This last week of class can evidently be described using one word: bittersweet. While I am excited and relieved to finally finish exams and conclude our last week of in-person instruction in English 105-i, I will miss completing full-fledged projects that I can say I’m truly proud of. I am also saddened to part from my classmates whom I have engaged with in enticing conversations and discussions throughout the semester. However, I am looking forward to progressing in my future classes and applying my newfound knowledge to analyzing and discussing medical research and health-related literature.
By Tuesday’s class, we turned in our final feeder (feeder 3.2). Thankfully, we were informed of a 24-hour extension on our unit three project. I am very appreciative of this extension because, though I have completed my interview and have a solid amount of information, the extra time will allow me to ensure that my narrative is well-organized and coherent. In class, we first asked questions about writing in business, mostly focused on how to present ourselves effectively through a resume. We also briefly discussed how writing in business is more timely and direct in order to enhance professionality for future aspirations and career-oriented opportunities. For the majority of Tuesday’s class, we engaged in a riveting discussion on creative writing and learned about how to tell a narrative story, which helped me reflect on my abilities to tell a story and prompted me to think a bit more about framing my interviewee’s insight as a story to make it more understandable and engaging. This also allowed me to think creatively about my writing skills, as opposed to following a formulaic outline. The most memorable part of the class was creating predicament statements, wherein we used characters from Thomas the Tank Engine to envision a story where Thomas is immobilized from the doings of “Cranky the Crane” who, for some reason, is addicted to crack. Between Tuesday and Thursday, we worked towards our rough draft of our illness narrative unit project for further workshopping.
In Thursday’s class, we first discussed the new course website idea for future students, which allowed us students to have input on what we liked about the class. Though the class was almost evenly split, it was interesting to discuss because it feels nice to have our voices heard. We then completed an activity on the whiteboard, wherein we compared writing in all of the disciplines by filling in information on the whiteboard. This helped us make a visual representation of priorities, values, and goals of different forms of writing across various disciplines. Then, we quickly looked through our feedback for feeder 3.2 and ended the day by briefly workshopping our rough-draft submissions of our rough drafts for the unit three project. It was quite a relief to take those final steps toward the finish line. getting this assignment turned in.
Though finishing out the last in-person class left me feeling accomplished (and relieved that I no longer have to wake up at 8 am), I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all that English 105-i had to offer, and intend to apply the knowledge I have gained to my future pursuits in my research in the medical field.
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