Journal 2

This chapter had me feeling all sorts of different ways and I suppose that that’s probably a good thing since that seemed to be the theme. The thing that I found to be the most interesting was the concept of the shadow and the long bag that each of us carry around with us every … [Read more…]

Journal 1

One thing that really stuck out to me and surprised me about the interview with each artist was how many of them used technology and other digital forms of media in their work. Whenever I think of an artists’ book I imagine them being entirely crafted by hand using scrapbook-like techniques, but this is likely … [Read more…]

Journal 27

At the beginning of the semester I was pretty nervous about starting this class, primarily because I thought it was going to be overly challenging. I knew that developing strong professional and technical writing would be a valuable skill that would serve me in several ways throughout the rest of my college career and likely … [Read more…]

Journal 26

When we first started working on the news release I was kind of intimidated because based off of the book’s description, it requires very specific formatting and word choice to be effective without sounding too much like an advertisement. After going through the workshop process as a class and completing the project I definitely feel … [Read more…]

Journal 25

This chapter provided me with some very helpful information about group presentations, and how to make them as clean and effective as possible. The chapter first mentioned the importance of having a group leader, a designated member responsible for the organization of the presentation, the introduction, conclusion, and leading the question and answer portion. The … [Read more…]

My Role

My role in creating the news release for the Cleaning Critter was primarily about creating desire. At first this piece was hard for me to work on, as it goes hand in hand with the interest portion and therefore reflects the same ideas very closely. As a part of my role I took a step … [Read more…]

Reflection on Peer Review

Peer review definitely gave us some key things to work on during the editing process of our news release. For example, we moved around some of the paragraphs so that all of the important features were mentioned throughout the article, however they were made more concise so that it didn’t sound repetitive. We also added … [Read more…]