ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
I decided to write another reflection post for this essay because I would have to rewrite almost the entire essay to fix it. My essay answered the assignment’s prompt, but I did not feel confident about my writing. I was not very interested in what I wrote about, and I think that was apparent in […]
Read moreClick here to see my presentation When I was constructing an argument for this project, I was expecting to not have enough ideas to discuss. To combat this problem, I wrote down a lot of ideas. Once I started practicing giving my presentation, I quickly realized that not many ideas can fit into a presentation […]
Read moreHere is my Literacy Narrative, revised. This whole literacy narrative assignment allowed me to explore a couple of the learning objectives for this class. The first was being able to synthesize and analyze writing. For some of this assignment I was just looking at my own writing, but it was interesting to have to look […]
Read moreFor this Halfa Kucha assignment I decided to look at the trauma presented in both Stitches and Sabrina and compared the healing process. According to Juith Herman, recovery is a process set in three stages. Both comics embodied this recovery process in their own way. In Stitches, David’s recovery process started after he began meeting […]
Read moreWhile writing my presentation, I gravitated towards selecting the two comics that I enjoyed the most, Stitches and Kindred, and quickly realized that both Dana and David had a plethora of ways that they conducted their journey of healing following severe family trauma. As opposed to an essay where I could cite many examples and […]
Read moreI found that constructing an argument as a presentation is quite different compared to writing an essay. With an essay, I am able to get my point across and provide a lot of details and background knowledge. However, with the presentation, I had to condense all my information into only a couple of sentences. To […]
Read moreThe literacy project as a whole helped me meet the learning goals of this class by guiding me through a step by step writing process. From brainstorming a spread of topic ideas, to writing the essay, to visualizing the essay, to revising the essay and to be able to reflect each step. The project provided […]
Read moreMy Literary Comic can be found here. Making the literacy comic was definitely a learning experience. Before now, i had never made a comic before. I think it would have been much harder to draw the comic if I had not written the literacy narrative beforehand. The biggest obstacle I had while creating the literacy […]
Read moreThesis: David Small draws and Tillie Walden skates, but Small loves drawing while Walden hates skating, therefore the way a person experiences life impacts the amount of joy they can get from certain activities. I argue that based on a person’s life and the challenges they face, their problems can either be resolved or exacerbated […]
Read moreA reflection of part 1 of my literacy narrative.
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