Response to Reading TWIF pp. 103-136

"Apache is one of the most successful open-source tools, powering about two thirds of the Web sites in the world. Apache can be dowloaded for free anywhere in the world, Russia to South Africa use it to create websites."
"Community-Developed Answers: Collabnet-uses a community development as a tool to drive software innovation within companies. Creates a secure Website where those with a password can go and see the source of the sofware and the defects that need to be addressed and participate in a discussion among engineers, product managers and customer support on how it can be improved. "
"Wikipedia- Community uploaded content: user contributed online encyclopedia also known as the peoples encyclopedia. wiki is hawaiian for "quick"."
These programs and topics discussed within in the section of the World is Flat talk about the internet and the programs that allow people from all over the world work together to solve problems or contribute to something. Wikipedia is a great example of people collaborating to share information or correct eachother. Although there is some downsides to this( not knowing if the information at that particular time is correct or not), the program is useful and helpful.
Rate my professors is another example of the community sharing that goes on over the internet. Students let other students know how a teacher is, there are schools listed from all over. These topics and programs that are discussed in the chapter are, to the author, huge world flatteners. Bringing together the world, people from all over to one place sharing and converging.

Response to "The Maker's Eye"

For me, the reading seemed to clear a lot of ideas concerning writing and revising. These ideas on editing and fixing the mistakes I made on previous drafts always seemed to me as a hassle and something that took more time than wanted. Of course, I also knew that editing was necessary to achieve a well written piece of work. After reading "The Maker's Eye", it was made clear to me that revising is so much more essential that I had thought before. There are so many things to consider that I never really noticed them before. These things (such as audience, meaning, form, etc.) was clearly put into words and examples in the reading and it helped me understand what the specifics are that I need to look at when I go revise my essays. Personally, I have never really considered the first draft as something concrete and certain. I see it as the draft that lays everything out, giving out all my most basic ideas. And then, it is when the final draft comes along that I focus on the little details, along with the bigger picture, and make the essay or writing the best Ican.

Response to the Reading

Maker's Eye-Donald M. Murray.
This essay, located in the reader, was about how people usually think of writer's and their writing process and how it actually is. Most people believe the writing process is very easy for a lot of writers and that students usually feel after the 1st draft "their job of writing is done".
I once too thought that the writing process was very easy for a lot of professional authors, I knew it wasn't easy for me, but I thought that writers were so good that they only had to writer whatever they were writing once and they were done. After reading the essay in the reader, I've found out this is not the case. Peter Drucker, a business writer, considers the first draft the "zero draft". To many writers "the words on a page are never finished", I can relate(being an artist, with the drawing process, I feel my work is never finished and I always want to fix it).
Anthony Burgess, famous writer of A Clockwork Orange< admits "I might revise a page twenty times." Roald Dahl stated "By the time I'm nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least 150 times...Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this." I definitely agree with all the writer's and the reader's statements, as I can both relate being an artist and when I write papers.