Visual Analysis Comments from Megan

·         When going through the comments that I received on my paper a couple things really stood out to me that I wanted to reconsider and revise. Megan tells me several times to dig deeper by saying a couple things like ‘Analyze the words’ , ‘How do the individual features suggest this idea’ and ‘How can the viewer tell that this is what is going on’. All of these comments were helpful because it made me go through and reexamine my pictures. It helped to guide me to delve deeper and really reconsider and add onto what I had said was the main ideas of my images.

·         Everything that was pointed out was very extremely helpful, even the small things like the misspelling of a word and revising a phrase to sound more formal. Originally I was going to say the lease helpful piece of advice I received was to make something sound more formal but I don’t agree with that anymore. It is important to write formally and sound knowledgeable in an academic paper. Sounding to casual may cause the reader to assume you aren’t qualified to be speaking about your topic.

·         Before I had sat down to write the revision for extra credit I had lots of questions, however sitting down and forcing myself to write, I cleared most of them up for myself. I was frustrated with myself because I kept making my own inferences on what was going on in the picture and jumping to my own conclusions. The biggest question I had was how do I keep myself out of my own writing? However after sitting with my paper for an hour or 2 and getting some outsider perspective I was able to go about my paper differently and objectively. All that I had to do was look at the pictures piece by piece instead of an image as a whole.

·         While I have done lots of revisions to my paper this far I still would like to do one more draft. I feel as of now I have gotten everything out on paper that I wanted to, now all that I need is to organize my thoughts a little better. Because of the revisions I did with the extra credit, I was able to get the bulk of the major edits out of the way however my ideas seem a little scattered. I think if I spent one more day on it, it will be ready to turn in for the final grade at the end of the year.