Revision Project
To Whom This May Concern...
The Revision Project called for me to revisit a piece I wrote within the last four years and revise it substantially for a new audience and/or purpose. The options included taking an essay I wrote my first year and revising it into a case study research project in my major, or it could have involved taking a SWOT or IMRD report and revising it as a long-form journalistic piece—the new genre, audience, and purpose were entirely up to me. The length of this revision depended on the genre and audience, but I spent 4-6 hours on this revision.
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For my revision piece, I took what was once my grammar and style manifesto and turned it into a letter to a curious or new writer in the DU community. I talk about my experience as a used-to-be timid writer and what changed for me over the past four years.
Deconstruction Project
Manifesto Deconstruction
For this assignment, I selected one piece I wrote during my time at DU and provided commentary on passages and moments in the text that reveal my purposeful choices in writing the piece. The deconstruction project allowed me to reflect on my own writing which I sometimes forget the importance of doing. We live in a busy world and taking the time to sit down with your own work is at the bottom of our list. I typically aim to cross it off my list, but this assignment made me appreciate the work even more so.