Processed Notes

Where are you in your songwriting process?
What’s been done and what’s still left to do?
Everything has been done and my final has been submitted.
What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?
How do you feel about that?
My biggest accomplishment is staying on schedule with getting everything done. My biggest failure is when doing the recording I talked in a quiet voice. I don’t feel too bad about my failure because public speaking is a weakness of mine and I was able to do the whole thing without stuttering or messing up too badly.
What have you learned so far?
I have learned how to analyze poems and find the meaning behind the poems. I also have learned about the many different forms of poetry, especially organic form because it was the one I did my research on. All poems have different structures and ways of being written.
What ideas did you grapple with?
The ideas that I grappled with was how to make my script sound more like me talking then me reading straight from a paper.
Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?
The problems that I have solved were making sentences shorter and putting in filler words to keep the readers interested.
How might you overcome the challenges and struggles?
I overcame my struggles and challenges by reading my piece out loud multiple times and listening to the recordings. I also took time to let the piece sit and then came back to it another time to get more insight on it.
What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?
The decisions that emerged when working on the project was spending time on it while also studying and doing projects for other classes at the same time.
What is the next step in your composing process?
What do you need to do, know, and write?
My last step on composing this project before recording was making sure everything made sense and that I read it at the right pace where I would reach my 15 minute mark.
Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:
How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?
I feel good about my progress towards achieving my purpose of getting it to 15 minutes.
How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?
I feel good about my progress towards affecting my audience in the sense where I think I will be able to keep everyone engaged throughout my segment in the radio show.
How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?
I felt pretty good about getting my work done in time and making sure the content was in the right place. Some parts were more stressful than others but I got it done.
How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?
I also feel good about the progress towards the following expectations. I think I did everything that I was supposed to do.