Revision Plan and Reflection Essay

For my two revised pieces, I chose to revise Piece 5, the "My Own Piece," and Piece 4, the "Multimodal Piece." The reason I chose Piece 5 was mainly because I did not finish it the first time, and also I felt what I did write of it could have been written better anyhow. I chose to revise Piece 4 because I felt that my video could have turned out better, and I think there could have been more added to it, such as music in the background that goes along with the subject.

For Piece 5, the assignment was to create your own piece; the only requirement was that it had to involve another assignment given previously in the semester. So, for my piece I chose to take the online discussion board assignment where we each put up a discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21^st Century, and write a sort of essay extending my thoughts on the topic: I wrote part of it but did not finish. So, when I go to do my revisions, I plan to take what I wrote for the online assignment and what I wrote for Piece 5 originally and sort of combine them, adding more detail in my descriptions of literacy and why technology is necessary for it. I plan to fully flesh out and complete my thoughts in my revision, and the result should be much better written than the working draft.

For Piece 4, the requirement was to make a piece on any subject you are passionate about, and it had to somehow be “multimodal”—that is, it had to include some type of media other than writing. So, I chose to make sort of a video/slideshow about drinking and driving, and put certain facts and statistics with pictures; also I told the tragic story of Jacqui Saburido and her fatal accident due to drinking and driving. However, I did not get to add music like I wanted to—I felt that that would have added a more emotional effect to the video—and some parts of the video cannot be clearly seen because of the font I used. Also, I did not complete the essay that was to go along with it explaining the choices I made in my multimodal piece. So, upon revising this piece I plan to add and fix those things I wanted to add and fix, and to complete the essay to go along with it.

            In conclusion, I will be revising Piece 5 and Piece 4 from this semester, because on both of them I did not finish a part that was crucial. Also, on Piece 5 I wanted to improve the writing I completed, and on Piece 4, I wanted to add and change a few minor things in the video as well.