Project 3 Reflection: Detail

When our class was presented to do this project I was, again, feeling kind of lost. What was I going to do my project on? That is always one of the hardest parts when it comes to doing all of these project this semester. At first, I thought about doing my project on Greek life as a whole. I later realized that I am not an expert on fraternities and fraternities and sororities have their differences as well. I really liked the idea of doing an audio essay. I already have had a lot of experience with using GarageBand and so I enjoyed editing my recordings. When it came to writing the rough draft of the script, I thought I was going in the right direction. I wrote about why sororities are great and mentioned all of the counter arguments and refuted them. I also touched on why girls should consider going through sorority recruitment. Later I realized that I should have focused more on sororities and their importance to Arizona State University.  I found the interviews to be easy as well. The only tough part about the interviews was recording them. The girls that I interviewed were so nervous and we had to re-do the recordings a few times over. When I was writing my first draft I didn’t use an interview using a student that was not involved in Greek life, so for my final draft I used an opinion from a student that was not involved in Greek life. I feel like the use of an outsider really made my argument stronger. The peer-review suggestions that I got said that I needed to focus more on detail and create a stronger argument. I think that I did a good job at stating all the facts and all the “so whats” for my final script and recording. I learned how to stay more on topic. I also learned how to incorporate interviews into my writing. Before, I didn’t know how I was going to put in the interviewees’ responses. After talking to my peers I got more of a feel for how to make my script have a nice flow with my parts and the parts with my interviewees’ responses. Overall, I do feel as though I made a very strong argument by using my interviews as well as many different examples. I think that I can apply this project to the real world as a possible tool for a future career because I really like working with this kind of technology or I can simply record anything that I want to keep and refer back to. I really enjoyed working on this project and it has definitely been my favorite project that we have done in English 101 this semester.