Process Memo

Daniel Stieler

Lauren Rinke

Composition 150

10-11-12

Process Memo

Writing my literacy narrative was fun for me. I loved going back through pictures and remembering all those fun times. The hardest part for me was trying to really remember the very beginning of my literacy. It was hard to remember because I was so young and I don’t remember much from being that little. But I could remember some pieces and that’s what helped. One thing I realized that I never really thought of about my literacy is that I actually was being taught by my mom and grandma when they would read to me at night. I just thought they were reading to me to put me to sleep or calm me down but now I realize what it was all for. The one theme that I noticed about my writing was that my whole literacy came from books. I focused on talking about how my grandmas reading helped me learn at first and then once I learned then I increased my reading skills. It was really hard trying to pick what I should focus on because there’s so many possible ways to my own literacy that it’s hard to remember or figure out which one you think helped you the most. Creating the time line helped me a lot with this writing. It helped me remember everything that happened and how reading was fun for me and then how I lost interest. It helped me remember step by step what happened. Choosing what to focus on for my actual narrative writing wasn’t that hard for me. I basically narrowed it down in my timeline already so I knew that I was going to be writing about how reading got me to this point. When I started to write my paper I just organized it by my timeline that I used in class. I just took all the things I wrote in my timeline and elaborated on the events and gave some examples of events in my life. The peer review stage helped me a lot with my paper. It told me what I needed to fix or reword or what to add. There were some things that I had written that didn’t translate right when the other person read it so that helped so I could change it \. It also helped because there were a couple parts where I needed more detail for it to make sense and I didn’t do that so it helped just bring everything together. The peer review also really helped because they kind of helped us by underlining what they thing we should put into our videos so that helped a lot. When I did my final editing I really wasn’t thinking about making the video yet. I was just trying to make everything fit together and tell my story so that people could understand like I wanted them to. I think the sentences my partner chose were perfect. The sentences were the main points of my story and the sentences summarized the whole story so it was great. I used all mostly all of the sentences that she chose because I felt like they were the most important and the best ones to summarize my whole story. The most difficult thing out of my entire project was trying to get my sentences down to that 52-character max. I just felt like I couldn’t make sense of any of my sentences with that short of a text. That was the longest part of my whole project. The images that I used for my video where to kind of put a visual to what I was saying in the previous slide. The pictures that I used were mostly of me and my family but mixed in were some I had to get off of the computer. But it all just helped me describe more of what I was saying. The music was hard for me to make a connection to my video. I couldn’t really find anything that had a direct connection to it but the one I chose felt like it fit. It was kind of an upbeat and happy song which most of my story was happy. I feel like I did well for the most part. I know there are a couple slides that I wish I could rewrite or reword but everything thing else translate well for me and comes out just how I wanted it to.