I do think I write differently than the beginning of the semester. I was writing assignments for assignments but now, I think more before starting to write. I think about the genre, the rhetorical situation so that it decides my style and tone of writing. Although I was doing this before I took this class, I only think about the tone of writing. Now, I know why I would do this. In the concept of genre, I would write in different way as different genres for my project in school or after graduated.
The developing of the schema is worth of the time. We had to do research on the genre in order to develop the schema. In the process of doing this, I became an expert of the genre. It’s similar in program to make an “abstract class” which is a frame of something that can be used in similar situations. Writing in XML is an interesting concept for a writing class. Normally, I think writing is less technical and I was wondering that if I can learn something useful for my future from this class. However, the first thing that I learned was the language of XML. As an info science student, I learned many programming languages but I didn’t have any chance to know XML. The format of writing in XML is always a guide and frame for me to write. I was trained to create a frame before writing in China so I think writing in XML is familiar and useful.
For all three projects, I liked the second one most. I enjoyed doing a research on one type of genre and I did not have any experience on it before the project. Feasibility report is a useful genre for me as an info science student no matter I work for a company or start my own business in the future but I didn’t have a chance to get familiar with this type of genre. The least favorite project is the project 1. I didn’t have a clear definition of my major yet and most of my major courses are computer science related. I haven’t had a chance to take IS classes yet and I can’t distinguish two majors and I don’t know what kind of jobs are designed for IS students. All my Co-ops were CS jobs, I felt a little bit hard to get a discipline topic for the assignment. The time is a little bit tight that I didn’t have a chance to be in a study-pace. The writing of design entry is helpful that I need to keep writing in paragraphs at a rate of one per three days so that I won’t forget how to write for a writing class. Also, design entry normally helps me to think about the projects and readings and the process of assignments. It helps me to know more about the expect on assignments.
I’m going to think about the rhetorical situation and add some peer review when I write for the future projects. Thinking about rhetorical situation helps me decide my tone and style about my writing and the genre of the writing. Adding peer review is useful because the comment from classmates shows different understanding on the assignments and makes me rethink about my writing.
