This ISU has been a benefit to me in many different ways including improving my writing style, diction, reading more frequently, and expressing myself more clearly. I was daunted in the beginning at the enormity of the task, but I felt that the individual checkpoints reassured me in knowing I was doing well. For me to have handed in my assignment with no guidance would have been pointless, as the purpose of the ISU is to become better at writing and reading and research and thinking. So because of these checkpoints and micro due-dates, I thought the structure of the assignment was effective. This, coupled with the reader response journals and peer feedback was undoubtedly the best way to attack the ISU.
Personally, I felt as though I was beginning to write more passionately and clearly about The English Patient and Michael Ondaatje near the end of my postings, because I was internally developing an understanding of them just by fulfilling the tasks for the ISU. My strengths definitely lie in metacognition and synthesis, but my weakness is communication. This assignment has helped me recognise shape these strengths and weaknesses to allow for higher quality of performance and output.
Lastly, I view the most important aspect of this ISU to be the way it has helped me practise my reading and writing continuously. I've found the increase in vocabulary and poetic terms I've learned from The English Patient have been applied to other places for myself such as my Writer's Craft class and other English assignments. I feel more confident to express myself through writing because of the practice and feedback I've received. I just wish more school assignments were so heavily-laden with checkpoints.
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could you tell me what exactly we are to be reflecting on: if we enjoyed our novel? or if we enjoyed using blogs? or Canadian literature?
Yeah, checkpoints really do help, don't they? I'm pleased that you feel you have made progress across a number of areas. I agree with you. You write with greater analytical depth and you structure pretty clear arguments. At this point, your principal weakness is expression: in your [laudable] efforts to express yourself not only with precision but with art, you can go too far into artfulness at the expense of clarity. This is merely a matter of practice over time. Your writing has improved over the semester and will continue to do so if you persist in your passionate approach to writing.
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