Project 4 Analysis

The purpose of project 4 was to recreate a project from this course (ENG 101) using global revision. Global revision occurs when you change something on a larger, more broad scale. For example, global revision may consist of changing the overall purpose, audience, forum, and/or genre of a piece. In other words, global revision seeks to alter the "big picture" of a piece.
I chose to revise my narrative piece from project 1. As a refresher, the topic that I wrote about in this piece was my trip to Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary. When thinking about how to globally revise this narrative piece, I thought that I might change the format of the paper into the form of a website. The website that I made for project 4 can be found at the web address: http://eng101project4.weebly.com. In order to create a website, I used the program: Weebly. When making my website, I decided to format it so that the homepage corresponded with the introduction of my narrative, and then I made separate pages/links for the different ideas that I discussed in my paper. Starting with the homepage, I simply dragged and dropped the introduction paragraph from project 1 onto the page. In order to make the page more appealing and colorful, I incorporated actual pictures that I took while on my trip to Vienna and Budapest. When deciding how many pages to incorporate and what should be included on each page, I went through my project 1 paper and read paragraph to paragraph to see what the main ideas were that I discussed. Originally, I thought I might just make a page for each paragraph of my paper. However, as I went through my narrative, I realized that sometimes the ideas that I presented in one paragraph would continue into or connect to the ideas in the next paragraph. Therefore, I ended up separating my ideas from my narrative paper into six main ideas that I turned into pages on my website. I titled the pages based on the overall idea that was being discussed. These titles include: Preparation Details and My First Flight to Europe, The First Day in Austria, On the Road to Budapest: Experiencing Exchange Rate Differences, Budapest,Hungary, Experiencing Hungarian Culture through Food, Music, and Fellowship, and The Last Night. Each web page includes two to three paragraphs from my narrative. Finally, for my last page on my website, I simply dragged and dropped my concluding paragraph onto the web page. I entitled the last page: Conclusion/Reflection.
This new format of transforming my narrative paper from project 1 into a website is an example of global revision because I altered the genre and target audience of the piece. The genre of the piece was altered because I changed my piece from print text to website form. This alters the audience of my piece because the people who may use the computer/Internet to read and find information may be different than the people who may only use printed forms of text to find information. The Internet and use of websites for information is becoming more and more widespread as society develops into a technologically advanced, digital world. Therefore, by posting my paper in the form of a website, I made it possible for people who may not go around reading printed papers to come across my paper and enjoy reading it and learning about the experience of travelling to different countries with different cultures.