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       I'm definitely a week late on this, but better late than never!

Anticipation
       The post-production week is gonna be a hard time, I'm anticipating a lot of work ahead of me and a lot of stress, luckily some of my classes are cancelled so I may have all the time I need to get everything done well and accurately.

Key Info
       The important thing to know is that obviously the project is very far from completion, but it also is important to regard that the fields of writing I'm encompassing, while both scientific, are different and so that complicates everything a little.

Weaknesses
       My weakness with this project is I'm severely behind schedule with it, besides that my first interviewee never gave me genre examples so I've just had to pick some hoping that they are good enough for what I need.

Strengths
       My strengths in this project is that I've created podcasts before, I know what sounds good and how they should be put together to be attractive sounding and hopefully not too boring.

Rough Copy

Here is a partial audio of the rough copy, it hasn't been edited and there's no music and a large section is missing, but you can listen to it now at least!

LIsten

Reflection on a Deadline and No Daylight Savings

Successes
    I got at least a couple of the blog posts in on time and that is a success for the amount of time I've had to do everything I think. And it's not totally shoddy work for what I might have been expecting of me.

Challenges
     The challenge with this week is actually accomplishing everything and balancing timing with midterms and packing and planning for traveling for Spring Break. I also don't think I accomplished everything I really needed to but I couldn't really change that now after the fact.

Based on Experiences
    Hopefully next week will not be so overrun with work because after Spring Break there may be a lull of getting back into the groove of everything and then I may be able to actually put the work into this project that it needs.

Feels
     Overall this project is going rather poorly, I either have poor time management or I really do not have the time for this on top of everything else. Sleep is certainly an unnecessary human bodily function and my parents want to be able to do things the second break started irregardless of work. They really don't see the point of having work over a break and like to disregard such things.

Production Report 2

Form
     The form of this rough example much like the last is only in proposed script form, and a very rough one at that. It still sticks to the convention as I keep in mind what would be best to say and how this would really translate to speech. 

Production
      A problem within this production step was that I was unsure how to make a good transition from my introduction into the actual main part of the project. 

Outline Item

• "Common Types of Genres"- Importance because it gives the audience really the context of my analysis.Genres to talk about
• Research Paper- most common
• Chapter writing for books
• Conference Talks

Adaptation of Outline Item

“ To start off the discussion in today’s segment I would like to tell you a little more about the main genres that those in the field of neuroscience predominantly write in. Though there are many types of genres, the ones that I will be focusing on today include scientific research papers, book chapters, and lecture talks. Each of these different genres have a certain context for which they are written and each have their own set of conventions to be recognized. These separate things are each important because they allow us to understand better the writings individually and as a whole the way in which writing is approached within the field; whether that is through a purely logical lens or even a more emotional spin to what is being discussed."

Production Report 1

Form

Since I have not been able to record yet I instead wrote this out as I would hope to speak it, which will significantly change the tone and how it may sound even though it looks like a solid block of text at this time it will translate with more fluidity into speech

Production

Only having a script, while being an essential part of the project, really is not as far into the project as I should be, and yet that's all I can provide and really achieve as Spring Break has arrived. I think I have a handle on what I will be talking about in this project but there's no telling if I can achieve it as it should be done.

Outline Item

  The opening section should include the explanation on what the podcast is about, Include:

• Introduction of myself
• Introduction of my interviewees
• Need to explain that the project is focusing on the rhetorical strategies and context of writings within my field of study.

Adaptation of Outline Item

*chill music*

“ Hello listeners and welcome to this segment on rhetorical strategies in writings in the field of Neuroscience and other biological sciences. I’m Alexis, your host for this segment.Today you’ll get to hear from some of the top professors in the field, Dr. Alan Nighorn and Dr. Anna Dornhaus. The focus in this podcast will be on the different rhetorical strategies apparent in different forms of writings in the fields of neuroscience and other biological sciences,Some of these strategies include the audience the works were targeted towards and some of the ways in which the authors articulated their ideas. The different writing genres that I will discuss with you today include scientific research papers and conference talks, staples to any scientist's repertoire.”

*transitional music of some sort*

Reflections on the Limitation of Hours in a Day

        I can say with certainty that  I do appreciate the new sort of way the blog posts are structured; no photos and everything makes them feel much more efficient and short.

Success

        Well things went relatively right this week, or so I hope. The posts seemed pretty self explanatory and I think I filled them to the necessary requirements but that is unsure if that is true or not at this point. 

Challenges

         While yes the blog posts are shorter and easier, I still fear I have not done all that was required of me and with the shorter amount it feels as though it is much more likely to have mistakes negatively affect everything. I worry that I did not put enough detail into the work; because life is fickle and to try and pretend this class is everything that can fill up my schedule is a ridiculous assumption to make. It is challenging to find time in the week earlier than the weekend to accomplish the work and it feels like a constant scramble for purchase.

Use Psychic Powers to See the Future

        I would bet as least five dollars that I will have cried over this project at least once by the deadline next Sunday. And although I've made a tentative schedule of the times that I could (read: should) do the work I also know that on each day of the week I will have a more pressing thing due that day, or the next morning, when this isn't due for another entire week. 

Fear  

         Overall, I'm stressed; but when am I not. I have high hopes that I could do well on this project but it feels like it's more work than I have the ability to put into at the moment. I'm thinking Spring Break will be an interesting Grace period in the middle of the this project that may in the end be the line between a good project and not.

Production Schedule

     There's a whole lot to be done to produce this project, and to get it done in a timely manner it would be best for me to schedule my time in timely manner

Beginning 

• What Needs to Be Done: Record introduction, know for sure what I want to say
• Where it Should Be Done: The writing for this part can be done anywhere, the recording part needs to be done somewhere silent, the closet in my dorm room is pretty insulated
• When it Should Be Done: Most likely this need to be done, at least the writing by Tuesday, and the recording done shortly after, either that or the introduction should be done last to make sure to include everything. Should be done: 3/8-3/10
• Resources: Recording device, Computer, My own voice
• Completed:
• Changes Made:

Middle

• What Needs to Be Done: Write script, analyze the genre examples and decide how I want to plan the inclusion of quotes into my speaking and how musical transitions should happen where. The recording for this needs to be done as well soon
• Where it Should Be Done: Writing will probably happen in the library or even a coffee shop, somewhere to get caffeine to improve my analysis skills, probably start in the afternoon and stay until I'm kicked out. The recording once again should be done in a quiet place to ensure maximum quality
• When it Should Be Done: Since this is the main part of the work I need to put the most effort into it and it will probably take longer as a whole to complete gonna shoot for being done with this around 3/11
• Resources: Recording device, Computer, Interviewees Voices, My own Voice
• Completed:
• Changes Made:

End 

• What Needs to Be Done: Sum up the work as a whole, create references, record
• Where it Should Be Done: The same places as the other ones, probably will be done in conjunction with both or one of the other processes 
• When it Should Be Done: Because of it's short quality it could be done at any time, but probably after I've done the main body of the project so- 3/11 or 3/12
• Resources: Recording device, Computer, My own voice
• Completed:
• Changes Made:

Other things that need to be done are getting the actual recorder, that due to library policy I can only keep out for three days, if I want to get recording done well in time I should check that out by 3/9 at the latest. Also need to make sure I have an editing sound program that works efficiently.

Content Outline

     To begin the work on this project it would be best to outline what I want the final project to have content wise. 

     
Content Outline