While drafting this piece it was important for me as an athlete to get the point across that the athletes here at UNE do struggle with their dining options and not everyone realizes that. For me personally as a first year it was hard to adjust and would have been helpful to know going into school for what I needed to prepare for and I wanted others to be able to understand this as well. Since I have a personal experience in this matter, my article was shown to be biased which makes sense but I hadn’t noticed until we had our workshop so that helped me out a lot with figuring out phrases to use to keep an unbiased opinion on my topic. When revising my work and going through the notes that people gave me during our workshop in class it definitely opened my eyes to smaller errors that I wouldn’t have/ didn’t notice when I was going through it myself. It also gave insight to people who were not athletes in our class of how athletes have to prepare dinner on their own instead of getting the dining hall or other food options. For me when writing my final draft, there was a breakthrough with things I should have dived deeper into which helped push my story to the next level and be better than before. Diving deeper into the ideas of student workers and how even though the dining hall closes at 8, they have to stay and put in the work for clean up and closing which takes a lot longer than people realize. They are also students too so they have homework and other commitments as well that they have to push through after their work schedule. Overall, my feature creature story started off as just talking to my teammates about dinner options and realized it was multiple athletes that had to go through the same thing and it became a perfect topic for an article. And through revisions and the workshops it got shaped into being a true article that helped non-athletes understand what we have to go through.
