Process Notes Assignment
Where are you in your soundwriting process?
- What’s been done and what’s still left to do?
I have finished writing my script and recording my radio show at the station.
What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?
- How do you feel about that?
I think my biggest accomplishment was finding enough research on the topic for my project and script. My biggest failure while doing this project was when finding an outside audio to use, I had to look through and test out how several videos would work in my project before finding one that I liked.
What have you learned so far?
I’ve learned a lot about the found poetry form and its unique uses in health research, an area of study that I would have initially never expected to see it being used in.
What ideas did you grapple with?
- Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?
- How might you overcome the challenges and struggles?
As I said earlier, I found it difficult to find a video of a researcher explaining how they apply poetry to their work. Initially, I browsed YouTube to find a science researcher talking about using found poetry in their work, which is extremely specific, so I couldn’t find much. I overcame this by broadening my search and looking more into any type of poetry-incorporated research.
What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?
Aside from making an audio choice as I explained above, the only other decisions that have emerged lately are changes in word choice.
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What is the next step in your composing process?
- What do you need to do, know, and write?
I have finished composing and recording my radio show, so all that is left to do is my process notes. To complete this, I’ve just been thinking back to my composing process as a whole.
Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:
1)How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?
I feel good about achieving the purpose of my radio show. I think I provided enough information and thoroughly answered my main guiding question
2) How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?
I think the amount of information and examples I’ve provided makes the points I am trying to convey in my radio show persuasive to my audience
3) How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?
I feel that I have connected found poetry to its fairly recent and unique uses that are arising
4) How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?
I think I’ve done a good job of sharing and reinforcing the information in my radio show. While I do feel that my tone of voice was a little too monotonous at times, I also think that my topic required a more serious tone.
Works Cited:
American. “Found Poem.” Poets.org, 9 Nov. 2023, poets.org/glossary/found-poem. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
“Found Poetry, Found Hope: A Creative and Powerful Method for Sharing Health Research.” Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research, and Education, vol. 37, no. 4, Dec. 2024, pp. 267–76. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy.siena.edu/10.1080/08893675.2023.2285269.
“Poetics of Brittle Bone Disease: Using Found Poetry to Explore Childhood Bioethics.” Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research, and Education, vol. 35, no. 4, Dec. 2022, pp. 241–58. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy.siena.edu/10.1080/08893675.2022.2043120.
The Poetry Vlog. “What Is Poetic Inquiry Research Methodology? EXPLAINED by Dr. Camea Davis!” YouTube, 2 Feb. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXc2O16cfU
