This repurposing project was extremely valuable to me. It challenged me academically and personally by stretching my mind creatively and logistically. Below you will see the complete progression of the project:

 

Repurposing Proposal --> Draft 1 --> Feedback --> Final Version

 

My original proposal and first draft are vastly different from my final version. I wanted to include the peer and instructor feedback I received so you could better understand how I went from my proposal and first draft to a completely different final version, which was modeled after the Wall Street Jouranl management section:

 

 

 

The peer and professor reviews as well as my personal revision process drove me to revise this piece several times before I was competely satisifed with my work. The feedback from my peers was instrumental in realizing that I need to spell out the issues I am discussing because not everyone is a student at the Ross School of Business like myself. Prior to this realization, I was taking my knowledge of the business world for granted. I made changes to illustrate what exactly business students are experiencing in the recruiting process for internships. 

 

My peers supported me by encouraging me to continue with this topic even when the going got tough because they could see my passion in this topic. Their encouragement was extremely helpful, especially when I decided to completely restructure my topic right before the draft was due, and then again when I was re-structuring my draft quite a bit before the final version. I know that in my original draft, I focused more on women's equality and paralleled my topic to the Always campaign #LikeAGirl, but after re-reading and analyzing the best way to reach my audience, I decided to get rid of that parallel and instead align my article more with the culture that is helping Google thrive as a company.

 

My professor's comments were probably the most helpful in helping me identify the direction of my paper. Her advice  to "pull out significant moments and then build off of that" was a crucial part of my revision process. When I sat down to work on my draft, I went through and highlighted main points and phrases that resonated with my passion and direction of my topic. From there, I was able to build off of those specific points and narrow down my paper so that the direction was clear and effective. I think the main thing I am feeling unsure of regarding my progress is how hard this article is "hitting home" for both women and men in the recruiting process. I want students and employers to have that "a-ha" moment where they realize that support for gender equality is crucial to success but that it must be combined with a dynamic, creative culture. I tend to be really hard on my writing, so it's hard for me to measure my success in that regard as of now, but I would appreciate feedback on how you think this will impact my target audience.

 

Finally, I feel really good about my progress regarding the re-structuring and direction of my article. After realizing that using Google as a parallel with my research and analysis would be more effective than focusing solely on women's equality in the workplace, everything really fell into place.  Defining three main categories of people that I wanted to reach helped me tremendously and really made the directiono of my piece crystal clear.

 

I am very passionate about this topic and I want to continue working on it so that I can actually submit it to the WSJ or at the very least a local publication such as The Michigan Daily, because I feel this needs to be heard.