ACTIVITY 9.11
Sharing your Analysis

The final activity of this project is sharing your narrative with real readers. Once again, depending on the technological setup of your institution, you have a number of options.

Option 1: Sharing Hard Copies

This is the option to which you are probably most accustomed. Print several copies of your final version and distribute them to the peers who read the various drafts of your analysis. If your peers shared their drafts with you, be sure to send them an E-mail message with your thoughts on the final result of all your hard, collaborative efforts. When replying to your peers' final versions, you need not offer more critical feedback. Just tell them your favorite parts, what you learned that you didn't know before, and so on. By praising their work and offering them a virtual pat on the back, you increase your chances of receiving favorable reviews of your analysis.

Option 2: Sharing Electronic Texts

By now you have plenty of experience sharing texts electronically. As when you shared your drafts, you can do a few things:

Send your final version to your draft reviewers as E-mail or an E-mail attachment. When you receive final versions from others, be sure to reply with sincere words of praise and encouragement.

Post your final version as an article on a newsgroup if your teacher has set one up for your class.

If you have the technological access and ability at this point to construct your own site on the World Wide Web, "publish" your analysis there. Chapter 5 offers a brief introduction to constructing Web pages. In Chapter 12 you will find more suggestions for constructing a Web site of your work.