Purpose Statement

Global Education Foundation is a newly established non-profit organization. It does not yet have its own website to present its programs,policies, goals, and activities to the public. Since the audience will be diverse, I am going to build a website that is highly user friendly and accessible to the larger public.

Writing Process

The book's claim that it is one of the best resources from the best people is largely true. Sometimes simple looking ideas are really very important. This is true about the essays in the first part of the book. All of them deal with the idea of the process of writing from different angles or perspectives.
What I found interesting is the focus of almost all of the writers on the importance of "revision" in writing process. Normally many people submit their writings without going through it twice. If they do revision it is just nothing more than proofreading. But in all the essays here, the writers have given more importance to revision than "writing." Adelstein's division of time for the different elements of writing process clearly demonstrates this idea:
1. Worrying -- 15%
2. Planning -- 10%
3. Writing -- 25%
4. Revising -- 45%
5. Proofreading -- 5%
(Re)Thinking (worrying, planning, ...) prior to the actual writing and thinking after it (revising, proofreading) require more than 75% of the time. Thinking gives proper shape to the writing where as revising reshuffles it to adjust to the broader (global) rhetorical needs and local mechanical considerations.
"Revision is painful: removing pet phrases and savory sentences is like getting rid of rherished possessions" (17). But the end product after this painful process is quite satisfying. The fact that one of the best prose writers of the 20th century,Hemingway revised "the last page of A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied" clearly shows how important it is.
I agree with Adelstein's idea that we need to be both the writer and a critic. We need to distance ourselves from our writing so that we can see the mistakes and improve it. If we see our own reading from the reader's perspective, we can make several changes to the rhetorical choices we have made to suit to the needs of the audience, which marks the successful writing. Elbow also supports this by dividing the total available time into two halves for writing and revising.

Project ideas

I am completely in an initial phase about picking up a project idea. However, I have a few vague ideas for the client project. The first is that I want to create a website for a non-profit educational organization that is going to be established soon. The major purpose of this organization is to help the bright students of poor families around the globe. The primary focus in the beginning will be in helping children from the remote parts of Nepal. However, the problem is whether the officials of the organization will be able to provide necessary content for the website so that I can develop a reasonably good website.
Second, I am also in a stage of writing a proposal for master's thesis. It also requires us to satisfy certain conventions about format, language, and arrangement of ideas. So, it can also be one option for writing a technical document.
Third, if I can find any client who needs to prepare a brochure, that also can be one good option. I am interested in learning desktop publishing skills. This can be a good opportunity to learn and practice the use of In-Design.