Megan's Cover Memo
Within my research project, I have included: my cover memo, annotative bibliography, work’s cited page, proposal, as well as mine and Angel’s research. Through many trials and errors, I feel that both Angel and I
have come up with a unique and well researched project. Though it may not be perfect, I am so proud to call this research project my own.
As soon as we heard about this research project, we knew we would
be doing a project along the same lines. With the approval of our teacher, we were able to collaborate in doing research and create a project together that incorporated all of our ideas. At first I was a little concerned because we both seemed to be on different paths with where we wanted to go with this project. However, we sat down together one night and had discussed exactly what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go with this. However, from the beginning, we knew we would be using the weebly website in order to show our project.
By using a website in order to present our research project, we were able to use pictures and examples of the different concepts we were
discussing. When writing a paper on manga and anime, it’s kind of hard for the audience to see what we see and though we may know what we are talking about, our readers will probably not. With the availability of a website, we were able to show our audience exactly what we are talking about with vivid pictures and clips.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of problems with weebly. It took almost half the time just trying to rearrange our research on the page because
it would never paste from Word documents right. We tried different computers and different ways to input our information, but it still wasn’t formatting the way we wanted it to. The funny thing was that even when we would experiment by copy and pasting from the weebly website itself, it would change its own formatting too. It seemed that nothing we did would change this and so this was a huge hindrance to our project. One of us would be inputting the information while the other would be checking on the actual website to see if it was saving correctly and even if we did save it on the creation portion of the site, it would still come up wrong on the website only our audience would see.
Though there were many obstacles to overcome with the website
itself, I feel that the amount of time and effort I put into this project, as
well as my partner, was well worth it. I am so excited that I created something of this magnitude and before this semester, I never thought I could achieve anything close to this. In fact, before this semester, I never really wrote a proper research project.
In all honesty, I think this was one of the hardest and most complex project’s I’ve ever done in my life. And though some parts were hard,
there were interesting times too, especially when I would learn something about manga and anime that I never knew before. In fact, when I went into this project, I kind of went into it blindly. I never knew that women had started using fantasy in manga beginning in the 1980s and also never knew that before then, there were rarely ever women manga artists. This just really amazed me because almost all of the manga I’ve read have been by female manga-ka.
I have demonstrated an understanding of the different genre conventions as well as rhetorical adaptability with these conventions. Through the use of a website, I have incorporated pictures, a slide show, a moving picture, as well as researched information. In applying all these together, I and my partner have produced a well thought out and dynamically pleasing
research project.
In fact, because of the theories of writing we had to learn about within this class, I feel that I applied them to my own writing in that my research will sound not only knowledgeable but also casual. I didn’t want to have a “text book” like quality to my writing and though at points I do write like that, other times I feel like I’m actually having a conversation with my audience. In that perspective, I feel that I succeeded in writing something that not only I enjoy, but will also get my audience to enjoy as well.
This ability to understand the theories of writing has also helped me to critically read complex text in order to do my research. I feel that there was so many texts thrown at me at one point so in order to not get overwhelmed, I took them one step at a time and organized them in a way that would make me easily understand them and relate them within my research. Though at times I felt that I did not accomplish this too well, I also believe that I at least tried to.
This ability to read critically also allowed me to investigate and incorporate material into my research project. If I wasn’t able to read as well as I had, I wouldn’t have understood the texts at all and my research would be a complete flop. I think as it stands, my research is solid and my
incorporation of other texts makes my research that much better.
However, when I was incorporating these texts into my research, I was also very aware of my own writing. I felt that the texts I cited were so
much more intellectual than my own writing. When I went to fix it and make mine sound more educational, I felt that it didn’t work as well and that I needed my personal voice in order to appeal more to my audience.
Something that also had to appeal to my audience was the website itself. After using weebly, I feel that I am more technological aware of the
impact that these evolving technologies have on creating a text. There were so many hardships with this site: copy/paste issues from Word document to the site, not saving information, posting pictures wrong, slow loading, etc. At first I was excited about using this site in order to create my research project, but because it kept freaking out on me, it took double the time in order to get everything perfect. When I would type up my research in word and then try to copy and paste it in the weebly site, the format would all be off and I would have to go through each paragraph to actually fix what was wrong with it. Though it was a huge hassle, I feel the weebly web site was the best way to present our project.
After using weebly to show our research project, I have such a better understand of the power of the written word. I found that when I was
copying and pasting my research onto the site, I could have posted anything I wanted without anyone knowing any different. Nowadays we have to be careful of what information we use and what we post online because someone, somewhere, will read it the wrong way or be misinformed.
Because of this, I became familiar with the current standards and dynamic nature of grammar and mechanics in applying my research project online.
Because Angel and I decided to do a research project based off of Japanese manga and anime, we knew there would be terms we would have to incorporate that would be of a different language. Through intense research and paying close attention to what we wrote, both she and I made sure that our grammar and pronunciation of certain words and phrases were correct.
Because of all this, I feel that it has brought me the knowledge that, if need be, I can seek post-graduate options that are available to me. I
actually have to confess that I wasn’t considering anything after graduation, but after doing this project, I feel that I have so much more potential than I thought.
have come up with a unique and well researched project. Though it may not be perfect, I am so proud to call this research project my own.
As soon as we heard about this research project, we knew we would
be doing a project along the same lines. With the approval of our teacher, we were able to collaborate in doing research and create a project together that incorporated all of our ideas. At first I was a little concerned because we both seemed to be on different paths with where we wanted to go with this project. However, we sat down together one night and had discussed exactly what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go with this. However, from the beginning, we knew we would be using the weebly website in order to show our project.
By using a website in order to present our research project, we were able to use pictures and examples of the different concepts we were
discussing. When writing a paper on manga and anime, it’s kind of hard for the audience to see what we see and though we may know what we are talking about, our readers will probably not. With the availability of a website, we were able to show our audience exactly what we are talking about with vivid pictures and clips.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of problems with weebly. It took almost half the time just trying to rearrange our research on the page because
it would never paste from Word documents right. We tried different computers and different ways to input our information, but it still wasn’t formatting the way we wanted it to. The funny thing was that even when we would experiment by copy and pasting from the weebly website itself, it would change its own formatting too. It seemed that nothing we did would change this and so this was a huge hindrance to our project. One of us would be inputting the information while the other would be checking on the actual website to see if it was saving correctly and even if we did save it on the creation portion of the site, it would still come up wrong on the website only our audience would see.
Though there were many obstacles to overcome with the website
itself, I feel that the amount of time and effort I put into this project, as
well as my partner, was well worth it. I am so excited that I created something of this magnitude and before this semester, I never thought I could achieve anything close to this. In fact, before this semester, I never really wrote a proper research project.
In all honesty, I think this was one of the hardest and most complex project’s I’ve ever done in my life. And though some parts were hard,
there were interesting times too, especially when I would learn something about manga and anime that I never knew before. In fact, when I went into this project, I kind of went into it blindly. I never knew that women had started using fantasy in manga beginning in the 1980s and also never knew that before then, there were rarely ever women manga artists. This just really amazed me because almost all of the manga I’ve read have been by female manga-ka.
I have demonstrated an understanding of the different genre conventions as well as rhetorical adaptability with these conventions. Through the use of a website, I have incorporated pictures, a slide show, a moving picture, as well as researched information. In applying all these together, I and my partner have produced a well thought out and dynamically pleasing
research project.
In fact, because of the theories of writing we had to learn about within this class, I feel that I applied them to my own writing in that my research will sound not only knowledgeable but also casual. I didn’t want to have a “text book” like quality to my writing and though at points I do write like that, other times I feel like I’m actually having a conversation with my audience. In that perspective, I feel that I succeeded in writing something that not only I enjoy, but will also get my audience to enjoy as well.
This ability to understand the theories of writing has also helped me to critically read complex text in order to do my research. I feel that there was so many texts thrown at me at one point so in order to not get overwhelmed, I took them one step at a time and organized them in a way that would make me easily understand them and relate them within my research. Though at times I felt that I did not accomplish this too well, I also believe that I at least tried to.
This ability to read critically also allowed me to investigate and incorporate material into my research project. If I wasn’t able to read as well as I had, I wouldn’t have understood the texts at all and my research would be a complete flop. I think as it stands, my research is solid and my
incorporation of other texts makes my research that much better.
However, when I was incorporating these texts into my research, I was also very aware of my own writing. I felt that the texts I cited were so
much more intellectual than my own writing. When I went to fix it and make mine sound more educational, I felt that it didn’t work as well and that I needed my personal voice in order to appeal more to my audience.
Something that also had to appeal to my audience was the website itself. After using weebly, I feel that I am more technological aware of the
impact that these evolving technologies have on creating a text. There were so many hardships with this site: copy/paste issues from Word document to the site, not saving information, posting pictures wrong, slow loading, etc. At first I was excited about using this site in order to create my research project, but because it kept freaking out on me, it took double the time in order to get everything perfect. When I would type up my research in word and then try to copy and paste it in the weebly site, the format would all be off and I would have to go through each paragraph to actually fix what was wrong with it. Though it was a huge hassle, I feel the weebly web site was the best way to present our project.
After using weebly to show our research project, I have such a better understand of the power of the written word. I found that when I was
copying and pasting my research onto the site, I could have posted anything I wanted without anyone knowing any different. Nowadays we have to be careful of what information we use and what we post online because someone, somewhere, will read it the wrong way or be misinformed.
Because of this, I became familiar with the current standards and dynamic nature of grammar and mechanics in applying my research project online.
Because Angel and I decided to do a research project based off of Japanese manga and anime, we knew there would be terms we would have to incorporate that would be of a different language. Through intense research and paying close attention to what we wrote, both she and I made sure that our grammar and pronunciation of certain words and phrases were correct.
Because of all this, I feel that it has brought me the knowledge that, if need be, I can seek post-graduate options that are available to me. I
actually have to confess that I wasn’t considering anything after graduation, but after doing this project, I feel that I have so much more potential than I thought.