Academic Writing For VR Technology: A Review Of 360-degree VR Technology In Clouds Over Sidra

Process of Academic Writing

Discuss about the Academic Writing for VR Technology.

The selected academic writing is a review on the 360-degree VR technology used in a short-documentary film “Clouds over Sidra”. The writing has been produced in an essay format, which requires proof reading and editing in parts due to some incongruence in the writing style.

For academic writing, I followed the process of academic writing in congruence with Paltridge et al. (2009). According to the referred framework, I followed the systematic procedures of conceptualizing, formulating, revising and reading. In the first place, I interpreted the movie as per my understanding on this discipline area. My dealing with the movie was rather subjective and abstract. After that, I chose to relate my interpretation to several authors of this field to make the interpretation precise.

In order to produce the final writing product some I followed certain steps that include pre-writing stage, composition and post writing stage. For me, the primary task in pre-writing stage was to gain a comprehensive knowledge on VR technology and then I watched the movie and tried to understood how effectively the movie has incorporated this new revolutionary technology in its space. Next, the task for me was to review literature available in the earlier researches. I found that the literature review has been useful in gaining an outlook on the future prospect of this technology and then incorporating it in the writing. The evaluation of the literature has also helped me to understand how the application of 360-degree VR technology appeals to the senses of the audience and establishes a direct communication with them. Thereafter, in the next step I took down details from the movie and attempted a detailed analysis on how the application of this technology has enhanced the film experience.  I came across that the analysis pertain a critical view that would judge each scene of the movie and then analyzed the effectiveness of VR technology used in that scene and critically considered the difference that has been brought by the technology usage in comparison to a traditional story telling. In the final stage of pre-writing, I planned and outlined the structure of the essay to make the task of composition easier.

The second stage is called composition or drafting stage when I accomplished the actual task of writing the essay. However, it is quite usual to have some flaws in the first attempt of writing and hence, the post writing stage was required. This stage included the procedures of revision, editing and proofreading. In the post writing stage, I essentially adopted a critical and analytic perspective on the draft and in the first place, reread the entire essay once again. In this stage, I emphasized preference on reading aloud as this enabled me to identify the flaws at the time of reading more easily. In the second step, I began the task of editing concentrating on some particular procedures. First, I replaced the ‘to be’ verbs with more strong and impactful ones and eliminated the over-used words. Next, I rather focused on usage of words to avoid clichés in expression. Some lines were not appropriate and meaningful in the context and hence, I felt it necessary to slash them. Besides, at the time of reading I found out that, some paragraphs were not in harmony and that linking words between paragraphs and sentences were highly missing. Therefore, I made all these changes to elevate the writing to the academic standard. In the final stage, I took up the task of proofreading. In this stage, I marked up the changes made, then double-checked all the details and after making the remaining corrections, I was able to produce the final copy of writing.

Pre-writing Stage

This method was an effective process for me to follow because of certain reasons, which involves a number of comprehending power and capabilities. The process had enhanced the aspects of my academic writing and the flow of actions, which has comparatively being involved with the drafting, composing and conceptualizing, rather than random flow of process.  These methodologies have been involved in a number of instances, which aids in realizing the best of the practices and which helped me in developing a brief overview about the subject matter. One of the most efficient intentions of following this process is to accentuate and augment the academic writing procedures, which will enable the proper and appropriate use of syntax and lexicons.

The analysis of comprehension by me includes both the stem of the appropriate writing and reading is essential for this piece of writing. Therefore, the efficacy of the four methods is significant which helps me in following a pattern that involves the tools and infrastructures of the following scenario.  In order to improve the aspects of the technological involvement in a creative approach the methods that have been followed by me involves the proper usage of linguistic expressions. The language was not academically standard. Due to the result of following this approach, a number of modifications have taken place for instances like some verbs and words were changed and sentence construction errors were rectified. I have applied and incorporated these modifications, the impacts of which are visible in the outcome of the essay. In fact the long sentences needed splitting otherwise it could act like a complicated set of statements which have been improved by me through following all the approaches in regards to the following subject matter.

I have enabled my language learning competencies and abilities that have allowed the usage of the best linguistic expression of the essay. This is essential for delivering a compact and easily comprehensible piece of information, which contributes to the success of this presentation by me. Although there are, some alternatives, which could have, lead to a better result rather than conforming to the rules. The piece or the presentation could have been more useful and utilized by me if more time could have been allowed for understanding the type and category of efficient writing. The method could have been more appropriate if my responding capability to the effectiveness of the knowledge about this topic could have led to the changes that have been brought about by the instantaneous tendencies of academic writing and grammar. The alternatives, which could have aided the process involves the incorporation of better ideas like jargons of the morphological representations, grammatical features etc.  These features best analyses, the situation as it composes of the literary as well as the linguistics skills required in an essay. It is essentially important for the purpose of the scenario, which could have lead to a refined set of the presentation on the use of Virtual Reality for the experience of filmmaking. In fact, some cases like avoiding redundancies could have also influenced as a great practice that have been resilient to the approaches of the informative write-up that have been drafted by me. Often cases like linking words between paragraphs and sentences were highly missing which have been involved as a proofreading approach, which could have influenced the whole topic.

Composition Stage

The draft created by me entails a combination of both the academic along with the discipline-based writing, as the involvement with the whole topic is important for the tendencies that have been achieved by me in respect of the specific requirement. Therefore, the mixed approaches have been helpful to the fact that without the specific knowledge of the scenario the jargons and tools of technical writing could not be applied to the procedures. This method was an effective process to follow because of certain reasons, which involves a number of comprehending power and capabilities. The process had enhanced the aspects of academic writing and the flow of actions, which has extensively being involved by me with the different approaches of drafting, composing and conceptualizing, rather than random flow of process. 

These methodologies have been involved in a number of instances, which aids in realizing the best of the practices, which helps me in deriving a brief overview about the concerned subject matter. One of the most efficient intentions of following this process is to accentuate and augment the academic writing procedures by me, which will enable the proper and appropriate use of syntax and lexicons. The analysis of comprehending, and including both the stem of the appropriate writing and reading is essential for this piece of writing. Therefore, the efficacy of the four methods is significant which helps in following a pattern that involves the tools and infrastructures of the following scenario.  On the other hand, in order to arrange and involve the constituents of an incredible piece of information I have to simultaneously lead the impacts that have coordinated to the best of the phenomenon by following both the academic and subject specific writing.

In light of framework by Paltridge et al. (2009), I started with the ‘conceptualizing’ stage for accomplishing the task of academic writing. Conceptualizing is the first of the four stages in sub-process and it refers to generating new ideas that might have been used in the given text, opting the preferred ideas that may be used and thereby arranging them to develop a structured text. As this stage was followed, I carried out drawing based on knowledge, maintenance of coherence and relevance and expressing further insight into the text. In the next stage of formulating, I transformed these ideas into sentences. According to the third stage of sub-process, I revised both the conceptual and formulated contents and amended the flaws like adding more ideas or correcting the typing and grammatical errors. In this context, as stated by Paltridge et al. (2009), revisions could have been done at any stage but I preferred to revise in this stage for my own convenience.  The revisions set a different perspective to the essay and allow rectifying and being congruent to the changes caused in the essay. In the end, I followed the last stage of the sub-process i.e. reading my written essay once again to look for any opportunity to include new ideas and eliminate any kind of problems in the writing (Morley-Warner 2010). This reading procedure after printing the written essay document helped me detect problems in my own writing and this is how I developed my interpretation of the movie “Clouds over Sidra” into writing.

References:

Morley-Warner, T., 2010. Academic Writing is–: A Guide to Writing in a University Context. Association for Academic Language and Learning.

Paltridge, B., Harbon, L., Hirsch, D., Shen, H., Stevenson, M., Phakiti, A., and Woodrow L., 2009. Teaching academic writing, University of Michigan Press.