The body of work I’ve done this semester was analyzing poetry and writing an essay about one of the author’s poems, writing about activism, discussing the psychoanalytic theory, discussing the postcolonial theory and examining types of government in the Alexie story, discussing the Marxist theory and analyzing the Ichiyo story, and discussing critical race theory and analyzing the Chopin story. After spring break I was writing about my opinion on an article of my choice, writing an analysis essay on the feminist theory and Ichiyo’s story, discussing genres of drama, discussing Moral Criticism and Dramatic Construction in literary theory, and creating a one-act play based on one of the stories I’ve read. I thought it was an eventful journey over the past 15 weeks because I learned and discussed some topics I never discussed before or went into full depth. I think the realization I have made as a writer is that I struggle with what I want to write for an hour, but when I finally get the right idea I know what to do.
The two pieces of work I am proud of are the Poetry Analysis essay and the Literary Analysis essay. I did a lot of research while writing the essays and made sure I understood all the material I reviewed. I am never confident about my essay but I felt better after hearing the feed back from my professor and peers. It encourages me to not doubt myself when I am writing my essays. The reason why these were my choices is because I somewhat enjoy writing and going into depth about topics that I really like to discuss. Analyzing poetry and talking about feminism is a couple of the topics I enjoys writing and discussing about. I was in zone because I was focused on doing the best I could do when writing the essays and I enjoyed this assignment more than others because I got to talk about topics I want to talk about.
I have had an issue with time management this semester and it was my biggest challenge. In one of my other classes, I was having a hard time understanding what was going on and it was giving me a hard time, so I began to procrastinate and finish homework for that class at the last minute. It also caused me to fall behind in my other classes because of how stressed I was. I managed to catch up with everything and started to procrastinate less and less. I still had an issue with time management but I was starting to get better and practice a healthy habit of finishing most of my homework on time.
I really enjoyed this class and I will miss attending every Tuesday and Thursday. I had a lot of fun with the assignments and I enjoyed reading everyone’s opinions on different topics in open lab. This class has helped me grow as a writer and made me enjoy discussion post when I didn’t like doing them before. I also liked writing essays in the class even though I usually don’t like writing them as much. I hope my professor and peers have a great summer this year and wish them the best of luck!
