Project 3 Reflection: Pleasant

This project was my favorite out of all of the projects we did this semester. It was different to the type of essays I am used to writing and it made me learn new things. I had fun working with audacity and trying to figure it out. Even though it was not the easiest thing to learn to use it helped that we had to do a smaller and shorter podcast about the NPR article. Like usual, it took me a while to come up with my idea. I had first come up with the idea of talking about the dorms but I had a feeling a lot of people know about that and I really wanted my project to inform people about something about ASU they might not know about. I decided to do it on the orbit bus system since one of my friends frequently rides it. It was a little difficult to get my rough draft done during thanksgiving week because I went home and wasn't really in contact with the people I wanted to interview. In order to solve this problem I sent my interviewers the questions through email and they wrote back their answers. The hardest part of this project was probably getting the recording of their voice. Since they had their answers ready it was hard for them to talk normally and not like they were reading something. It took a lot of tries to get the final audio because I had constant interruptions and we kept messing up but I felt very accomplished when I was done.

I learned a lot during this project, probably more than any other project. I learned how to use audacity and convert files to mp3 format. Another thing that I learned throughout this project is to manage my time because the time I had with my interviewers was limited and I had to get everything done during that time. I also learned more about interviewing people and getting them to answer in a way that would help my argument.

I don’t really think I did a good job at establishing my argument in my rough draft which is probably why I struggled with the interview questions at first. I didn't really know what my point was and had a difficult time coming up with questions that would lead my interviewers to answer the questions in the direction I wanted.  After researching more on my topic and going to workshop I was able to get a better understanding of what my argument should be and how it should be established on my script. Overall I think my argument in my final product was strong and well crafted.