Blog Post #3 (due Thursday, May 6)

Writer’s Blog Prompt #3

Reflecting on Revision
OR
Your Pick

DUE: Thursday, May 6—please have it posted before class time, as we’ll be referring to blog posts IN CLASS. We will comment during class, though, so no need to worry about that step for now.

This post offers you a couple of options. You only need to complete one of them.

Option 1:

The goal of this post is to encourage you to think a little bit about how far you’ve come on your RAP…and where it might go in the future! Even more, you can share insights with your peers that might very well help them with their own writing.

Think about the various drafts you have completed of your academic research project, and answer some (or all!) of these questions. Remember to write in a way consistent with the blogging voice you’ve established so far—so really make these questions your own!

• How has your writing process on your RAP been both similar to and different from your other writing experiences?
• What has changed about your project? What has been added? What’s been removed? Why did you make those decisions?
• How did you go about revising your work? What strategies of revision worked for you? What was especially challenging?
• In a perfect world, what would you still like to revise about your paper?
• And, as we look toward our upcoming work on Commonplace, how might you re-imagine and revise your work for that public audience? What could you focus on? What might you leave in? What might get booted? How might your tone change? In short, how will you make your academic topic timely, relevant, and compelling for a public audience?

Option 2:

It’s your blog. Write what you want. This is your chance to blog about anything and everything that’s important to you. Go get ‘em, tiger.