Friday August 27th 2021

 

INTRODUCTION 

 

Name : Shi Yu and Steven (went by Steven most of my life but I’m not too picky about it now)

Pronouns : He/him/his

Goals: After going through the assignments, my goal for this course is to try and attempt to work on at least one of the projects digitally. And in order to accomplish that I want to improve my communications skills particularly in speaking along with writing a script for a podcast. 

Question: If an assignment is done in a podcast format, can there be a guest (a friend, or maybe even the professor!) or is it only limited to the student doing the assignment?

“Rule” about writing: One of the only rules of writing I remember learning about in school is the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion outline. And these paragraphs will also serve its own purpose: the introduction will give the audience a general idea and introduce the thesis of the essay, the body paragraphs will reinforce the thesis by diving further into the topic, and the conclusion will wrap it all up and maybe give the audience something to think about for the future revolving around the topic. Almost all the writing I did in my academic career revolved around this rule with the exception of poems and it gave structure to my ideas and stories. It allowed me to follow an outline that worked for all the writing I ever had to do from book reports, to research papers, to essays on standardized exams, and more that I can’t remember at this moment. The rule is not true because you don’t have to follow this format of writing but it is definitely helpful. It can be a great way to organize my ideas but it does not challenge me to explore new ways to display my writing and I hope to do that more in the future. 

Writing and Me: My relationship with writing has been, for the most part, an academic one. We never really spent time outside of school together unless it was for an essay or assignment for a class. I’ve always avoided writing until the last minute until writing would remind me that if we don’t cooperate, my grades would suffer and I would be sabotaging myself in the long run. But our relationship has been a tolerating one. Writing never failed me and I have never failed writing. We have always managed to get the work done one way or another. improved our relationship. Writing has always been there for me but I never opened up to accept writing. But some time off over the last year or so has really improved our relationship. I started journaling and writing has helped me explore how I feel, why I feel a certain way, and what I can do to change how I feel if I don’t like it. Writing reminds me what I need to do and keeps me on track though I slip up from time to time and ignore writing because of my flaws: my laziness, my anger, my irresponsibility, and the list goes on. Writing is like a perfect companion that deals with all of my imperfections and it’s up to me to contribute to the relationship because I have all to gain and nothing to lose. 

 

1. What worked or went well this week

• setting up the blog 
• responding to the prompt

2. What was hard or didn’t work this week

• Didn’t plan out my schedule for the start of school 
• Lack of time to balance work and personal time

3. To-Do list for next week

• Begin assignments as soon as possible (homework, reading, and writing assignments)
• revise my schedule and rest more
• begin allocating time for self-learning

4. Where you left off/the last thing you did

• adding to my new blog
• prioritizing tasks to put on my schedule

5. How you feel or felt about the week, your project, and/or your writing

This week hasn’t been ideal but it’s not a bad start because I can see many things I can improve on. I am excited to see how implementing small changes will have great outcomes.