Final Reflection- 12/12

     When I think of "wobble" as learning, or moments of wobble in this class, I notice that English is the subject in which I come across these moments most often. 

     When given an assignment that offers the freedom to write about any topic, I find myself unsure or hesitant to start writing sometimes. This created moments of wobble for me when thinking of the topic for my literacy narrative and on the occasional writing into the day. When I'm told that there's no right or wrong answer to something, it's sometimes frustrating when I don't know where to begin. I usually like to have guidelines for an assignment so I know when I'm thinking in the right direction. It was a challenge to work with this kind of assignment at first but I got used to it after completing a few of them.

     The only other moments that were uncomfortable, or different than I am used to, were some of the improv activities that we did at the beginning of class. I felt like this was an uncomfortable or strange thing for most people in the class at first. People can be hesitant to do something when they're unsure of what is expected of them, which can also explain the first moments of wobble that I explained.

     

Reflexive Blog- Literacy Narrative 12/5

     Whenever I get an assigned a paper that offers some freedom when it comes to what to write about, I find myself taking far too long on deciding just that. Luckily for me, this literacy narrative assignment really helped me out with this problem. The activity we did on index cards at the beginning stages of this assignment  forced me to get out as many ideas as I could and either stick with one or move on to the next one. I eventually chose to write about a research paper that I wrote during my junior year of high school, and I noticed it was a topic I'd been thinking about since the first index card.

             


     Once I went through and got my entire first draft written out, I started to think about exactly what I had to change. In all of the major papers I have written, I've never really noticed the biggest changes in between drafts. I was just used to going through and correct errors while changing up a few paragraphs trying to make the paper flow more smoothly.



     When we were given the revision strategies, I decided to try some of them out and see if I could come up with any changes to my paper that I liked. The strategy that I found to be the most beneficial to me was definitely going though and criticizing my paper for three minutes, then praising my work for three minutes. Doing this really helped me get a better feeling of what I liked having in the paper and which parts I felt like I should try to rewrite.

     After revising the ideas that I wanted to make changes to, I focused on the organization and flow of my paper. I tried rewriting the first draft that I wrote using a different method of organization. I ending up staying with a sequence of events that was pretty close to my first draft through the whole project. I couldn't get myself to stay with many major changes that I tried. I did find it helpful to map out the parts of my paper in my daybook when I tried to rearrange it.
     This project was beneficial to me in many ways. I learned some new strategies for revision and ways to think in a different direction when feeling stuck with an idea. I also liked the way that this project made me realize what impact the research paper I wrote about actually had on me, and how it affected how I feel about my literacy.                               

Reflexive Blog- Ethnography Project- 12/3

     Our groups were figuring out what we were going to write about for our project while the idea of "underlife" was unfolding. With our original topic of "Words", my group started to try to find a common theme that we could work toward. After our mapping literacy assignment, we decided to write about the theme of public expression.

     This required some revision down the road but the idea of our theme seemed to flow smoothly during the process of putting our project together. I enjoyed working in collaborative groups the way that we did because it gave us an opportunity to constantly give and receive feedback on our ideas as we figured out how to piece our project together.

     I liked the fact that this project wasn't done as a traditional essay. Our group chose to use Prezi for our final product. I would definitely chose to work differently on a computer than turn this project in essay format. This way, we had an opportunity to be more creative and try things differently.