Reflection on Project 1 Draft

For the following post, I will be answering questions from Student's Guide. This will include some insight on the audience and context of my QRG. For the peer review, I revised Tom and Mark's drafts, which were very helpful in giving me practice in revision and giving me ideas for my own draft.

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Audience:

• Who is going to be reading this document, and who am I trying to reach with my argument? 
• My audience would be my professor and my classmates within 109H. There is no true argument within a QRG, instead, I wish to simply inform my audience about this controversy.

• What are their values and expectations? Am I adequately meeting these expectations?
• The expectation is that I know everything about this controversy and understand it completely. I hope that I have met their expectations to a point, but this controversy is very complex and is somewhat difficult to explain. However, I will try my best to continue researching and revising my paper.

• How much information do I need to give my audience, and how much ground information or context should I provide?
• For my specific topic, I feel that I should define medical terminology and some scientific ideas, as they can be difficult to understand (even for me!). Describing why addiction is bad, though, is not needed as this is something that most people understand. 

• What kind of language is suitable for this audience? 
• Since this is an academic audience, I feel that the typical informality of a QRG should be left out. Not to say that this project should be completely formal, but it should remain professional. Also, the topic itself can be sensitive to some, so no jokes or aside comments should be made.

• What tone should I use with my audience? Do I use this tone consistently throughout my draft?
• I feel that the tone should be semi-formal, and I do feel like I have kept this tone consistent within my QRG.

Context:

• What are the formatting requirements of the assignment? Do I meet them?
• Most of the formatting requirements are to make the QRG easier on the reader's eye. So effective use of white space, short paragraphs and graphics should be used. I think I have done well in keeping the paragraphs short and plenty of white space within my draft, however, I have not added as many images as I need yet. 

• What are the content requirements for the assignment? Do I meet them?
• This is what I feel I struggle with most. The content requirements are listed within the Project 1 Rubric, and consist of topics such as  a proper introduction, the key/major events and where the controversy is headed in the future. So far, I have used this draft to get the basic content out of the way, but I will continue revising to include all of the content requirements. 

• Does my draft reflect knowledge or skills gained in class in addition to my own ideas and voice?
• I feel that I have shown how we learned to keep our paragraphs concise and summarize our context. However, I think that this draft still sounds like me as a writer and does include my own ideas about this controversy. 

• Have I addressed any grammatical issues that my teacher highlighted in class or in my previously-graded assignments?
• While have not yet revised it, I have taken note that the verbs in my signal phrases, since I am working in APA, should be in past tense and stay  consistent throughout the QRG. My classmates also included feedback on my grammar, such as my use of active verbs and odd wording, which I will fix as I revise.