PSA Reflection

Muhammad Hussain

Writing For Engineering

City College of New York

Julianne Davidow

3/17/24

Part 1:

• For the PSA assignment, we used the linguistic differences between my group mates and I, to help each other with the writing or stylization of our portions of work for this assignment. This helped us to have better writing for our assignment. Our group also made sure to use simple, understandable writing to account for linguistic differences between our group and our audience.

•  This assignment helped enhance my strategies for reading as we had to do a good amount of research for this assignment. Also, I improved my drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment, as not only did I have to go over my work, but also the work of three other people. All of us as a group had to work together with the editing and revising, and agree with a final draft. This helped me to see other peoples perspectives and their ways of revising, which helped to find better or atleast different ways to revise and edit.

• We did a lot of negotiating between our goals and expectations and with the audience’s for this assignment. There were a lot of constrictions on how the PSA assignment was meant to be done. For example, our group wanted to include a good amount more information into our assignment, but due to constraints on how long the assignment could be we were not able to. Along with that, all of my group members wanted to take the assignment in a certain direction, or wanted to put emphasis on a certain thing, but we all had to sacrifice certain things that we wanted.

• We developed and engaged in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process, by engaging in group work, and peer review. We each presented our ideas for the assignment to each other, spoke together about which topic we wanted to pick,  and helped each other with our individual portions of the assignment. Along with this, we also helped other groups who had questions with their assignment, or who needed help navigating canva.

• My group engaged in genre analysis and multimodal composition by going through several different sources that all have their own genre of writing, and by using images and diagrams along with writing in our assignment. This helped us to use effective writing as we had access to a variety of information from our different sources, and we also had images and diagrams helping our audience to understand what was in our writing.

•  In our assignment, we formulated and articulated two stances through our call to action, that being “Students should make the effort to use the current refill stations” and “CCNY should install more drinking stations”.

• We did practice using various sources for this assignment. We needed to collect a good amount of information to use for this assignment, and we ended up with close to a page of just sources.

• We definitely strengthened our source use practices, as we had to go through various different articles and find information that would actually be of benefit to us, and find how to include that information into our assignment.

Part 2:

When first starting to approach this assignment, I had started to try to familiarize ourselves with canva, and try to come up with a good design for our slides. Afterwards, I made sure to find many sources that we could use to get a good amount of information for our assignment. Once we had obtained enough sources and information, we went in head first, and just tried to get the assignment complete to the best of our ability. Once we were finished, we had started to look over and revise each other’s work, and make sure to get our work as concise as possible. This process worked pretty well for us, as we got the work done reasonably well, and got us to finish this assignment on time. I do not believe we would need to reconsider or rework this approach. This is not a new approach to me, I have been using this approach for a good while now, for most of my assignments.