Soundwriting Process

Where are you in your soundwriting process?

• I am now done with everything and I have finished recording the radio segment

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

• I am now done with everything and I have finished recording the radio segment

What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far?

• I think that one of my biggest challenges when it came to writing this script was finding information about the form I chose. Unfortunately, I failed to check how accessible information on this form was when I first chose to write about it and I had an extremely hard time finding relevant information. I actually had to start my script all over entirely after finding that I didn’t have enough information about the form to make it to only nine minutes.

1. How do you feel about that?

• I feel a little frustrated that I didn’t think to research before I chose the final form I was going to write about. It cost me a lot of time and effort doing research for a form that doesn’t have much in the way of accessible information. I wish I had just taken some time in the beginning to research before I chose so that I could have saved myself some time and aggravation.

What have you learned so far?

1. I honestly learned a lot about list poetry, I had never heard about it before, which is surprising with how much historic relevance it had within poetry and society, specifically early on. While researching this form I was shocked at how much it did in history and how I never learned about it, even in passing.

What ideas did you grapple with?

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

• Luckily I was about to find different ways to go about researching List poetry, I used other key words and authors/ pieces in order to find more relevant information on the form.

1. How might you overcome the challenges and struggles?

• I used other key words and phrases while researching, alongside relevant pieces of literature and historical figures in order to find far more relevant information than what I had started off with.

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

• As mentioned previously, I actually re-started my script from scratch. I disliked how it flowed and how it wasn’t getting the point I was trying to convey correctly. I chose to completely ditch my original and delve much deeper into research before starting all over again. I think this really aided in the end product and I am much happier with the new version over the original.

What is the next step in your composing process?

• I am glad to say I am all done so I have nothing more to do with the composing process.

1. What do you need to do, know, and write?

• While I have nothing more to do or learn, I am very happy that I was able to learn about such an influential poetic form and chose the form that I did.

Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:

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

• I think that I did a relatively good job in maintaining a clear and clean process when it came to writing my script. While I did hit some bumps in the road and I had to ditch certain aspects of it that I was excited about, I think that in the end I was successful in conveying what I wanted to convey.

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

• I would like to think that I wrote something that would be engaging enough to keep someone entertained for fifteen minutes. I stressed about the importance of my form and how it is important to learn and remember it so that it isn’t lost to history

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

• I feel that I did a good job in properly separating all of the topics I wanted to talk about. I separated List poetry into close to three defined topics: the introduction on the form/ the history of the form, Walt Whitman and how he revolutionized List poetry as a whole, and modern day/ contemporary list poetry and how it has changed throughout time.

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

• I feel as though I did a good job in clearly portraying what I was trying to convey verbally. I made sure to repeat pert phrases and notions for the form throughout the piece, ensuring that important details weren’t forgotten later on in the radio show. I also used verbal inflections in order to highlight and enhance certain aspects of important information.