Digication ePortfolio :: WRD Curated Digital Portfolio

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One challenge in describing your writing process in a way that's visually and logisitically coherent and explanatory is how to present drafts, changes you made in those drafts, and your reflections on that process.

Using Digication's table-and-columns feature, you can exploit the colums to show drafts in one column and your discussion and reflections in another column. Your readers can then read your work and your discussion of it side by side.

Please note that to enable the columns feature, go to this link and enable the text editor. After you enable the text editor, log out of Digication, restart your browser, and log back in. On your toolbar will now see an Insert Table command:

Important: Once you have inserted your table, note the Table Cells Properties icon, which is more powerful than it looks:

Use Table Cells Properties and the Table Cells Properties > Advanced tab to align your text horizontally, or vertically; to add color to tables, cells, and backgrounds.

Now you are in a position to imagine some creative problem-solving strategies for a perpetual challenge: how to visually represent your writing process:

A table caption might go here -- for digital portfolio purposes, you can productively use this space to introduce drafts, your processes, and what readers might look for in annotations, in the right-hand column, below.


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Revised Title:

"From What, Exactly, Can Style Save Us?"

Description: a brief overview that includes the context and goals of the assignment

In my essay's second draft, I incorporated some helpful peer and instructor feedback:

In a peer-review session in class, Melissa pointed out to me that I should include some demographic information about the New York Times, since it is so easily available, and that's whay advertisers and marketing professionals use to make ad-placement decisions -- you can see that added material at the ned of paragraph #2, with a new and super-compelling paragraph transition to paragraph #3.
In our individual conference, Michael suggested comparing an article on "Style & Art" that appeared in the 11/01/10 edition of the New York Times, just as I was revising my article, comparing it to the "liberal-bias" material often associated with theNew York Times. And the The St. Martin's e-Handbook was particularly helpful here, especially section 11.a on the purposes of an argument. (quote)
I revised my title -- from "Can Style Save Us?" to "From What, Exactly, Can Style Save Us?" -- in order to make more out of my conclusion, as was able to ask readers to consider the rhetorical and cultural aspects of "style." You can see that changed reflected in both my title and in my conclusion. I finally settled on the title "From What, Exactly, Can Style Save Us?: A Rhetorical Analysis of the New York Times Style Section"
Finally, I was thinking about our class discussion onthe importance of connecting with readers, acknowledging their interests and biases, and revised my conclusion so as to more directly relate to their potentiall concerns and questions

Significance: a description of how the experience is relevant to the ‘big picture’ ‐ larger ideas, systems, institutions and/or events

Skills gained: a description of the type of work and what was learned at the time of the experience

Lessons Learned: a description of how the learning gained in the experience connects to other areas of your academic, professional, creative, or community life

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My Writing Process