So I decided to write this blog on my RAP and the work that I have done on it so far. It is still very much a work in progress but I am getting the hang of writing it and where I want it to go. My RAP is about stereotypes in the media and how the media makes it okay to stereotype and how they ultimately lead to hate crimes. The piece of text that I am using is the McDonald's commercial called "McNuggets Lovin' (Don't Be Stingaayy)".
The writing for the RAP has been almost the same to writing I have done before in that I had to do a lot of research to produce a paper. But it's also very different because in a way, the sources that we use are the paper. I know that we are not supposed to let our sources be the voice of our RAPs but we do depend heavily on them. Without them, our papers would be NOTHING! And in a way, it makes it hard not to let the sources speak and have their own voice.
As far as revising my RAP has gone, I must honestly say I haven't stuck to one particular route. One thing I can say that I have done though is worked on the paper piece by piece. You know how sometimes when you write papers, you can revise them as a whole? No, I find it difficult to do that with the RAP. I take the paper piece by piece and add more here and take out some there. As each day goes on, I find that one day I may love a sentence and the next day I'm wondering to myself WHAT in God's green Earth is it doing in that paragraph. Ha ha.
Right now, I can't worry about how I'll end up revising my paper for Commonplace because I know that the RAP I have right now still needs a lot of work. So as I revise and reorganize, I can probably begin to think about how I'll revise my RAP to go onto Commonplace.
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I have the same problem with wondering what I write when I reread it the next day! I think your topic is very interesting and it sounds like you are going to have a great paper by the time you are done. Your writing seems like it would be a great piece for Commonplace.
ReplyDeleteTacoi, I think your blog gets at one of the toughest things about writing--how to balance your voice with that of the sources and research you've done. This is still something I struggle with quite frequently. I appreciate your honesty about you writing process here, and I know your readers will, too.
ReplyDeleteOh! Like Maria said, I think this topic will transition quite interestingly to Commonplace. Racism and stereotypes in the media seems quite relevant, timely, and compelling. I wonder if you'll work with the same primary source? Or take it in a new direction? Hmmm...