Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Magazine Reflection part Two

1. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what improved? How did it get better? Why?
What improved mostly in my writing throughout this year including my Internship photo essay, was my transitions between paragraphs. At first I had thought I needed most help with this, but it turned out that this was my strongest part of my writing in this project. Compared to my previous H2O photo essay i thought that this had really shown a lot of improvement.

2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why?
Something I feel I need improvement in is my punctuation's. Although i don't feel I'm horrible in this part of writing, i could defiantly improve in it. What will probably help me improve my punctuation's is going through books, magazines, or even newspapers and specifically looking at the different ways punctuation is used.

3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc.

4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Magazine Reflection

1. What went well for you during the process of creating this magazine?
Something that went well for me throughout the process of this magazine was my relation between my writing and my pictures. I had first started writing my essay and then took the pictures so I could relate them to my writing.

2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product?
Some challenges I had was getting my rough drafts critiqued and edited because of being absent. Another challenge i had was getting enough pictures, because I had 6paragraphs but only 5 pictures that i liked.

3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work?
An example that i took was actually from a previous photo essay of mine. We also had gotten a lot of examples in class from different magazines such as the New York Times. I thought the magazines were helpful because it helped with the alignment and organization of my photo essay.