Magazine Reflection

Throughout the process of writing and rewriting my article for the ampersand magazine I learned how important it was to do an in depth and precise look at each sentence for any piece of writing. For example I read through my article sentence by sentence and looked for specific mistakes such as how to use nouns and verbs effectively, making your writing a concert, not a pancakes, and also avoiding sledgehammer words.
In my opinion my first draft was too similar to my original photo essay. What I decided to do, while still in the process of perfecting my article, was to shorten my photo essay and go more in depth on some of the subjects I discussed. Some of the many issues I had when developing my final piece of writing was having everything connect. For example, I was trying to state specific things that did not change such as the emblem on the Naval Training Center Comman Center (NTCCC), but I had not mentioned anything similar to this in the thesis or introduction for that matter. And besides that the major factor why I believe my article was at a high quality piece of writing was because the fact we went over our articles sentence by sentence almost everyday and continued to improve on them constantly.

In this reflection, you can cover (but are not required to do all of):

* Writing

* Editing

* Drafting & Revision

* Layout & Design

* Photography

* Creativity & Originality

* The printing & publishing process & industry

* Your own thoughts about your path beyond 11th grade (and beyond HTHMA... that's what internship is about, right?)

* American society

* The American economy

* History & social studies

* And much much more!!!!

What did you learn?

How did you learn it?

Why is this important?

This should be posted as a blog entry by the end of the school day on Monday 6/1