Artifact Reflective Report

In the second project, we were required to write about an artifact from a specific culture, and describe our relationship with this artifact. I chose my E-reader (aka the Amazon Kindle) to be my artifact. This E-reader is not a part of my own culture, actually, I could have chosen something else that is from my culture. However, when I look up my possessions, I did not find any artifact that I have special relationship with, and use it in a daily basis. I think my Kindle was something special to me, and I started using it recently which will help me a lot in my writing. For that I chose it over the other artifacts from my own culture.
At the beginning, I started by collecting questions about my artifact, and writing them down in my OneNote app. These questions were collected by both my classmates and me; during one of the classes, I passed my artifact to all of my classmates and everyone asked a question. I listed the questions and tried to outline my paper based on them. I ended up with a basic layout (plan) of how my paper would look it at the end.
As a second step, I did a small research about reading habits in the American and student cultures, and how it changed with the new E-readers technology. I ended up having some secondary resources for my paper. What is best culture for E-reader? This was a question …show more content…
I embedded new justification of why reading was/is ignored in my culture. The overall conclusion was recrafted with some more clarification. I learnt from this project that before thinking about a topic and started writing about it, I need to be sure that I have all the essential component in mind. For example, in this project, I should have not chosen the Kindle until I find a culture that situates it. So, this will one of my goals for the next project along with improving the way I express my thoughts to the