Journal 20
I think it went really well. I got good feedback about paraphrasing and putting in important and powerful quotes over just a massive one. As well as finding my headline for my profile, instead of just “Profile”. This helps break down the massive paragraphs and helps me reformat my profile, making it have a sharper angle and edge to it.
Editorial Team Reflection
During this editory environment, my group discussed what in each of the Profiles that we each thought, the other group members needed to work on. We covered everything from moving certain quotes to help make the story telling aspects and angles easier to understand and read. As well as meet the need for quotes that are productive in making the story side of things more digestible and makes more sense, or stronger. Like in Tony’s essay he had a quote from a team member that is coached by Coach Viall who was what his profile was about. We had discussed about the placement of the quote might be more effective and better for the introductions of being placed after the nut graph, so it helps give Coach Viall character more and adds to how he aids players that he coaches. We discussed about quote Placement for Kayleigh’s conclusion as well as talking about how Caitlin could add a quote or move some around in hers. The main focus for our edits was changing, adding and paraphrasing quotes to help with which information was important to show, and captivating as a reader.
Profile Reflection: Overall
Overall my experience in this process has been ok. It was stressful. But I think that I learned valuable skills that I can use in what I eventually want to do. I think interviewing and being comfortable interviewing people for a profile is asking them questions about them. Which is important in figuring out what is happening. How being creative and credible are very important. I think that learning through writing this, report writing is a different level from academic and creative writing. It is like a mix of both which is very hard to obtain. But I think I’ve learn a bunch about it, which works for me. I think that next time, if I was to edit, write and workshop on similar projects I would definitely have a stronger skills and a better idea of how to start and what questions to ask in interview and how to write a narrative report of what is happening in which ever my pitch or angle takes in which ever direction.
