Free-Write

Cameron Stanzione
12-5-07
Analytical and Persuasive Writing
Free-Write

Topic: Discuss your topic for project 3. Examine the various mediums (blog, letters, fables, etc.) that you used in project 3. Define tools and ideas that you used to guide your construction of the 3 aspects of the project. Analyze the effectiveness of your texts in the project.

For topic three I focused on the issue of homelessness in the United States. For project three we set up blogs which would address the issue we were dealing with. Setting up the blog was fairly simple and was a more efficient way of doing things considering we wasted a lot of paper on some projects in the past. After setting up the blog we then gave our professor are blog address where she could view our progress throughout the project. Following that we were then instructed to view peers blogs and writes comments on their site. The first thing on the blog for our fellow peers to review would be the research paper, which we completed before the start of project three.
After that we then had to complete three letters to organizations that were either for or against the issue we were discussing. After choosing three organizations and posting them on my blog I then wrote three letters, which I sent to each organization as a hard copy and also posted on my blog for my professor and peers to view. After the completion of the letters we had one more step of the project to complete.
The final step was we had to create either a game or a fable that persisted to our topic. Not only did it have to be a game or fable it had to accommodate children ranging from fifth to eighth grade. I choose to write a fable because it seemed like the most effective way to explain homelessness to the children. after completing the fable I then posted it on my blog and it marked the completion of project three. In addition to project three I thought it made me a better writer and taught me how to properly do and explain a topic, which at first not completely sure of.