Mia

I have greatly enjoyed the content from this class, although at times I have been overwhelmed with the face pace of our summer session while balancing school/work/family. Dr. P., has been great to work with and she has been an amazing resource, so that's the first point I want to make. A good professor really makes a difference! Second, I like that the information I gained can be used daily. From composing emails to creating social media content I am looking forward to watching the new skills blossom.

I am most proud of really persevering with the amount of work needed to learn about web writing and learn a new vocabulary - discourse audience, content, method, rhetorical situation, architecture. The perseverance has helped me to learn so much about a kind of writing that I didn’t know anything about! #writ318mu #week4 #week5

This graph is the final thing from my assignment that I would like some feedback on. This was a graph to show basically the conclusions that I came to based on my analysis. I found that behind-the-scenes tend to get more engagement than finished product posts. This graph is a big part of my assignment as it shows my main conclusion, so I wanted to make sure that it made sense. Is there anything I should add to make it more clear? Is the explanation underneath of the graph clear enough so that readers can understand and know what the graph is explaining? If so, what should I add and where to this to make it more accessible, and so readers can clearly see that this is the main conclusion I am making to my research question.

The audience is willing to engage with several types of content, but the content will dictate to what extent. Content creators that offer different types of content can satisfy the needs of the community by posting different types of material. Consistent content creation to a specific niche audience can be a more productive strategy if applied correctly.

The digital space for my assignment is Facebook, yeah I know it may be considered old school but if it works then it isn't broken. I feel comfortable on that platform and it serves my use or need that I have had for content and information. I just used it this week to see if my trash was pushed back a day because of the federal holiday. A lot of my friends post on there their happenings and I receive wedding invites, birthday and other personal event invites. I like how I can click on something I like and save it for when I want it and am able to break the saves up into my personal categories. I find I use that a lot especially when I feel like experimenting new food recipes or I want to see what I can add to my flowerbeds. I also chose to pick sites that I use the most for myself. When I say most I mean over 12 times a year.

The most important thing I learned is that I was mostly only reporting data, not analyzing. Analysis goes beyond the numbers and descriptions. I learned I need to really think through what the user experience is, who the users are, why the content creator made choices based on the data, etc. Assignment feedback was super helpful and I feel more confident in doing analysis for the Content Analysis Project. Always room for improvement. #writ318mu #week3

The analysis practice was helpful to keep my assumptions in check. Most of my college writing has been by using only words in APA format. Learning to analyze data by looking at audience engagement with likes, comments, and shares is helping me to see that data is more than graphs and charts. Noticing the number of likes helps me to think more about why the user valued the content enough to like it and value it even more to comment or share. This helps to learn what the users value (analysis) so more of the same can be done for content creation in the future. It has actually been fun to think of this new knowledge as insider information! #writ318mu #week3