Thursday, November 8, 2012

Blog #11: WP2 Reflection


Writing Project #2 was easier to complete than the first project, although it required more special circumstances such as creating links within links in order to blog it. We had the opportunity in Writing Project #2 to select the locations we would evaluate for the overall project. I feel like giving the students a bit of freedom in choosing their topics motivates them and allows them to sit down and make an effort in writing a paper about it. In Writing Project #2 in specific, we were able to select four locations on campus that provided goods or services, useful or not. I then had to explain in what ways these locations were good or in what ways they are terrible. The evaluations for each location became an annotation, of which we end up having four in our paper.

My four pin pointed places were four of the school's book stores and shops, convenient for ASU affiliated merchandise. The Sun Devil Campus Bookstore, the College Store, Campus Corner and the Student Book Center. These are the best locations to purchase ASU apparel for game day, or just to stock up and stay spirited. The key to choosing the best overall shop is to evaluate each store's quality of product, variety, and affordability. These were essential to my evaluations since I was supposed to present the reader with the best four locations regarding my topic.

Although Writing Project #2 seemed to be an easy break from essays such as our first project in class, it proved to be otherwise as the deadline was approached.  I felt as if I spent more time than necessary trying to figure out the tactics of blogging my essay correctly and making sure I had everything from the Google map to the hyperlinks in place. Perhaps the thing I had the most trouble with was reaching 100-800 words in just an introduction without repeating myself. This is definitely not your typical hand-in-your-printed-essay English class, but projects like these challenge me to think outside the standard college essay.

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