#final reflection?

“When one chapter closes another opens.”

I would like to start off by saying thank you. I have learned a lot throughout this class which I think will help me greatly though my career and the other blog I am Admin of. The writing process used to be something I dreaded and I have realized why. I used to see writing as a all or nothing, like I had to write my entire essay in one go and it had to be perfect. In reality writing is a step by step process. Like all other things, I was able to talk to you about my out of school hobbies and I realized writing, I exactly the same as making a sweater. I do not just make a whole sweater in one go. I make the sleeves, then the back, then the from and then I add the borders and all the extra decorations. This class has taught me to take a step back and look at the process. 

I also learned that feedback is not something I should be scared about, no one is going to judge me, and more than likely the peer reader is just tryin to help me. While writing the essay and coming up with the artifact I found them to be a bit different. I enjoyed the essay much more than I did the artifact, I had a lot of inspiration when I was writing the essay, while the artifact I have very little motivation even though it was a much easier project then the research project.

I think back to the beginning of this class and I believe week three was where I saw one of our references that really stood out to me. You had us watch a Ted Talk about sourcing. I had never really given a thought to how much someone's word can impact the integrity of a story or essay. Of course I know that was I say can impact other and such but I just tend to disregard the sources where I get my information. Obviously, there are such things as fake news and misinformation and I just took what people told me as truth. The Ted Talk got me to think before I instil the information I am given. This heavily influenced the way I conducted my research why I conducted a survey and got my information from primary sources. 

Then with my artifact I thought it best to find a way to help. I, (for some reason), have a lot of friends who want to teach English either as a second language or to college students. So I thought that this would be a good way to get students invested in writing and learning. Though the multimodal element I thought it to be a little difficult but that will hopefully become better in time. Being able to show this information to a plethora of different types of people. 

I think I am going to cut this a little short at least for now. Though I think I will try to update some more little bits and pieces of my brain to further explain my journey through this class. 

So for now I’ll keep it short and sweet.