In English Class, this week, we are dealing with writing our drafts. In today's class, we had to bring a hard copy of a page of our rough draft to work on. We were also told to bring two different colored highlighters. The first part of the exercise was to highlight the parts that were not our voice. The next thing that we were to do was to use the other highlighter and highlight our voice. The activity that we participated in this morning, made me as the writer see that in this paper, I should have more of my voice than others. This activity also gave insight as to that I should bookend everyone else's thoughts.
There were a few questions that needed to be answered after this activity was completed. For my highlights I used green for other people's thoughts and blue for my own thoughts. The color that dominated in the activity was the blue highlighter. As of right now, I do not think that I am turning over too much of my text to the sources. But I feel like that could change when I continue further into the draft. As the writer, with what I have at the moment, I do not believe that I am ignoring my other sources or rattling on too much about what I think, because all I worked on was my introduction paragraph and the beginning of the first body paragraph. I noticed that the pattern of colors started off green then went to blue for a few sentences, then back to green, then ended with blue. Once I develop my research paper more, then I will then see if I am taking turns with my paragraphs for my sources. I also feel like when I get more into the draft that I will surround quoted passages with my own voice and analysis. In figure 5.2 on page 191 of Curious Researcher, Amanda wins the "wrestling match". Figure 5.2 is a example Amanda's draft. The grey represents other peoples voices and the blue represents her own voice. There is more blue than grey, which is a very good thing to have in a paper. More of your voice is better than having more of someone else's voice.
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