Friday Freewrite!

1. Through this course, and maybe especially through the work of writing your Microtheme, what are you learning about yourself as a writer?

             I am learning a lot about myself while constructing my Microtheme. The topic that I chose was about the arts and education. I did not realize how passionate I was about music until I started writing this and all of my paragraphs were very argumentative and had such direct claims that could lead to a very bias persuasive essay.

2. More broadly, what are you learning about yourself, in general?
   
              In general, I have admitted that when it comes to writing I have a very close minded format in how I approach different topics. I feel that all throughout school it was drilled into our brains about the five paragraph structure and all the exceptions to those rules if the type of essay was changed. This I realize is the one way to ensure that a person will not grow as a writer. That is what the past two projects in this class have taught me. I was finally reintroduced to feeling uncomfortable in a writing class just because of these new forms of presenting an idea to an audience.

3. Can you say that your work on the Documentary Project and/or the Microtheme has taught you anything about the nature of knowledge and/or truth?

                 I can say with extreme honestly that my work on the Documentary Project and the Microtheme has taught me a surprising amount about knowledge and truth. Each project however has taught me truth in their own way. The Documentary Project taught me knowledge and truth by listening to everyone else who had watched an eye opening video and watching one of my own that there is so much out there. Cartel Land for example informed so many of us about this drug war that goes on everyday we are carrying on with our lives. As far as working on this project, I learned of a more objective way to write and had to restrain my own analysis of the film to remain true to exactly what it portrayed. With the Microtheme I learned of how many controversial subjects there really are out there and the safe way to teach others about your newfound injustice. After learning the correct way to write about our subjects, it opened my eyes to how much potential our seemingly insignificant words can have!