To be
honest, I really didn’t like this course. I found it rather pointless as I
personally have not much interest in writing on demand. I don’t mind writing
three or four stories a year, but I find writing back to back rather boring.
I’m not saying the course would be pointless for everyone but I did find it
rather out of interest for me. With that aside, I’ll move on to some of the
other questions of which I am asked to give the answer.
The
type of writing I found most challenging was the picture writing, what I mean
by this is when the teacher would put a picture on the smart board. We were
then asked to write a story on the picture, I found this rather difficult as I
do not find myself much of a creative writer; as a result my work was rather
dull and boring. That being said, the easiest type of writing for me was when
making up our own stories, that were to be fact or fictional. I found I could
use my imagination as well as my imagination to create a decent story.
My
favorite assignment that I had written in this course was my story, African Safari. This story is my
favorite because it was something that I felt had really taken me some
creativity to come up with, as I mentioned earlier, creativity is not my strong
suit. I also enjoyed some of the comments I had received in class form my
classmates. However, one assignment I
didn’t like at all was my time capsule story. I read it over now and I wish I
had not written it. I found that I had written what I had just to complete the
assignment, it was not a very thought out story, nor did I put any feeling into
it.
The
peer assessing that we had done in class, was pretty productive in my opinion.
It gave me an idea of how the teacher was marking our work, and also about what
my age group had thought of my writing.
The assessing also made the editing process easier for me as I find it
hard to detect my own mistakes. I also enjoyed assessing other student’s work,
I enjoy to read and I found I could relate to the stories better knowing of who
had written them on a more personal level rather than a professional author’s
work.
As I
have mentioned before, my weakness in writing is creativity. Though I feel it
has improved a bit, I do not feel it is at the level I wish it were at this
point in time, after almost completing the course.
The
most enjoyable activity is not what I “did” it is what my group and I are doing
now, which is our 1 minute video. I really like this activity because I get to
discuss topics with my friends, and get to work on this project with them. It
was a laugh when filming, and it is pretty fun doing the editing. That being
said, my least enjoyable activity was anytime we had to do demand writing. I do
not like demand writing period, I find it boring and makes for very dull
writing.
