How to Live in Cincinnati....

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfb846rz_3c3pwv2cv
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfb846rz_4fs9ptdtz

First off, I would like to note that only Charles and Sarah emailed me their parts of this guide. Ashley was supposed to write about the geography of Cincinnati, explaining east vs west side, and Gustavo was supposed to write about food in Cincinnati.

Without those two other parts I felt like this guide was empty. What's Cincinnati without our own unique tradional foods? And without those two parts I feel like this guide would fall flat. But we're not publishing it so that's all right then.

The three of us had gone over our papers in class deciding how we wanted it to sound even though we decided to write them separately. I obviously wanted the history of Cincinnati to be the beginning of the guide so that it would be like an introduction for all the other sections. Then transportation to tell us the layout of the city itself, and finally entertainment so that now that we know about the city and where we should live and how we will travel, we know to where we can travel.

I changed one notable thing in Charles's transportation section. He wrote "My advice is..." (on getting a metro card, and I changed it to "It may be wise..." because the rest of the guide is not written in first person and it stuck out like a sore thumb the change in voice.

Another thing I changed was in my section (the history) I ended it with a question. When I put all three sections together I felt like mine was separate from the other two. I wasn't sure how to make it flow. The other two sections explained situations or experiences that you can have while living in the city, whereas mine is just an overview of the city. I wanted the reader (college students- this guide could be found at TUC or any student information center on the Campus) to apply the history to themselves, what can they bring to this city? How will they shape it?

One final note, I didn't care for this project all too much because I don't like doing writing projects with groups. I hate to have other people rely on me and I hate having to rely on other people. I understand the necessity of having different writers so we may find a way to have our writing flow, but as a writer this is not a preferred method for me. Sorry!

(I do think our guide turned out well though :) yay!)