Process Notes

Jadyn Defayette

3 min readDec 4, 2025

Where are you in your soundwriting process?

I have completed my sounwriting process, and recorded and edited my final piece on Monday.

What’s been done and what’s still left to do?

Done: Writing process, Recording

Left to do: Listen to entire show, ensure free of errors

What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?

My biggest accomplishments are writing enough to hit the 15-minute mark, producing an interesting piece on a very interesting form of poetry, and even creating my own poem.

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A failure would be ensuring it was free from error when recording. Had I practiced a little more, editing would not have taken so long.

How do you feel about that?

I feel good about both, and that my failure was able to be fixed.

What have you learned so far?

I have learned that recording my own voice was not as scary as I thought, and I actually found it fun, and I liked that I could pick which form I could talk about.

What ideas did you grapple with?

I grappled with soundposts and speaking in a “we” tone or “I” tone at times. Some segments were audience-centered centered and others were more personal. I also grappled with an audio piece, which had a tiny bit of music, but it was incorporated within the poem, and able to be analyzed.

Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?

I have solved most issues and have no other problems

How might you overcome the challenges and struggles?

I overcame my anxiety by preparing and reading my script a few times. I should have done more to ease my nerves

What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?

I have decided to use two auid clips, which are short, but would entice listeners and break up the show a little bit.

What is the next step in your composing process?

I need to re-listen to my show before the final submission.

Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:

How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?

I feel that the purpose of my show, which is to educate and introduce and explain the Paradelle, has been accomplished.

How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?

I think that my audio clips and my own reading will intrigue the audience and keep them interested.

How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?

I think my show has completed this and that it is very timely and very contemporary, and the themes talked about can be related to.

How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?

I feel that my progress has been very good and it follows the expetctations of a student radio show. It has very clear sections, and includes some interesting ideas and explanations and hopes to spread the interest that the Paradelle creates for many.

“Love’s Lost Words: Billy Collins’s PARADELLE FOR SUSAN.” The Explicator, vol. 69, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 38–40. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy.siena.edu/10.1080/00144940.2011.578989.

Kathryn Stripling Byer Reads Years Away: Paradelle for Diminishment by Catherine Carter. Directed by NCArts, YouTube, 210 AD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEUkKCtV1A .