Saturday, December 1, 2007

Week 3 Pre-Writing Activity.

It's about time I got this posted up. Here it is:

Who is my audience?
My teacher, my peers, and myself to a degree.

What topic am I writing on?
Process Theory and how it applies to a process I've used in the past.

What effects do I want to have on my audience? Several things:

1. I want to communicate to my audience about a process they may not necessarily know about.

2. I want to explain what process theory and kaizen are, how they work, and how they apply to my process of choice.

3. I want to try and cement my own ideas of process theory and kaizen and how they work by writing and thinking about it.

What genre am I writing in? Academic/Formal Paper.

What can I say?
I am going to talk about the process I go through in doing research. I'll use doing research on AI as an example.

How do I organize what I say? I'll seperate the writing into three sections:

Introduction: These is where I will introduce process theory and kaizen, and explain what it is that I will be talking about.

Body: This is an in-depth explanation of my current research process and how I might improve it using process theory and/or kaizen.

Conclusion: Here I will give a brief summary of what was said in the body and tie up any loose ends the body may have left.

2 comments:

Jason Williams said...

Good post, Stephen! Your responses are to the point, but still effectively answer the questions. I don't really have much to add, but you did a nice job here.

Tony Kanaan said...

Stephen,
Good post, but I got to make at least one productive comment throughout this class.
I was thinking that it be nice if you further broke down your body section by brainstorming a few ideas that you would use in your essay to make up that section. For example you could write down your research process in bullet point format