Brendan Colbert

Information Technology Student

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What do I like most about my responses?

I think I like how insightful my responses are to the interview questions. I feel that I provide depth in my answers that show care and intent.

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What do I like most about my learning?

What I have found is that the teachings from this course are transferable outside of writing and can be skills applied to many aspects of life. Like learning how to interpret data and communicate are very important skills that you will use anywhere.

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What are you most proud of with your writing process?

I am most proud of how I can quickly come up with an outline from virtually nothing and create writing in a flow state. I feel that I have greatly improved in my organization and my drafting process altogether. I am most proud that I continue to improve.

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Thursday Check-in

A question I have about writing skill development is, How do I continue to develop as a writer outside of a school setting? I will be taking only one more writing course after this course. After that, it is unlikely that I will take another writing course. What are some ways to continue to improve writing skills outside of an educational setting? @npfannen

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How will having a good revision process help you moving forward beyond this class?

Having a good revision process is important becaus it will help you notice flaws and leave you striving to improve. Being able to access and notice your own mistakes is important so that you have a chance to correct them yourself.

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How are you developing style to build your argument in the content analysis?

I develop style by using rehetroical choices that strengthen the clarity, credibility, and overall persuasiveness of my argument. It is also shaped by the expectations of content strategy research,

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what does your final revision process look like?

At this point in the draft, all of my content should be written. I will read through the entire draft and address any mistakes after my read throught. Here I'd be looking at mechanical, grammatical errors, and just making sure the whole paper is cohesive and is the final product that I want.

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Content Analysis Peer Review Question

Here is a screenshot of my Introduction for the project. It is short and concise. My question is, after reading the introduction, can you expect what you will be reading in this essay? Is the introduction to vague and needs further direction?

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What did you learn about your writing process that will help you after college?

I learned that I have found a method of writing that feels the most natural to me, and sticking to that process is what allows me to yield my best work. I have learned that my writing quality is much higher when I write in chunks/blocks. This process will help me beyond college because when applicable, breaking down largeer tasks and projects into chunks and blocks will make them much easier to manage.

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What did you learn about drafting across multiple weeks that will inform your writing process after college?

I learned that having ample time to draft allows me to write my ideas more clearly and be more organized in my writing. Whereas not having as much time or crunching at the deadline makes my writing feel rushed/forced, and it is not nearly as polished. Drafting multiple times allows for deep revision to make sure I'm displaying the message I want to tell.

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How do these data elements answer your research question?

The data elements directly answer my research question by showing how each creator’s content genre influences audience engagement which also reflects the expectations of their discourse community. By breaking the posts into genres and comparing average likes, comments, and shares, the data reveals which content structures successfully promote audience participation.

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What are your ideas/suggestions for graphing your data so it's reported in multiple, meaningful ways? 

One of my main goals for presenting the data in a meaningful way is to graph it from an analytical angle as opposed to a single view of engagement. For example, using a bar chart to compare the number of likes by genre offers a level of understanding of which content types work best for each creator.

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How am I using Dr. P to work through draft 2?

I am using Dr. P's comments to make crucial changes to my draft. I am using them to guide me in the right direction as well as create a proper structure for my project. The comments have also have helped me form a question and hypothesis with clear direction

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Where am I with drafting?

At this stage, I have started to draft my Method section, data and content analysis, and audience analysis. I have also created graphs and have begun to analyze them as well. I currently have them just pasted at the end of my content analysis section, I plan to format/ place them in their respective places once I finish the other sections. The introduction will be the last section that I write, because I find it easier to write once I know what the rest of my paper looks like.

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what subheading will you use that helps design this information architecture most efficiently, why?

I will use subheadings such , "Introduction," "Method," "Data Analysis" and so on, so that it is easy for the reader to navigate and can easily find whatever information they would like to find in the paper. It is also important to have effective subheadings so the reader can easily refer to other sections when comparing other material.

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What is content strategy? How will you use this in your Content Analysis Project? 

I have defined content strategy as the intentional use of tone, visuals, and messaging to effectively communicate with your target audience to achieve the creator's goals. I am using this definition to help fortify my data and audience analysis in support of my hypothesis and research question

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How Will My Research Question add to the ongoing conversation about content Strategy?

My research question is as follows, "How do football commentators on Instagram vary their content strategies in posts that receive different levels of likes, comments, or shares?"

I am directly comparing the number of likes, comments, and or shares to the variance of content strategies used