Artifact 1: A Color-coded Rough Draft, April 20th

This is one of my first couple rough drafts that I had been working on. We color coded specific parts of our paper that applied to different topics. Pink was for main ideas, thinking problems, and/or key themes. Blue was for ideas from texts. Green was for developing “so what” and/or warrants. Orange was for the evolving thesis. Throughout this stage of my essay, I had a few areas that were either highlighted pink, green or orange, but nothing was highlighted blue. After seeing this more clearly, that I needed to find texts that would help support my paper, that was my top priority and I spent time finding the right texts that were most helpful. Now, if I were to highlight my paper in areas with the designated color, I would have much more highlighted blue. This activity taught me the importance of having different texts used in my writing. Also, it taught me how helpful highlighting the different chunks or sentences of my writing can be in order to see what I need to continue working on specifically.