Finding your public voice

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Final Reflection Rough Draft

I didn’t have any expectations at the start of the semester about my writing only because I had no clue what to expect. I went into class with an open mind. My number one goal was to never shy away, not entertain negative thoughts about not being able to complete an assignment, and to do my best. It was imperative to do the work, attend class and not fall behind.

My writing in the beginning felt strange to me. I was always wondering, “Where is this going? How is this assignment teaching me about writing? What will I take away?”. I honestly was always apprehensive about what I was going to write. One thing I did know was that I had to trust the process and just go with it. Now I know there was a method to the madness. In the end it all came together.

One of the things I learned about myself as a reader, writer, and scholar is that I must take all in stride, not panic and just think calmly of the task that’s being assigned. I am a very light sleeper so writing and thinking at the strangest times was definitely my jam. I enjoy and I am able to think better when the rest of the world is sleeping. I need to hear myself think and do not do well with distractions and interruptions. It may seem like I am leaving things for the last minute, but throughout the day(s) I am constantly pondering on what or how I am approaching my writing assignment. I’m a nocturnal person. During this time I am able to create positive thoughts and maintain a good attitude. It certainly helped me completing my assignments, balance home life, work, and the school semester. This is key for me to have a positive outcome.

One of my goals was to not be afraid and always ask questions if needed. To seek clarity on the assignments, and not worry about being told, “no, I can’t help you”. Another goal was to not exercise procrastination. To learn to drop what was not important and do the task at hand.

Rough draft of Final Reflection

When I was registering for my fall semester classes, I noticed that the majority of them will be in person. This made me very thrilled and eager about in-person classes. Because of covid, I haven’t been able to attend in-person classes for the last two years, and we have all had to do online classes for the last two years, which I liked at first, but as time went on, these online became a nightmare for me. Because of covid, we have lost our social lives, which makes most people depressed. After a year of online high school classes, I assumed college would include in-person classes. However, because the covid situation in New York City remains dire, CUNY has determined that the majority of fall semester sessions would be offered online. I always believe that students cannot learn as much in online classes as they do in-person classes. And my fall was completely online, and it went ok. CUNY stated soon after my fall semester that the spring semester classes will be 70% in person. After the spring semester began, the majority of my classes were in-person, and I began my first semester of college studies in-person.

This semester has made discoveries about myself as a reader, writer, and researcher. I didn’t enjoy reading long blogs, articles, or essays before this semester. When I read something lengthy, I generally look for a summary of that post or article because I feel that reading the synopsis would help me understand the full thing. But when this semester began, I had a different experience, so when I received my first essay or large assignment to write in English, and I began writing without reading or gathering appropriate materials, I was experiencing writing issues and didn’t know how to finish it. I was at a loss for words when writing it. Then, during the meeting, my instructors emphasize the need of reading the full paper before starting to write on it. Also, by reading the complete article or book, we have a deeper comprehension of the subject at hand and enhance our English. When people claim that reading and writing help me understand what I’m working on better, I believe them. It also helps in writing about it. Because of my English1121 class, I learned a lot of new things about writing, reading, and thinking, and I was able to improve my reading and writing skills. In addition, I was able to acquire foundations, and This semester in English1121, I learned several new and different reading, writing, and scholarly skills that will help me in the future.

In my English lesson, my professor has given us a lot of new information. Open lab and perusing everything have been quite useful to me. We must submit our assignments or homework here, and they will be accessible to all students in the class. So, when we upload our assignments or work in the open lab, other students can help us by pointing out mistakes that we can fix before the professor scores us. In addition, with this new idea open lab, we will be able to see and learn from our classmates’ creative efforts.

 

Unit two is the topic that I enjoyed working on the most. This was my first time performing this sort of assignment, and I learned a lot of new things while working on it. I must select a topic to work on for this project. When I select a topic, I find three sources and perform significant study. I had to use three different sources and genres because I couldn’t just choose three articles or podcasts. I chose one item, summarized it, and made a commentary on it. To do so, I must read the full article before submitting it as part of my assignment. I’m the sort of person who doesn’t like to read a lot of big articles or papers, therefore I’ve always attempted to find a short way to read the summary of any item, which has impacted my writing.So, to choose the proper article or podcast to include on this assignment, I read a lot of articles and watched a lot of podcasts and documentaries. I choose an article to write about after performing research. It helped my writing since I read the full article before utilizing it. I’m also certain that I’ll be able to write the full thing with an out item. This thing was useful in my writing. Despite the fact that I performed not so well in unit 2, I learned a lot from it. and I had a lot of fun creating this course. It will help me in the future while writing similar tasks. Because of this unit, I’ve learned a lot about world hunger. and through units 2 and 3, I attempted to enlighten my audience on world hunger and what we can do to address it.

 

And my least favorite assignment was unit 3: new audience because in this unit I had to think and create a different kind of genre, this assignment instruction is I have to create a new genre to give my message to my audience that can grab their attention, this assignment was difficult for me to complete because I had to redo this assignment several times because I wasn’t able to fulfill the requirements of this unit. But, after a long period of working on this task, I was eventually able to finish it.

 

 

 

 

RY Rough draft Reflection

If you had to compare your current self and your older self-just a few months apart, would you be able to tell any differences? What about if it was a skill you were already experienced on? Do you feel like you changed noticeably? If I had to think back about my writing in the past and compare it to the most recent writings I wrote I would say that not much has changed. However, when I put my two pieces of writing together, one from the start of the semester and one from this current month, I would be able to point out the differences. I believe that I have gotten better due to techniques like the quote sandwich and while attending this class I learned how to structure my writing better. If I had to compare and contrast my unit 1 and unit 3 work, I would say that there’s not much of a difference. However, if there was another unit, I think that it would be different due to the knowledge I have gained throughout this semester.I also think that the video comments Professor Carrie Hall made for us really helped us learn and get better because the comments were very helpful and informative, it pointed out our mistakes and how to make our writing better.

One of my favorite assignments is the unit 3 project assignment. I really enjoyed making this presentation compared to the rest of the assignments because making the presentation was entertaining and it introduced me to a website known as “Canva” which made making presentations easier and fun, if I had known of this website before, I would have definitely used it in the past. Making this project has also opened my mind towards different perspectives and different age groups. When I made the rough draft of the presentation, Professor Carrie Hall has pointed out that my presentation isn’t fourth grade friendly despite fourth grader’s being my audience. When she pointed that out, I looked back at my project and realized how much she was right. Thus making this assignment my favorite because I think I learned a lot as well as had fun. When I first started this project, I thought to myself that I should make an infographic, for it provides information needed as well as a bit of pictures to keep you enticed. However, I was wrong after reflecting back at it now. That’s why if I had to redo an assignment this would be the one I would redo. My design for this project was an infographic, fourth graders don’t really get appealed to this, so I would change up my content and design to be a comic book that follows a story with kid friendly language to help them understand the content.

My early beliefs and assumption’s about myself and my writing, is that I believed that I was a decent writer. I felt like I had a creative mind and my grammar was good. Not much has changed. While I still think I’m a decent writer, I realized that I didn’t have much technique. One of the noticeable things I can point out about my writing from early on this semester, is that when I quote something, I usually explain it a little bit and leave it at that. However, I learned that the quote sandwich technique, were I introduce the quote, quote it, and then explain it. I used to barely explain my quotes and rarely analyzed it, an example of this would be on my unit 2 project, “Video Games and Benefits”, I quoted, “They also found, “Children who played a lot of video games were also found to be 1.88 times more likely to have “high overall school competence” (Bolton 2016).  This quote states that video games improve your intellectual functioning as well as your school competence by more than 1.5x for both.” While this was just a month ago, I noticed that my explanation is extremely short and there’s not much analysis. While Professor Carrie Hall told us that the explanation and analysis should be longer than the quote its self, this did not happen during my unit 2 project. Which is why I would say that the quote sandwich technique is a really nice technique to know and I believe that it will transfer over after this semester ends.

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