“Go out, explore and learn something new.” Those were the words of my grandfather every time we moved to a new place, into a new town, to a new continent, with new people who spoke a new language. As I grew up a child of the world due to the constant traveling through my opera company I was able to pick up many languages and coat the ones I already knew. I was able to “Go out, explore and learn something new.” As my various travels coated the space in my mind with languages and slang from all over, it coated it with important things in my life at that moment, things to help me get around, or to sing an Aria.It never coated it with rules, it never coated it with grammar or the proper sentence structure, and it definitely never coated it
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During the piece we were tasked to dissect and connect three different texts and how they are all able to tie into a much greater picture. But unfortunately I only barely grasped the text as I had rushed through understanding the readings and had only jumped into the context of the pieces.This lack of time and inability to properly dissect the texts caused my writing to be disjointed and messy. It felt unclear and all over the place as it was difficult for me to see that I needed to better organize my thoughts throughout the piece and not just paragraph to paragraph. For example making sure that each text is connected to the next and isn 't just a summary of each in a different paragraph. Of course this is a much larger challenge to face when given three separate dense texts and not yet understanding how to use the tools to understand how to organize said text. These tools of course were then given to us ,and I am hoping that through my writing you are able to see how I have implicated and taken advantage of these tools. During this assignment I was able to understand how much work I was about to take on and how much growth I was truly about to go through as both a reader and a …show more content…
This was done through activities such as visual mapping that allowed us to see the connections we were about to make in our pieces as we crafted visual melting pots. Also the group activities required us to ask questions about each other 's character choices, technique styles, as well as general questions that allowed us to better understand the writer 's point of view.These activities were very helpful as they asked questions that provoked different parts of my thought process giving me the opportunity to explore different points of view. This was best shown in my Second Essay “Home” which breaks down Yi Fu Tuan’s book Space and Place through the use of a summary response. But the text was extremely dense and was breaking at the seams with different topics and ideas making it very difficult to just pinpoint one and focus on it for the entirety of the piece. The group mapping was beneficial in this instance as it made us write out and display all of our ideas so that we were best able to see what made the most sense and what could best be backed up with the most information. This mapping also required us to see that our ideas needed to connect and made it easier for me to see how vital it is that a whole piece is cohesive and makes sense throughout. Since the essay
During the piece we were tasked to dissect and connect three different texts and how they are all able to tie into a much greater picture. But unfortunately I only barely grasped the text as I had rushed through understanding the readings and had only jumped into the context of the pieces.This lack of time and inability to properly dissect the texts caused my writing to be disjointed and messy. It felt unclear and all over the place as it was difficult for me to see that I needed to better organize my thoughts throughout the piece and not just paragraph to paragraph. For example making sure that each text is connected to the next and isn 't just a summary of each in a different paragraph. Of course this is a much larger challenge to face when given three separate dense texts and not yet understanding how to use the tools to understand how to organize said text. These tools of course were then given to us ,and I am hoping that through my writing you are able to see how I have implicated and taken advantage of these tools. During this assignment I was able to understand how much work I was about to take on and how much growth I was truly about to go through as both a reader and a …show more content…
This was done through activities such as visual mapping that allowed us to see the connections we were about to make in our pieces as we crafted visual melting pots. Also the group activities required us to ask questions about each other 's character choices, technique styles, as well as general questions that allowed us to better understand the writer 's point of view.These activities were very helpful as they asked questions that provoked different parts of my thought process giving me the opportunity to explore different points of view. This was best shown in my Second Essay “Home” which breaks down Yi Fu Tuan’s book Space and Place through the use of a summary response. But the text was extremely dense and was breaking at the seams with different topics and ideas making it very difficult to just pinpoint one and focus on it for the entirety of the piece. The group mapping was beneficial in this instance as it made us write out and display all of our ideas so that we were best able to see what made the most sense and what could best be backed up with the most information. This mapping also required us to see that our ideas needed to connect and made it easier for me to see how vital it is that a whole piece is cohesive and makes sense throughout. Since the essay