Wobble

I had a really good experience with English 1101. Lacy was such a good teacher and she made us do assignments in such a creative way. There were a few times in the class that I had some trouble though..  Most weeks we had to read something and write about it for homework. I know it sounds bad, but it is really hard for me to read something I am not interested in. I was always wondering if I should read the whole thing, answer all the questions, in the end I always did. But I struggled every time I had to read a new one week by week. Another thing that I had uncertainty about was the library project. "What floor do I go on?" "How do I find a book I want?" "What book is good for this project?" I had so many unanswered questions. I was happy Lacy put us in groups so my group members could help me with all my questions. They were unsure about a lot of things too, but we just rolled with the flow. There were things we weren't sure of, but did anyway. Lacy is really good with grading, so we weren't to worried about doing things wrong. As long as all the criteria was met, we would be okay. I also had some uncertainty with the literacy narrative. "What should I write about?" "Does it have to be about writing?" "Does it have to be in MLA format?" We wrote down things on note cards that we would want to write about. I was so back and forth on my ideas and just decided to go with my debate class because I did a lot of writing in that class. My ethnography project was tough too! I had no idea what I was doing. My group members also helped me with this project! "What topic do I choose?' "How should we show the class our project? We decided to do a scrap book and I think it came out really well!  I'm happy I went through all my "wobble" moments, they made me a better student. The class was fun, and had the right amount of work involved!

Literacy Narrative

The literacy narrative paper was a fun paper to write because it was all about me. I didn't have to search through the internet for information. All the information came from my brain. It was tough at first, trying to figure out what I wanted to write about. I had a lot of different ideas. But, I figured I would write about something that had to go with writing. I thought long and hard about something significant in my life that had to do with writing. I decided to write about my debate class because it has influenced my writing, and my writing ability so much. The revision was the fun part. At first I just had ideas on a notecard. I then wrote a few things about my debate class in my daybook. In my first draft I mentioned things that were important about the class. I liked what I wrote, but I knew my second draft needed to be different. 
     Instead of started from the beginning I started from the end of my story. I then incorporated things I didn't incorporate in the first draft. When revised my second draft I used dome strategies from the homework on october 4th. I chose a point in my narrative that seemed to lack something. I thought of the moment over and over in my head and rewrote the part to sound like the person was there. I also worked with a partner and told them the story without looking at my paper, my partner (roommate) wrote down notes of what I was saying. We then switched and I did the same for her. By looking at her notes, I got to ad things to my paper, I almost completely forgot even happened. I also did a rapid read, where I read through my paper pretty fast, and anything that seemed uninteresting I took out. There were so many unnecessary things I took out, and the paper sounded so much better. When I wrote my final draft I just meshed both my first and second draft together to make the final product.
    Editing my work was the hard part. I sat there for a while thinking about how I should go about editing my paper. I sat there and highlighted everything that didn't sound right, or where I thought there was something wrong. I went back after I highlighted the whole paper and chose whether to leave it or change it. Most of the editing was silly stuff like commas or wrong punctuation. I did find some mistakes where I spelled things wrong or the sentence just didn't make sense.
    I enjoyed writing this paper. I don't think I've ever had to write a whole paper about whatever I wanted to write about. It gave me a chance to tell my story and be creative about it. I was never one to really like writing, but I had fun with this paper. It brought back memories, and I really liked walking myself through  that whole semester again.

Ethnography

 The pictures above, were all a part of my groups scrapbook, but these were the pages I was in charge of doing. It was difficult to figure out what we wanted to write about. Because we had expression, we really could've wrote about anything. We thought that writing about Organizations, Music and Tattoos would be different and interesting.  It was hard revising our work because we chose to do the scrapbook. We had to write a lot of ideas down before we could actually put them in the book. We talked with Lacy a few times about what should we incorporated in the book and what was important and what wasn't. We all had interviews, but thought pictures were a better way to show our work because were doing a SCRAP BOOK. There is always good and bad when working in a collaborative group. It was really hard to discuss how far we were, or what needed to be done when a group member wasn't present. In most cases the bulk of the work gets stuck with one person in the group, and thats why I normally don't like doing group work. In this case, we had a little trouble, but everything came together nicely. I absolutely loved doing non traditional work. It makes the project SOOO much more fun and interesting. I really had a good time picking out the pictures and scrapbook paper to use in our book. Overall I really enjoyed the assignment. I thought it was a really good assignment to give the class, and it really made us all think. Sometimes were so busy with our own lives to realize the underlife, and underlying meaning of things. I have Lacy next semester, and I can't wait to see what other projects she has in store for us!