erin

@ef7687

media arts major, loves movies

112 posts

My Essay Writing Process

What I am most proud of with my writing process is how I was able to start this project very early. Knowing my exam schedule, I started working on my essay a few weeks ago and it really paid off. I added information little by little when I had time which really helped me build up my points. I was also able to go back to previous things I wrote and fixed them.

What I Like About My Essay

What I like most about my essay is how honest I was able to be. In my essay, I explained the struggles I had with writing Tumblr posts or working on assignments in this course. I liked how I was able to really explain my writing process rather than explain it in a basic way. This was very important because I was able to figure out more about how I am as a writer and a person.

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What is creativity?

Creativity is when you use your imagination in order to come up with new ideas, especially in regards to writing, art, or content creation. So creativity could be writing up a story that doesn't exist yet, creating a prop for a cosplay, or creating a new dance to a trending audio on TikTok.

Love this! Creativity is amazing! You have some great examples!

What is Content

Content is anything you want it to be. We see content every day. It is all around us. Social media has so many different forms of content. From videos, to blogs, there are a ton of types of content that are in the world. That is great, we need differences in our content.

Content is so important! I love that we all can enjoy our own separate content.

My Writing Process

My writing process will consist of using bullet points and subheadings to separate all my early data. This helps me get all my thoughts down to prepare me for the next step. Then, I flesh out my bullet points into full sentences. I use transitions to connect my points together. Then, I get peer revisions on my draft and I use them to finish my work.

Writing Demonstrating Creativity

My writing demonstrates creativity because I am able to put my own words into my essay. With this class, I am able to make my essay make the most sense to me. I use my own preparation process to aid my writing and I figure out what best works for me when I am revising my work. I think this is important because everything you write should reflect you and your writing process.

Understanding Communication

I can understand communication by using social media everyday. I am able to communicate with so many people through social media, whether it’s for this class or in my own personal time. In this class, I communicate with my peers by reblogging their posts and giving them feedback. Communication is crucial to my everyday life.

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A piece of created content that I am the most proud of is the pfp I created for my fake Instagram. I felt that creating a convincing pfp would allow the fake Instagram content to really stand out in the hypothetical context of the How to Write Guide.

I love this! I love how much detail you put into this design.

How do you Understand Communication

I understand communication by reading the room. When I am talking to people, I try to understand how they feel. I don’t like when there’s tension in a room. That is why reading the room is so important. It’s good to understand how the people you are conversing with feel.

This is so true! I do the same exact thing!

Understanding Creativity

I can understand creativity by engaging myself in creative processes every day. For example, I edit videos for my job. I am able to use my creativity everyday in the videos I create. This is important to me because it helps me with creating content and also helps me with testing my skills.

Peer Feedback 2

Do you all think I need more information for this tip?

I think this is great! I like how you added the chart.

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

I think a good revision process will definitely develop overtime but it is important to know to strengthen your writing and critique yourself. As I develop as a young professional I will hopefully make more mistakes but I want to get to the point where I can catch my own mistakes. Eventually I hope to make content to help build brands and that has be able to boost brand awareness and generate leads.

I agree! A good revision process is crucial to strengthening your writing.

Feedback

I created my How to Write Guide on Google Slides. I wanted to ask if this is the best way to show my tips and tricks. I used Google Slides when we did our TV Production Co. project and I thought it worked well. I wanted to see what everyone else was doing to ask if it was the most productive way to explain my tips and tricks and show my created content.

Feedback

For my How to Write Guide, I used these screenshots from Instagram to show how using broad hashtags is important. It shows that using a nonspecific hashtag leads to less results than using a more broad 'umbrella' hashtag. I wanted to ask if you think this shows my point? Is it easy to understand or should I use another example?

Feedback

This is my intro slide for my How to Write Guide. I wanted to ask if my explanation of content strategy was enough for my content. My content is about hashtags and their effect on engagement. What I figured out through my data was that hashtags do not have a big effect on the engagement (likes and comments) of Instagram posts. Is there more I should add that will be a better intro to my How to Write Guide?

Tips and Tricks

A tip that I am offering in my guide that I think is useful to all of us as social media users is to use hashtags wisely. My research question was all about hashtags and how effective they are in gaining engagement on Instagram. For this, I explained that using hashtags in your text is very useful. For example, you could write ‘The movie #Titanic has #LeonardoDiCaprio and #KateWinslet

Content Creation for Me

For me, content creation went very well. I used Instagram which was very familiar to me. I found a website that created fake Instagram posts that you can easily edit, which worked perfectly. I used my posts that show that hashtags did not have a huge effect on the engagement of Instagram posts. I was able to show that by creating posts with no hashtags, some hashtags, and a lot of hashtags. I was able to also create a random number of likes and comments to show how there was no effect.

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