Reflective writing helps me become a better writer because reflecting on my mistakes is how I learn in general. In life in math and in writing, I use reflection. I reflect on the problems that at least I can see in my own text and strive to correct it in future writing assignments. Reflection works the same way in other areas, like in math, when I don’t understand a problem I look at my work and see how I carried out the math in the problem and find out where I went wrong. I then correct this problem by remembering how I fixed it the previous time.
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I thought it was surprising how much work actually went into the essay before I wrote a single word of the actual paper. I haven’t put as much work into any other paper than I have done in this project. I found the most challenging section to be how I composed the essay, I needed to get all the information I gathered to be in one cohesive place in text and I found that difficult finding a way to start and even where to finish. All along the way I had peers asking me the entire time when I would be finished and I wasn’t sure. I had finished the paper at almost 2 in the morning even though I had to work the next day.
The most critical part for me is getting the word limit and writing out a good outline to go off of when composing the essay. The outline is a good source for me because I pretty much compose the essay exactly like I compose the outline. If I had to teach someone something about writing it would be. Use your resources and don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. If you can’t find help resort to searching the web to answer your question. I think reflection is a good part of learning how to write because it helps us learn why we learned what we did. It helps us feel confident in continuing education and what it means for the future.
One individual's response to revision was thinking about how the different paragraphs can flow into each other, I like this way of thinking about revision and identifying how you could make your paragraphs flow into each other better. Someone else sees revision as a "safety net" I like this way of thinking as well. Sometimes when I am composing my essay I make a simple mistake that I do not see upon first glance, but if I go back to it I notice it right away. Questions
Nathan
A. Casual, would like to be a professional gamer, but not a scene for people with mental health issues
A. Yes, but doesn’t consider competitive gamers athletes to him athletes are someone competing in a physical sport Paige
A. The people, everyone in her community wanted to help her learn
I go to Akihabara often, I am planning on writing my ethnography paper on competitive gaming culture. Akihabara is a Japanese gaming arcade, it also is a name of an area in Tokyo with the same name. The whole premise is a gaming arcade centered around fighting games and other Japanese titles, I come mostly for a puzzle game and a racing game that saves your progress via a physical license that you purchase.
I see Japanese arcade cabinets, and anime posters lining the wall, the entire place is packed with people. There is a bar running the left side of the main room, my friend Paige works here and she comes and talks to me every once in a while to see how I’m doing. The paint on the walls is a checkerboard layout alternating with white and a dark blue, with posters in the center of each of the squares. The room seems open even though it is packed to the brim with people. The sound in this space is filled with people talking and the noises of games, periodically you hear screams of victory of a fighting game competition going on in the other room. I’m sitting at the bar so I can mostly smell liquor and beer, I’m also at an arcade so it smells like someone needs a shower. The bar I’m sitting at is an epoxy table with anime posters underneath. I can taste the ramune marble soda that the bartender gave me free of charge, I come here often and spend so much money that she gives me one whenever I’m here. People slide through crowds with ease, many people here are very polite and move out of the way at a moments notice. Even though many are drinking they are very nice and talk to you as if they know you. Most people are here playing the arcade games, or watching other people play the fighting games set up in a separate room, it’s a nice place to go if you are trying to hone your craft of playing and competing in fighting game tournaments. Paige, my friend the bartender, is talking with her patrons in a light hearted manner, she’s wearing her boyfriends beanie and an anime shirt. She greets a person who sits down at the bar and asks if he wants anything he orders a drink from the menu provided she checks his identification and promptly goes to make his drink. The man watches anime on the television above the bar while he waits. I see a cluttered room with rabbit plushies running the top of the square shelves in the back of the room and there are clothes to the left of the shelves, looks like mostly dresses. Playsets and other toys are all over the room, a pink toy telephone and other rabbit toys are on the floor. Dollhouses are scattered through the mess of toys and cute stuff, there is a crib with two dolls ‘sleeping’ in it. There are many colors of the many items in the room the color I can see mostly is a bright pink and warm colors with pops of blue and yellow.
The space I chose is an Americanized Japanese restaurant called Tokyo Joe’s. This particular restaurant is a chain and the particular location I am at is the Tokyo Joe’s in the village section of the Flatirons mall. I go to this Tokyo Joe’s often because it is a typically quiet place that I go to do some coursework. It is near where I work, I can easily walk after a shift at Starbucks and concentrate while I eat some cheap sushi typically with some edamame. There is a bus stop right outside the establishment that will take me home after a long day of work.
I notice right away that the patrons of the restaurant are talking and eating with the people they are with. Nobody at the moment seems to be alone, although I have seen people eat here alone before. Who is present: I see what I can assume are two friends, two women in their twenties. One in a new looking leather jacket and another in a college hoodie that says CU.They are sitting at a table with four chairs and they are sitting across from each other. They are both on their phones, they are done with their meal, and are waiting for something. Another woman who is wearing a light brown jacket sat next to the woman in the leather jacket, the other two put down their phones and start talking to the woman who had just sat down. They only talked for a minute, then simultaneously they grabbed their shopping bags, then left their plates, chopsticks and napkins for the employee to clean up. Not a minute passed for the employee wearing a backwards Tokyo Joe’s flat cap and braided pigtails to clean up their mess. I can see an older man with a gray baseball cap and a black coat with a young child wearing a gray shirt and pink polka dot pants. She is easily distracted and sitting in a children's high chair so she can easily reach her food. The old man doesn’t even try to teach her how to use chopsticks resorting to giving her a fork. She is drinking a bright pink drink and eating from a small plate. The older man is eating from a big bowl and is drinking some sort of soft drink. They finish up their meal stacking the bowl and plate with all the mess cleaned up in one pile, they thank the Tokyo Joe’s employee with the flat cap and pigtails from across the sushi bar and say goodbye, leaving promptly. As far as objects in the room there are wooden tables with plastic chairs, not the typical chairs, they are more rounded which creates more of a comforting experience. Most of the tables are waist height, but there is one table, chest height, it has higher chairs to compensate. The lights are all dangling on cords from the ceiling. A row of red circular lamp shades is hanging on the side of the building, with the majority of the dining tables. The “dress” of the employees seems to be very relaxed. They are all wearing dark clothing with blank black shirts and black to blue jeans. All but one employee is wearing a hat of some sort. A person who would be uncomfortable in this space would be someone who doesn’t like sushi or Japanese cuisine in general. Just about anyone is welcome inside to try out the food though. The cultural values are mostly just an Americanized representation of Japanese culture. That in itself creates its own specific kind of culture. The story that Tokyo Joe’s tells me is that in an Americanized version of another culture still creates its own unique experience. Just because it is emulating a rich, deep culture spanning thousands of years doesn’t make it any less valid. I work at a Starbucks in one of Colorado’s biggest malls, the Flatirons Crossing Mall. I am influenced by the place that I work because everything I need is within a couple of blocks of the mall. I live very close to the Flatirons Mall, as I call it, I can see the mall from my balcony window. I live with a roommate who lives in the upstairs bedroom and my boyfriend, we all play many video games. This puts me in the broad gaming culture, I play games to relax/ put my head in a different perspective. I am also trying to be a programmer and my roommate is a coder for a startup company based in a different company. This will eventually put me in the programming culture, I don’t consider myself a programmer quite yet because I don’t know any programming languages.
Places I’m not allowed to participate are the obvious places like, schools I don’t attend, strangers' houses/ apartments, employee only places, etc. The places that my friends have access to aren’t many, I work with a great deal of my friends, but as for the ones I don’t work with they have access to their own workplaces that I don’t work at. My family has access to a lot more places than I do. They all live in a different state so they have access to a plethora of places that I cannot. Places that are private are our separate houses and the back room at Starbucks, the public places are front houses of Starbucks and restaurants and arcades. Honestly, what I found was the most surprising about composing my writing project was how easy it was, partially because of the subject material. I really enjoyed researching why I do the thing I do every day. I thought it took me longer to finish the composition of my first draft, but it only took me a couple of hours
I found the most challenging aspect was finding multimodal elements. I used a simple meditation exercise as my main multimodal element, but I wasn’t sure most of the time I was composing what my multimodal element was going to be, What I found confusing was citing my quotations. Luckily my boyfriend, who has been in college longer than I have, was there to answer any questions I had about citing. The most critical part of the writing process was my outline, after I wrote my outline I understood what my task was. I learned the most while I was in the middle of writing the essay. If I had to teach someone else writing about something I would tell them that the way you structure your essay in terms of paragraph content is important. I think the WPA outcomes values reflective writing because reflective writing helps you learn what you need to improve on and helps you learn what your strengths are. |
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