My group and I did a project in class were we had to create a newspaper cover about the Lincoln-Douglas debates we were assigned, we got assigned the first debate. The newspaper had to cover topics in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Each member of my group including me wrote an article that would be featured in the front page. I decided to write about the questions that Douglas was asking Lincoln.
The first workday we had in class I went over the transcript for Douglas's part of the debate and highlighted some main points that I saw his part of the debate. When I was reading this I didn't know what I was going to write my article about. As I went over the reading the transcript over and over a few times I decided to write about the questions that Douglas was so desperately wanting to know, claiming that Lincoln knew the answers. Well I did that the for the first and second work day. Then I created a article, like a outline to my article, it wasn't a full article just a little bit and I asked my group member who was working on the Lincoln side of the debate and she gave me some quotes so I added that to my article, and just kept writing from there. I also had to come up with a Headline, I had come up with one before but the teacher explained to us that we had missed putting in an action verb so I then rewrote that.
I did think that our Newspaper came out good. Even though it had a few mistakes it was I think well written. I liked how the headlines for our Newspaper and the subhead lines kind of summarized what was going on in the article. The design of the Newspaper was okay, we could of have fixed it a bit more. The boxes on the text looked kind of weird because one column was boxed but the other one wasn’t. One typo that was found on our Newspaper wasn’t major but it was still a typo I think we should have maybe read through for typos our selves instead of relying on word spell check. I think that I could have improved on the quotes that were used in my article; I don’t feel like they were the best possible quotes ever. They didn’t really get to my main point. I think if I would have really looked into the transcript, both not just one, that I would of found more or better quotes that would match up better of what I am trying to say in my article.
I do think that during this project everyone’s ideas were put in as a group If some one had an idea we would use it or at least incorporate it some how, so I think that we did work well as a team.
The first workday we had in class I went over the transcript for Douglas's part of the debate and highlighted some main points that I saw his part of the debate. When I was reading this I didn't know what I was going to write my article about. As I went over the reading the transcript over and over a few times I decided to write about the questions that Douglas was so desperately wanting to know, claiming that Lincoln knew the answers. Well I did that the for the first and second work day. Then I created a article, like a outline to my article, it wasn't a full article just a little bit and I asked my group member who was working on the Lincoln side of the debate and she gave me some quotes so I added that to my article, and just kept writing from there. I also had to come up with a Headline, I had come up with one before but the teacher explained to us that we had missed putting in an action verb so I then rewrote that.
I did think that our Newspaper came out good. Even though it had a few mistakes it was I think well written. I liked how the headlines for our Newspaper and the subhead lines kind of summarized what was going on in the article. The design of the Newspaper was okay, we could of have fixed it a bit more. The boxes on the text looked kind of weird because one column was boxed but the other one wasn’t. One typo that was found on our Newspaper wasn’t major but it was still a typo I think we should have maybe read through for typos our selves instead of relying on word spell check. I think that I could have improved on the quotes that were used in my article; I don’t feel like they were the best possible quotes ever. They didn’t really get to my main point. I think if I would have really looked into the transcript, both not just one, that I would of found more or better quotes that would match up better of what I am trying to say in my article.
I do think that during this project everyone’s ideas were put in as a group If some one had an idea we would use it or at least incorporate it some how, so I think that we did work well as a team.
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