As the semester comes to a close, it's time that I reflect on this class and how it's treated me these past few months.
I've had a lot of eye opening experiences- whether they were long talks about political conspiracies (I learned some pretty crazy stuff about how corrupt America is from those) in ALP or Professor Mangini ranting about how we didn't learn a single useful thing about attention grabbing, personal writing in high school, all were overall helpful for me and progressing myself as a student and writer. Even though I still struggled to get out of the manipulative hold of procrastination down to even my last post on this blog, what I liked most about this class is that that never stopped me from receiving honest, most of the time positive, feedback regardless. I knew that if I was facing personal issues, was working so much I couldn't even THINK about school work, or was just down right lazy- if I tried hard enough and put the time in when that creative spark WAS there, my efforts would pay off and it wouldn't effect my overall progress in the class. I think to a lot of college students, we feel it's important that our effort and creativity should be acknowledged (as well as acknowledge when the effort isn't there) or else we feel a sense of hopelessness or constantly questioning if what we're doing is enough. In this class, our professor never failed to do so. As well as teaching us and using our assignments on a new form of media for us to delve into, such as this website portfolio, to expand our knowledge and techniques preparing us steadily for what's ahead of us in the rest of our college careers. I admired this class and enjoyed having it to remember as my first experience at Delaware County Community College.
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This is probably the most exciting yet equally dreadful post yet. Yes, I filmed a video blog or "vlog" as some might say for this week's assignment. In this (I'm sorry in advance) 11 minute long video, I'll just be talking about how this class helped me break from my tense relationship with writing assignments I've had in high school, how it grew to become what it is now and discovering my writerly identity. I also go on to say some habits I need to work on going forward and also what class sessions and readings have helped me improve my own writing. I also want to add that when reflecting on my goals towards the very end of the video, I didn't think beforehand what exactly my goals were... you can see me internally panic and end the video before I could say the last goal because I didn't want to sit there in silence trying to muster something up on the spot, LOL. So, I'll say here that my final goal for the rest of the semester is to not be afraid to ask more questions that can help me improve my work EVEN MORE on top of what I'm already doing for revision. I tend to hold back from asking certain questions in fear of sounding ridiculous, but going forward I also won't censor myself in that aspect as well! Thanks for reading as always now enjoy the painfully awkward video! During week seven, I will be creating a found poem using words and/or excerpts from the 1st draft of my narrative project. The poem creates a creative summary of the topic of my narrative. It tells the story but through phases rather than full sentences. This post will be broken up into two sections, the poem itself and a reflection. I admire this assignment because it’s helped me pick possible themes for my story in the process of finding the phrases. Still not quite sure what a found poem is? Read a sample. The genre of my poem will be freeform excerpting and remixing.
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AuthorHi! I'm Taylor Kriebel, a current student at Delaware County Community College. You're currently reading my blog assignments from my English Composition I class. Enjoy! Archives
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