Course Projects

The English course this semester will be split up into four major projects: The Controversy Postmortem, The Rhetorical Investigation, A Public Argument and the Reflective Self-Assessment. Here are some of my thoughts on the four major projects.

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• What are you most confused by or nervous about in regards to the four major projects?            What I am most nervous about is the whole preparation to producing the final version of the project. I am nervous about how well I am going to be able to manage my time while making the projects. Also, I am nervous about how much of a challenge the projects might be to me since I do not consider myself that well at researching information.

• What are you most interested in or excited by in regards to the four major projects?                The interesting thing about these four projects to me is that they will be connected to a topic related to my major (or a major that might interest me since I am undeclared as of now). I think that the decision to have the class use a subject related to their field of study to base the projects off of sounds exciting for me. 

• Based on your understanding of the major projects, what are the elements of this course that you have to plan ahead for? How will the coursework described in the four project assignment sheets challenge your time management skills this semester?                                                           Based on my understanding, the elements to plan ahead for are researching, and getting the equipment necessary for said project. The research stage of the projects will take some time for me to do in order to get the appropriate secondary sources or even primary sources such as interviews for Project 2. The equipment stuff will have to be planned ahead of time or else I will fall behind if I do not have the proper equipment to work with during production. The coursework is going to push my time management skills to the edge since they are very poor, yet they will help me develop them for the better.

• How has your past English coursework in high school or college prepared you for the challenges of this course? What skills will you bring into the course with you?                            In high school I had English courses that required me to produce video assignments, so I have some experience with working with Windows Movie Maker. Aside from that, I think my past courses have given me writing skills that can help me bring in some creativity into the projects of this course.

• Do you have any questions about the four major projects that haven't been answered by the assignment sheets? What do you still want to know?                                                                      I would say no, for now. One thing I would maybe like to know is about more examples of what exactly we can and cannot write about. Specifically, what could be considered too broad and what could be too specific.

Reflection: Reading from my peers' blog posts on this topic, I realized that they have similar thoughts on the upcoming course projects. Thoughts such as nervousness, anxiety and a bit of concern on the amount of liberty that will be given on these upcoming projects. Also, these blogs made me feel more comfortable in the sense that they were written in more personal note. It didn't feel like I was reading something robotic as opposed to my personal feeling of how I wrote the blog post for the projects.

I replied to the posts of Brady Thomas and gdietrich.