COURSE WRITING 2 ORIGINAL:

Some difficulties I faced in composing the Project 3 drafts were collecting responses to the survey artifact or determining whether or not I had enough data to make a conclusion. I would have probably chosen an informative article over a satire article, given the choice to go back, as I am not quite sure of my ability to write satire yet and was not sure if it was really funny or if I was just writing something silly that did not make any sense whatsoever. I also probably would have taken into account, as a whole, the number of new computer science majors going into machine learning, or machine learning as a subset of software engineering, and criticized that instead rather than just going after software engineering. There were a lot more people than I expected going into machine learning. I feel confident about the other two genres, though. I did not feel as if there were any particular difficulties in curating or creating the genres, or trying to pick between genres, as the genres were addressed well in class. I felt as if I was well-prepared to utilize all strategies, techniques, and ideas, but I wish we had gone over more visual composition when it came to specific genres, like film or political cartoons. These are neglected pieces of rhetoric, I feel, and a lot of emphasis was placed on textual rhetoric rather than focusing on certain pieces of how arguments could potentially be made. Otherwise, I thought the class did a terrific job of addressing the differences and potential strengths or potential weaknesses of certain genres, and I had almost no difficulty in picking one genre over another. I thought that the class activities were highly engaging with rhetoric and different methods of communicating certain parts to certain arguments.

COURSE WRITING 2 REVISED:

Some difficulties I faced in composing the Project 3 drafts were collecting responses to the survey artifact or determining whether or not I had enough data to make a conclusion. Looking back, I would have probably chosen an informative article over a satire article, as I am not quite sure of my ability to write satire yet and was not sure if it was really funny or if I was just writing something silly that did not make any sense whatsoever. There were a lot more people than I expected going into machine learning. I probably would have taken into account, as a whole, the number of new computer science majors going into machine learning and criticized that instead rather than just going after software engineering. This may have affected the way my intended audience perceived my argument, as they might not perceive machine learning as being part of software engineering and could disregard the message of the satire article. I also would have adjusted for each individual perspective on the overlap between certain professional categories; e.g., machine learning may be considered by some to be a subset of software engineering. I feel confident about the other two genres, though. I did not feel as if there were any particular difficulties in curating or creating the genres, or trying to pick between genres, as the genres were addressed well in class. I felt as if I was well-prepared to utilize all strategies, techniques, and ideas, but I wish we had gone over more visual composition when it came to specific genres, like film or political cartoons. These are neglected pieces of rhetoric, I feel, and I placed a lot of emphasis on textual rhetoric rather than focusing on certain pieces of how arguments could potentially be made. Otherwise, I thought the class did a terrific job of addressing the differences and potential strengths or potential weaknesses of certain genres, and I had almost no difficulty in picking one genre over another. I thought that the class activities were highly engaging with rhetoric and different methods of communicating certain parts to certain arguments.