I believe that we have hall used the five functions of writing which Tierney and Pearson talk about. Those five functions of writing are planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring. I want to say that I used all of these functions in some way or the other but I am not very sure…so let’s see.
In the Wikipedia process, I know I used planning but not as in depth as Tierney and Pearson describe it as. I simply heard about my subject and ran with the idea. I don’t believe I did any self-questioning about the topic but I did have to evaluate the Knowledge I had on the subject. I really do feel like I accomplished the aligning phase, I feel like my page flows with the information presented. My first submission of my page to the Wikipedia Guardians was my drafting page, I took their feedback , revised the page for citation errors and other things that needed to be worked on in my page. I honestly felt like the revising stage was the most frustrating. I would feel like my article was 100% ready to go, then I’d submit it for review and have to go back and take care of more things the Wikipedia elders didn’t approve. After all this I feel like a was constantly monitoring my page. I think these five functions of writing can go in sequence, but I also feel like the five functions can repeat and overlap themselves as well.
Definitely some overlap in the 5 functions.. i agree with you there. And revising was also a pain for me as well, dropping a few sources, searching for even more credible ones, and then just plain old writing errors I had to waste time searching for and fixing took forever. But overall I think it sounds like you used all five functions in your article
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with you that the five functions can repeat and overlap themselves. I felt like the aligning and revising stages kind of go hand-in-hand. These is because as I align my writing into more understandable sentences and paragraphs and put order to my writing I also check for grammatical and logical errors.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do enjoy making spontaneous decisions in my daily life, something of the caliber of Wikipedia proved to be a much more challenging opponent. Perhaps you were lucky. Regardless, the planning phase in undeniably the most pertinent out of the 5, well, at least in my opinion. However, I will agree with you on the point that there seems to be some overlap within the five functions. Some processes can be done independent of others, while other processes seem to work simultaneously with others.
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