Reflection on Project 3

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In this blog post, I will reflect on my project 3 based on the questions from page 520 of Writing for Public Lives.

1. What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
• I changed the goal of my argument to be more truly causal and to make my argument overall much stronger.
2. Point to global: how did you reconsider your thesis or organization?
• Initially, I ineffectively mixed several different types. I think I subconsciously thought this would work well but it didn't. By realizing this and combining it with some hard facts and figures that adjusted my previous opinions a bit, I was able to come up with a more convincing and well rounded argument. 
3. What led you to these changes? A reconsideration of Audience? A shift in purpose?
• As I already mentioned, a shift in purpose drove the majority of these changes as well as substantive changes in how I approached my argument.
4. How do these changes affect your credibility as an author?
• Overall, I think these changes have improved my credibility as an author as I was able to come up with a more nuanced and developed view and created better devices to convince my readers of my view.
5. How will these changes better address the audience or venue?
• The changes have not really effected the audience or the venue besides working to be more convincing as I already mentioned. Otherwise, these aspects are pretty much unchanged.
6. Point to local changes: how did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
• I revised several sentences to flow better throughout the piece. It is hard to point to particular things in this regard as I did this in a sort of gradual incremental way by reading and re-reading the entire piece a number of times and making little changes each time.
7. How will these changes better address the audience in understanding your purpose?
• I think these changes did not so much make my purpose easier to understand but rather easier to accept and agree with.
8. Did you have to reconsider the conventions of the particular genre in which you are writing?
• I did not have to reconsider any conventions but in my final draft I did add appropriate (and cited!) images as well as hyperlinks. 
9. Finally, how does the process of reflection help you reconsider your identity as a writer?
• I think the process of reflection lets you examine what you actually did when you write something so you can identify strengths and weaknesses and hopefully build on them.