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Saturday, 13. July 2002
The Progress of Week Five

Our tasks this week were few. We continued with our mailing lists, performed a library search, considered our own credibility as web publishers, and began to work on our genres.

The content we addressed this week was similar to past weeks with the exception of the information on the Power Point presentations. The link provided gave information on how to create and really customize these presentations. This site contained lots of information. It was helpful if you were new to presentations or if you had completed several presentations before. This week we also did some library searches. I found that the session at the library really helped me with this part of the assignment. This week we actually started working on our MRP. Up until now we have been doing assignments to prepare us to work on the project. This week we started on the drafts of our second genre. The genres must present our information in one of three voices could be involved with our topic.

We had already started the process of drafting a genre a few weeks ago when we started on the
webliography, which counts as one genre. But this week I realized that I wrote my webliography in my voice, and the voice of Mary is not one of the voices presented in my MRP. So this week I redid my webliography and gave some actual thought to how I wanted to present the voice and the information. This week I also intensified my research efforts. I found a lot of information in the past weeks, but this week I really focused on analyzing and sorting through the hordes of information that I found. I admit that I feel so much more comfortable with the information I find from a library search, than with the information I find on a web site. Whenever I find something on a web site that I am not sure about, I look it up in EBSCO to see if I can find any more information.

I have decided that this project is very organic in nature. It almost requires you to rethink your topic and how you are going to write it on a daily basis. I wanted to find natural outlets for my information, which turns out to be hard. When I started on my newsletter, in the voice of the parent, I realized that I still have a lot of sifting to do. I have found so much information on Autism. There is almost too much information. My newsletter is a rougher draft than I would like. I think that my approach to this project may be a bit different. Well, I don’t really know, everyone might be doing their project the same way I am. What I am doing is finding information, types of therapy, hormones, whatever, and then deciding on what would be the best voice, the most natural vehicle, for that information. This might not be the best way to do this, but I like it because I feel that it is not forced. We are creating these imaginary people and representing their voices, but they are still based on real people. I just finished a nine hour shift at work, so I am not quite sure if this is making sense. But we are creating a piece of fiction, founded in reality and based on some pretty extensive research. I feel like we really have to be careful if we our point to make it through.

Questions for this week: As we continue to work on our project, if we change things, foundation questions for example, do we need to go back and update everything previously related to foundation questions, like the discussions, or should we just leave it and make sure everything is current for our final draft? Also, I am not sure if the way I have my topics set up is ok. Most of the assignments have topics in the instructions but some don’t and I’m slightly paranoid that you won’t be able to find my postings and then I won’t get credit for them. Please let me know if I need to change anything. Thanks.

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