Blog 20: Monthly Blog

For this month I have been working tirelessly on my senior project. I have learned that a lot of time and effort needs to be put into senior project and in my mentorship. Mostly what I have been doing for my senior project is doing my mentorship and doing lots of reading of articles and books that will help me in the future and for my presentation coming up this year. I learned that everything that I am working on is going to help better prepare myself for what lies ahead. 

With my mentorship I have been working tirelessly on getting my hours up from my mentorship and working on getting something published. I also have been working with a book called Don't Forget to Write! 

this book has helped me shape my senior project presentation and gave me some wonderful ideas on activities needed. It also had great information on writing and what to do when stuck in a rut.  I used this book and one called Print is Dead as examples in my research and presentation.

Blog 19: Independent component 2

LITERAL

(a) “I, Sarah Regan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours of work.”(b) Wattpad.com was one really good source as well as a book by the author of Megan Keneally. (c) With this component I learned how to really work on writing and edit my work and also learned how the online publishing process works.     INTERPRETIVE 

Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   

I chose to write a short story and publish it online to get the experience of publishing something online and getting feed back from the readers. This component is significant because my topic is on publishing and what electronic publishing really means to the consumer and so I took that into consideration and decided to do something electronically to get and inside few to the publishing world online. It demonstrates 30 hours of work because a lot of time went into planning how the story will go and then it took about 12- 14 hours of writing to actually went into this project and also the editing itself took up a lot of time and energy. of course all of this was done electronically and was very interesting to actually see happen. 

APPLIED

How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. This component helped me answer my essential question because it had me really try and work on something to get it published. I published electronically to get a feel for the publishing world online but also to help me understand who would be able to see my work. after I published this short story I got a few comments on it that I thought were kind of inspiring and it gave me a sense of how quickly you can accomplish something while publishing online.

This comment was given 4 hours after I had published my work and I thought it was inspiring.

Monthly Blog: March

For this month I have been working for a new mentor and also having some fun learning how to create things with different programs. This mentorship has given me a chance to feel what its like to work on something and then have it published for everyone to see. It gave me an opportunity to really get into the world of preparing and publishing a work and then having responses given back to me.

this is a picture of one slide that I have done in a power point that was used in my mentorship.

this picture represents part of a weekly bulletin that I help create and send out at my mentorship.

Blog #15: Independent component 2

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For this component I will be writing a short story and i will be publishing it online. This story and publishing will teach me how fast you are able to publish electronically and how long the process of writing and editing is. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will take pictures and have snippets of my writing that shows that I have officially accomplished 30 hours of  my component.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This component gives me the ability to explore my topic because it gives me a chance to work on something to publish. Do some editorial publishing and also give me a chance to do something in the field of electronic publishing itself. This will have a great effect on my senior project presentation be cause i will be able to use some of the information I find on publishing electronically to help explain my project better.

Blog 18: Interview 4 prep

Questions:

1. How do you keep people focus on the task at hand when dealing with getting stuff in on deadlines?
2. Can it be possible that you have to do things on your own because you cannot depend on someone?
3. How does it feel when you are working on something that has a very close deadline and you are just lacking the energy to keep working?
4. Have you ever missed a deadline? what has happened?
5. Is it hard to have many people work under you and help you get things done on time? explain.
6. Tell me about a time when you had a deadline and had to do the work and you nearly missed a deadline.
7. How do you feel when people underneath you don't get things done?
8. How has technology changed the way you produce your work?
9. Has technology made it harder for you to get things done? Explain.
10. What happens when technology fails?
11. Can you think of a time when you weren't using technology? Tell me more about it.
12. How did you come up with using technology to publish things?
13. Is it hard having technology rule the publishing industry?
14.  Do you feel like the publishing industry is going under because of technology?
15. Can you tell me how technology has taken over some of your life?
16. Do you read books on your phone or in print? Why?
17. Do you believe that the publishing industry will get better later on in the future due to technology?
18. Does technology make you more inclined to use it because of all the less stress?
19. how is publishing on technology like?
20. DO you wish the publishing industry had stayed away from technology? Explain.

Blog #17: Answer 3

1. EQ 
1. How has consumers preference for electronic books most changed the publishing industry?
2. Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
1. By proving to more efficient and less time consuming for consumers.
3. 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)
1. A lot more people are now too busy to go to a library and pick up a book.
2. People want to stress less and have more access to books they need whenever it is convenient.
3. More or less all people kids or adults are now starting to have less free time and are still wanting to read.
4. The research source (s) to support your details and answer
1. Print is dead 
2. the publishing industry and careers in it.
5. Concluding Sentence
1. I chose this as my third and final answer because I found through all my research that it is simply the consumers want easy, unstressful, and manageable ways to read a book.

Monthly Blog

So this month has been a crazy ride. so far I have learned quite a few things, first we had to come up with our second answer to our senior project which was quite confusing and had me stumped but with the help of my mom,who is the person I interviewed, i learned a great deal. First I found that my mom knew so much on publishing and had quite a few tips like:

1.  reread all your work
2. Make sure that you get the right publisher according to your genre
3. have fun writing your book

my mom is the author of a textbook.

she spent a lot of time on her book and helped me through my thought process and she will also be helping me finish my book that I am writing. she is someone to definitely look up to being in the future because she has accomplished so much.