For this blog post I have written a midterm reflection for myself in 3rd person. The purpose of this reflection is to make me better for the rest of the course. To help me write this reflection I used the reading Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection
It is the end of week eight in this English Composition Course. That means half of the semester has gone by. For half of a semester Ani Tapia has had many experiences. He has also learned many things from these experiences. One thing Ani has learned about are symbols. To help him learn he read the reading “Hills Like White Elephants” (Ernest Hemingway). While reading this Ani was able to see the symbols Ernest Hemingway used. For example, he saw that Ernest used a table to symbolise an operating table, or gray clouds to symbolise a bad event. However even with readings like this, Ani struggles to stay consistent on developing symbols in his writings. Some of his writings have clear symbols, while others don’t. An example of when Ani used symbols was in his blog post titled “Composing a Present Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism”. In this post Ani used a broken wheel on a shopping cart to symbolise his tendency to easily give up. On other writings Ani struggles to develop a good symbol. For example, in his blog post titled “Composing a Past Scene” he tries to symbolise the crumbled relationship between him and his mother by using crumbled green grass, and green symbolising growth. Another thing he struggled with was finding topics to write about. Since most of his writing has been about his life, he has struggled to come up with topics other find interesting and read instead of skipping through. This has resulted in last minute topic changes in more than 95% of his blog post including his narrative project. Fortunately, it hasn't all been negative. There have been some positive experiences. Throughout the course a main learning topic has been creating scenes. Through readings like “Making Scenes in Memoir” (Lee Martin) Ani has learned that to make a scene requires using sensory details. He’s also learned that to get a reader's attention, he has to start his writings by diving straight to the scene and giving context later. Ani has shown this growth through out his blog posts and narrative project. In his early blog posts like “Presentation Day” didn’t dive straight to the scene but rather begin by describing the setting. This is not the case with his narrative project in which Ani goes right in. Going forward, Ani has made a couple of intrinsic goals for himself. His first goal is to keep practicing the stuff he struggled with in the first half of the semester. This includes developing more symbols in his writings. Another goal is to find better motivation. Ani has missed a couple of deadlines this semester which shows that his current motivations might not be enough. These were Ani Tapia’s experiences through out the first semester.
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Sabatino
10/25/2018 12:03:14 pm
I appreciate how you references specific texts and assignments to organize and support your reflective conversation. I also notice you chose to compose this reflection in third person.How did it feel to take on that risk?
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