Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

Taki Sayama Section 4 June 8th 2012

**four**  **of the nine questions listed here:** I chose my topic of Japan Airlines because I was inspired by the JA828J landing at Boston on April 22nd. Also, I have swaying favoritism between planes and trains and I happened to be in the plane mood at that time. Another factor that might be influencing me is the fact that I am going overseas this summer. That usually means I have to take a plane, which prepares me for taking pictures and research on the flights. (This year, I am taking a CRJ to Toronto and a 777-200LR to Tokyo) The most interesting fact that I found was the status this airline had before the merger between JAS and JAL. Without the push I had from the project, I would have probably never tried to research this in the first place. I also believe that the MGRP had a better inspiration because this type had a more creative aspect rather than the traditional research paper. I had collected lots of information of wide range from the designers of logos to the crash reports and influences of JAL 123. Some facts were hard such as the crash report where I had to search using advance searches, while the facts I got from the official company's site was a lot easier because I knew that it existed before. My strength as a writer that I used was the flow of ideas that I can use when I think in Japanese. Because this topic had some relation to Japanese, it was relevant to use that technique to make ideas flow better. The hard part was the translation and the cultural differences I had to do. A new strength wasn't really found though. I considered the organization of the entire piece by chronological order, and tried to use the event's cause and effect to relate to the next piece. Although that was hard trying to make transitions, I believe it is hard to convey the message itself when my topic is about something only you like...... ||
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**and/or** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**completed** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**each day.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: center;">**What road did you choose?** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**Thoughts** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**Reflections** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**Concerns** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**Inspirations** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**Contemplations** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Listing the research topics || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">The topics chosen were mostly about trains, airliners, or engineering. The most concerning part of this process was on the decision making of which topic to research on. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Choosing one topic || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Continuing from the last concerning process, the topic that was chosen through 14 hours (including while sleeping) of contemplation was the //__**History of Japan Airlines**__// . The most greatest reason this became the research topic is because this company has just faced a devastating state of bankruptcy and I believed that needed to be more focused on. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Researching on the Bankruptcy era || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times,serif; text-align: left;">Thoughts on this year of terrible financial state has proven to be very interesting. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI Sheets || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">My thoughts on this was that there were a lot of resources ranging from crash reports to the company's own web page. Although this is a great and fun topic for me, it may show that the resources might be limited and the research may be very difficult as compared to other subjects. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Researching the reviews of the people || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">Looking at the reviews of the people, I have noticed a trend <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">in the reviews and show a bad review <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">is fairly less frequent compared to the good <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">reviews. Even though I might have said that <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">this topic may be conflicting with the research, <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">it looks like after the FQI sheets, this might be <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">easier due to the interest in this subject. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Narrative Rough Draft || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Writing the rough draft for the narrative is actually easier when typing in Japanese due to the easier flow of the storyline and the ideas and the character traits. The complications found in this process is definitely the translation error and the lack of story when typing this. I might have to edit this a lot when I finish this thing..... ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Pondering of Genres || This process was one of the hardest in the project because of the infinite possibilities the genres can pose to create my wiki. I have decided to make multiple and edit them to the wiki to make it look nice on June 7th. I might work on a comic, poster, commercial, poem, song, list, ATC transmission, and so on. I would most likely not work on all of them though..... ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Logo and Comic work || I have started working on the logo using the main character and started on the comic of this character's work day. I have planned that this may be connected to the list I am working on and is a sequel part to the narrative. Please do not criticize why I had this idea in the first place though..... ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || Going through additional sources of JAL 123 || A video I found on YouTube of JAL 123's crash has inspired me to do something different and to do maybe a poster on the single largest airliner crash in history to honor those who had prepared as they burst on to the mountains of Gunma. I may make a poster or change the song plan from doing a history overview song to a crash memorial. I also may have given up on the comic idea because putting the pen in is too difficult for my tastes and I have terrible ways of placing straight lines in. So now, the genres would be poem, narrative, poster, timeline, and song. I may add the comic if I wanted to in the end........ ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Poster, Song Lyrics || Adding translation to songs is pretty hard considering that I have to convert the song beats with English as well. I still thin it was easier than the comic though. The only complication is the creating process of the poster due to it's need of pizzazz or "flashyness". The timeline could be done and so can the Comparison chart within an hour with some revision. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',serif; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** ||  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,serif;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,serif;">What facts about your topic interested you most? Did this kind of project help you get a better understanding of your topic than you might have with a more traditional kind of research paper? If so, why and in what ways did it help?
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,serif;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,serif;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,serif;">How did you decide on the organization of the pieces into a cohesive whole? Consider not only organization but use of transitional devices and packaging.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 12px;">Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project,// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; text-align: center;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Score A Date 5/28** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_ 10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Score B ___ Date 6/5__** _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

___8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted.__ ___5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors.__ ___ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring.__

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date 6/9 27 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: 22px; text-align: center;">**Plus** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_5-6 points Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.