Writing into the Day, 09/01/2015Writing into the day was an activity done at the beginning of almost every class that we had this semester, and it could be from very different topics.
The question for this writing into the day was: "What is your initial thinking about keeping a Day Book?". I decided to include this artifact because it shows how I reflected on my previous experience with keeping daybooks and how I felt about it when the semester was just starting. Also, I think it shows some of my basic English, which is the way I tend to write whenever the assignment requires improvisation. I think that this piece made me stop and think if I still feel in this way after having a new daybook for an entire semester, and my feelings about it are encountered. I still think that keeping a daybook reminds me to when I was a child and is a little overwhelming now that I'm in college. However, it also allowed me to see how my thought process has changed among the past two or three months. Thanks to the daybook, I can see that I actually learned more things during this semester than I thought I did, and that makes me feel both proud and happy. |
Writing of the Day, 10/01/2015The question for this writing into the day was:
"Reflecting on the Inquiry Proposal. Now that you’ve finished this assignment, let’s reflect on how you worked as a writer. What did you notice about your writing process? Were there times when you got stuck? If so, what did you do to get “unstuck”? Again, thinking about your writing process, what did you do well this time? Try to think about your reaction to this paper when it was first assigned versus now that you’ve completed it. What can you remember about your initial thoughts? What are your thoughts now?" I chose to include this writing into the day because it is a reflection that I did on my own work, and it was around the middle of the semester. By this time, I already had some knowledge on my inquiry topic, which was The Nuremberg Trials, because we had been working on some research for a few weeks. Also, I had done an Inquiry proposal in my previous University Writing class, so I had a good idea of what should I do for this one. I think I did a good job, but I wasn't so sure about it by the time that I submitted it. I think that this artifact that I chose is very interesting because, even when it was improvised writing, it was about something that I had just done a few days before so all the ideas are very specific. I think that this activity helped me a lot later on in the semester, because eventually we had to deliver a final proposal, and to do that I checked this writing into the day just so I could make sure that everything was right. As a matter of fact, since this activity was reflective, it prepared me for other writings that we did later on in the semester and I find that very important in the progress I did as a writer. |
Writing into the Day, 10/29/2015The question for this writing into the day was: "The Danger of a Single Story," Chimamanda Adiche. How does the idea of a single story connect to the Holocaust? Now think about the single story in relation to your own life. What group have you had a "single story" about? When has a group had a single story about you?"
I included this artifact in my portfolio, because is an activity done inside the classroom that was interesting and different to the things that we usually did. This writing into the day was based on a video that I had actually watched in my previous University Writing class, so it wasn't exactly new content for me. However, since the context of the things that I had been writing in my UWRT 1102 was very different to the ones that I did for my UWRT 1101 made have a new perspective at the time that I saw the video again. The part that I like the best about this activity is the kind of reflection that I wrote, because I have re-read it several times and I couldn't agree more with myself -which sounds very selfish-. I think that this assignment made me realize that a change in perspectives can mean a huge change in the way we write and, even more important, in the way that we think about a situation. This piece is very special to me for this reasons, and also because it shows a better use of my English language than the one I had in my firsts writing into the day. I just think that for me, being able to read this short writing and realizing that I grew as a person and as a writer means much more than I can explain, and that is probably one of the more valuable lessons that I took from this class: We are always learning new things, absorbing them without even knowing that we are. |