Week 3 Essay Process

Who is your audience:

My audience is the Class and the instructor.

What goals do you want to achieve by producing your text?

My goal is to describe the process of a part of a video game. My major is Game Design and I try to apply all my assignments to Games in one way or another if at all possible.

What is your topic?

My topic is about becoming a Jedi in the MMO Star Wars Galaxies.

How will you organize the text?

I will organize the text like a game guide. I used to write them a lot when I was playing the game and post them on the forums.

The Process of how I like to write

What I do is basic, and simple. I start out with a blank page in word and just start thinking of what my topic is and what are some things I want to add to it and write them down. They don't have to be long some are just a couple words. All random and not in any order just bulleted points that I"m going to want to hit on in my report.

Next I will create an outline style of topics. This is where all the ideas that I just wrote down gets put in the right order to how it will get set up in the report. usually when doing this I think up some more ideas that will fit in and I put them in there places where they will fall in with the report.

The last step is to write it. I just follow the outline that I had set up and again usually doing this I keep thinking of more things that would make it better and just add them in when I'm writing. Then proof read a couple of times.

I know its not the most technical way of doing things but it helps me think things through.

Week 3

Who is my audience?
What topic am I writing on?
What effects do I want to have on my audience? [One way to think of this questions is as a series of sub-questions: 1) What do I want my audience thinking, believing, feeling or doing after reading my text?, or 2) What is my purpose(s) in writing this text?, or 3) Do I want to instruct, persuade, inform, entertain or some combination of all four?]
What genre am I writing in? [Genre answers questions about length, format, topics, how to use evidence. More on this later.]
What can I say? [You can answer this last with a list, a free write, a mind map, or an outline. Again, more on these techniques later.]
How do I organize what I say? [This question gets to specific tactics of organization, like, chronological, less to most important, comparison and contrast, functional vs. formal definition, etc.]