Our objectives this week included reporting on our mailing lists, doing peer reviews, and drafting our final two genres.

The content addressed this week was centered around our projects. We have gotten to the point in the semester where we are completely immersed in our MRPs. We are mainly focused on our genres for our projects. We are also looking at the genres of those in our groups. This week we again did peer reviews, as I suspect we will be doing next week as well. This week we also reported on our mailing lists. This meant giving the information about the list, how to subscribe and write to the list, and discussing the general aspects of the list. This could include topics, subscribers, community relations, and the mood of the list.

I have kept a lot of the mailings from my list. My list is mainly a discussion group for parents. I have found this very helpful since one of my voices is that of a parent of a child with Autism. I have been able to find a lot of professional information from my journal articles, but I appreciated this list because it gave me an idea of the parent’s perspective. I reviewed the mailings for the assignment, but I already had an idea of the mood and community of the list from the previous weeks. The list is really supportive when parents write in with questions, problems, whatever. I feel like I have really learned a lot.

Completing the peer reviews has been difficult for me because, for some reason, I can’t view the goodies, like power point presentations or newsletters, from my computer at home. It’s not a big deal because I can go to school and do it. But, it concerns me. I get this message that says the file cannot be viewed. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed the peer reviews. They let me see what everyone else is doing. It also makes me look at my project with a more critical eye. Most of all, when you are working in isolation as much as we are, it’s just nice to get some feedback.

Now that I have drafts of my last two genres, I feel like my project is starting to take shape. It is so hard to look at it in pieces and tell what you need to work on. You know if you need to work on the individual genre, but you can’t tell if need to work on your overall concept. It is hard to look at one of the genres and know what you need to do to make sure you are addressing your questions. You can tell somewhat, but you really need to look at the whole thing in order to be able to see the holes. Mine has a lot of holes, but I think I have a good foundation.

No questions at this time, but I’m sure I’ll think of some later.