Marvin Strauser

Millersville English Student

[zugzugwarrior]

what do you like most about your learning?

What I liked the most was learning the different terminology. I think everyone on the Internet has a little bit of understanding of these concepts. It's just that not everybody has the word to describe them. If one of your followers said "I didn't read this because it's too long" then you know you have to change the format for the audience. You just might not immediately think of them as web writing concepts.

[mastrausmv]

I think the terminology of the subject is such an invaluable piece of learning in every facet. The ability to talk about something only exists if you have the words with which to do so, or the contextual language available to you with which to discuss. There is an existent necessary information base in many cases around subjects that include certain terms and specific language used in relation to these subjects that it becomes a very important piece of conversations.

[kyost24]

What do you like the most about your responses to the questions?

How truthful I was in answering the questions. Looking back I’ve realized how much of a difference my writings were and the effort I had put in my writings before taking this class and enhancing my writing skills.

[mastrausmv]

Its interesting that you were able to see an effective noticeable difference in your writing, I commend that, I wouldn't say to me it was so much about focusing on truthful answers, but instead more about how effectively I have been taught that allows me to answer these questions.

[mastrausmv]

Original Content #3

what do you like most about your learning? I think the thing that I like most about my learning is being able to look at what we have been taught and effectively incorporate it into my everyday life. Things such as all of our information on writing and web writing, small things like information architecture may not be helpful to me now, and I don't know if they will be later, but its something that I have learned and enjoy being able to take forward as the continuance of the building up of knowledge is a very crucial piece of learning for me.

[mastrausmv]

Original Content #2

what do you like most about your learning?

The most important thing about learning for me is to come out of a class, seminar, or lesson, with more information that can effectively help me in future endeavors. This information can either be agnostic in nature of subject, in things like personal learnings, or lessons that are subjective and situational knowledge for the field itself, to things that may be helpful in conversations and other facets of life.

[mastrausmv]

Original content #1

what do you like the most about your responses to the interview questions? I think that the best thing about my responses is my ability to effectively answer them with knowledge and experience from this class in regards to the prompt itself while also incorporating my opinion on the questions posed to create a effective answer overall.

[mastrausmv]

Thursday check in

What assignment questions do you have that will help you complete the assignment successfully? I have a specific question pertaining to question number 4 of what is content final. I'm slightly confused on what exactly is being meant by genres that were added to our writing through the internet, is this instead meaning genres new to us or genres new to this field of writing I don't exactly understand. @npfannen

[way-to-gogh-art]

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

Drafting across multiple weeks lets me get peer feedback more easily. It is nice to be able to post my questions and ask for feedback, but doing this across multiple weeks gives my peers time to give me feedback. This means I get more feedback and hopefully reach more of my peers.

Drafting across multiple weeks also lets me set my project aside. Working on this whole project at once would make me overwhelmed and I would have a bad product at the end. Being able to set the project aside and come back with fresh eyes has really helped my process.

What other ways did drafting over multiple weeks help you?

[mastrausmv]

i think that indeed drafting across multiple weeks lets you get more feedback, but i think in reality it is more prominent that we get multiple weeks of professor's academic revision's, as feedback from the person who is going to be grading each part of this is the most effective way to continue constructing a strong project.

[tori-aiello]

Week 13 Prompt 3

Prompt: Post an image of an element of your Content Analysis that needs input from your peers. Post an image AND request the feedback you want. 

Response: From this chart can you tell that the content type is being matched with the number of engagement from the creators posts? 

[mastrausmv]

This is interesting i think we can indeed tell what type of content is being matched, but are these actually engagements per content type ? and if so would it be better to put these as engagement rates instead of the large numbers instead, and if this is just views it might be better to categorize the graph as such.

[emcampbelll]

What did you learn about your writing process?

I learned that my writing process works best when I get early feedback and revise often. I used to write assignments in one sitting, but this class showed me that returning to a draft multiple times helps me build stronger ideas and clearer explanations. I also realized that visual organization, like headings, charts, and structured sections helps me stay focused and communicate more effectively. After college, this process will help me in professional settings where writing needs to be polished, organized, and audience-aware, especially when creating reports, emails, or presentations.

[mastrausmv]

hi, i agree that the writing process feels the most effective when you are able to consistently get effective feedback that is able to allow you to continuously hone one piece of work over a course of a long period of time. I also used to write assignments in one sitting, but i would not say that this class has changed that as much, as the way that its writing process was laid out did, because if in the future another class does not afford the same lengthy time periods, then they likely hood of such a long draft and revision period is low.

[mastrausmv]

Original Content #3

Peer review request Do we think this is an effective infographic in terms of he engagement rate that each receives per post and as the paragraph describes it. Would it be more effective to use some other type of graph such as an actual point graphing table to show and potentially more effectively elaborate on the fact that indeed the one content creator is an outlier that should be addressed, or is that something I could add in conjunction with this visual aid, or is it not needed because I do believe that a point graph of these could be effective as well i just wonder if its overzealous.

[mastrausmv]

Original content #2

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

I don't believe that I will be pursuing a field focused on writing in my future endeavors even though I am currently pursuing an English degree. Because of that, i don't think that my learned process of writing will help me after college. I did learn though that a well afforded length of drafting period will hopefully lead to an effective project submission, and will hope that any future project timelines in college will be the same way.

[mastrausmv]

Original content #1

what did you learn about drafting across multiple weeks that will inform your writing process after college I think it is hard to say that anything i learned in this class in terms of multi week drafts will be effective in informing my after college career path going forward. In truth my plans after this are not necessarily related to my degree, and i don't assume myself to be working in a field where multi week writing projects will exist or be necessary. If anything though what i learned is how effective it can be to have a multi week drafting process, IF AND ONLY IF, you actually have a good feedback loop that you can trust, something such as a partner, teacher, or boss to effectively guide you in the right direction with concerned projects after showing your current progression. I say this because of the ability during these feed back loops to nip mistakes in the bud and more effectively complete said project.

[breckenmacdougall]

Original Content Writing #3

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

Having a good revision process will help me moving forward beyond this class because it gives me the skills to properly revise my own writing. It is important to be able to read and revise your writing, whether you are typing an email or an essay, so that you can ensure that your words effectively and accurately communicate the information that you are trying to portray. By revising your writing, you can improve your writing to ensure that the final product is the best that it can be and that it is able to effectively communicate your information to your audience in a way that is easy for them to understand and gets your point across.

[mastrausmv]

I think that yes in this case the revision process is easily accessible and able to be used by all students, but I think that is only necessarily the case because we have feedback to work on. Of course we are revising this project ourselves but doing so with the guidelines and feedback that the professor is giving out for us week over week.

[dearcher]

Prompt 2: how are you developing style to build your argument in the content analysis?

My style is still a working progress but I am trying to develop it more and more as I develop these drafts. I believe my style is more content based and I try to go into more detail about the content I am studying for the research paper. Since my paper is in content creators, it makes more sense for my style to be developed around explaining content and what kind of content I am collecting data for. This helps me build my argument and what I am trying to accomplish for this research topic.

[mastrausmv]

I agree, to me this for project it is also very content based as I am attempting to closely follow our guidelines which is effectively a content guide in terms of this project, so it is much more content based in that sense.

[dearcher]

Prompt 3: how will having a good revision process help you moving forward beyond this class?

Having a good revision process will help me build my analysis on papers even after this class. My revision process will help me strengthen my paper, making it easier for me to write and organize my papers in a way that makes sense not only to me but my audience as well. The point is to be precise and also creative so my content will be easier for my audience to digest. I believe that if I keep doing this, it will help me outside of this class as well. And it will help me when I’m writing content for a different type of audience.

[mastrausmv]

I agree to say that indeed it will help us so much outside of just this class and even when specifically speaking to different audiences and more this type of revision process is massively helpful. But, its only that I think if it is accompanied by someone or some arbitration entity grading/ giving feedback to your work to really help that revision process be effective.

[mastrausmv]

Original Content #3

what does your final revision process look like? My final revision process is a lot of looking at the guidelines and any and all feedback I have received to attempt to continue crafting my essay/project to the best of my ability. Since we have yet to submit this weeks and received feedback it would be to have this weeks work submitted and sent back to see exactly what it is that is missing overall to be able to specifically focus on that.

[mastrausmv]

Original Content#2

how are you developing style to build your argument in the content analysis? I would not say that there is any overt additional stylistic components of my writing. This is far away from anything creative that I would be adding stylistically and falls heavily into the realm of academic analysis, thus it is without many if any stylistic choices, other than the required parts of style such as subheadings and graphs, which I just use the default ones of those. Otherwise my writing remains purely academic attempting to fulfill the paper requirements.