Statement of Process and Reflection

This project was a pretty fun one because we were able to choose our own topic that we were interested in and do research on that topic. My topic was the US Financial System; I chose this topic because I was always curious how our money today first started. The way I first started was browsing the Internet finding information on my topic. When I first started the project, I was at a road block at what genre to use. I started out slow and was just scanning my friend's blogs to see if I could think of any ideas. It actually helped because after I looked at Jonathon's poem, I decided to do a poem for my first genre also. After I wrote the sonnet poem, things got easier. When I received new information, the ideas for new genres came quickly. As I progressed through the project, I was keeping up with the benchmarks so things went smoothly. My first post was the bibliography. I wanted to organize the blog so that it was easy to find certain things; the bibliography was on the bottom so you could just scroll down and the statement of process and glossary is on the top. My second post is a Shakespearean sonnet. It gives a little briefing about money. The next genre is a game which consists of numerous polls that asks questions about the US Financial System. After that, I wrote a news article. I think this could've been the hardest to write because I'm not really familiar with writing news. With a little help I was able to improve it. Next, I continued doing posts according to my available information.

However, near the end, there wasn't much new information and you weren't supposed to repeat information so there was less progress; but I had nine genres so far so I wasn't so worried. In the end, I ended up with only nine different genres and a glossary, which is still ten genres if you count the glossary. I think that I could have finished one more genre but I had a problem with gaining new information. I think that the easiest part of this project was writing the genres, as in creating the posts. This topic allowed me to be creative with my posts. I think the hardest part was trying to revise. I think it was hard because since I've read these posts numerous times, I lost concentration because my mind got bored of them.