Jesika's Blog

Looking back I've been doing pretty good, but I'm kind of behind on a little bit. I wasn't able to complete some assignments in week 7. I hope for this second half of this semester I can get ahead and be able to do more extra credit assignments. Looking at my progress chart I'm doing good, but it's like I could do better. So, I want to avoid getting behind and try to get at least a week ahead. My routine is not bad, but I'm thinking of doing some extra assignments on the weekends to get ahead. Also, doing all those extra credit opportunities would definitely help with that. Motivational quote ( Source ) 

I think overall I'm getting some good feedback from other students on my stories and project. I find the comments about an idea I could add in my stories to be the most helpful. Those comments really help me think of ways I could improve my stories or even add more details to it. In addition, I would say I'm giving useful feedback to others as well. I think the WWW strategy has helped me the most on giving feedback to other writers. Also, reading other peoples stuff gives me ideas on how I could write my stories, and it's a good way to connect with others. I feel like you could get some perspective about people through their writing. One thing I want to work on is giving better feedback that could be more useful to others. For instance, giving them ideas on how they could further their writing. I think it's important to take feedback in a positive way and a way to just improve oneself. The image below expresses what I think is important about the feedback process, and ...

Overall, I think my readings and writing assignments are well. There are some small things that I could improve on. On my reading notes, I could elaborate more on details of the story, and read the story more like a writer. I started to slack on my notes, so I could add in the notes on how I could change the story and analyze it better. That would help me when it comes to writing the story so I already have ideas. I think my favorite reading was about The Burning of Lanka. This story was interesting to read and rewriting it. Also, I'm pretty happy about my project website. I think the design and the layout are pretty good, considering I never made a website or blog. My introduction for my project made it clear on how I was going to write the stories, so I just need to work on how I'm going write the letters and the format. I'm not the most creative person, so I think I'm getting better at that part and coming up with ideas. In all, I'm not doing too bad and just nee...