English Comp II Reflection

Education is a spark. That spark is little without its tinder.
Only combined do they have the
result of re. The tinder in this instance I would argue is passion. Education and passion create
re, one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Maybe even the greatest, because without it, we
could not have evolved and survived through turmoil and danger. Education is the building
block of human development and the tinder is it’s walls. With the two combined, you build
everything but the roof, which just requires e ort. That roof will then support the next person,
should they need it. Such is true for teaching, helping build the foundation ensures it has no
clear fault and doesn’t let the walls crumple suddenly.
I did my order in terms of the process that they were done. I did separate the Annotated
Bibliographies from the generalized projects, as I thought they were of di erent aspects. One is
using the other but they don’t use each other. Therefore, I thought it would be simpler and
cleaner to put them into di erent tabs to distinguish them. The projects start at the Expedition
Proposal and follow the projects in order, with the rst Workplace and Technical Genre,
followed by two and the Artist Statement associated. Followed by the Research and Analysis
Genre one and two, with its Artist Statement attached. I decided to put the revised piece and
remixed piece in its own tab as well, this was originally put at the bottom of my projects but
others have mentioned it harder to nd and recommended that I separate them to avoid
confusion. I do not have any drafts as I revise my pieces retroactively, also because I didn’t
have a lot of time between working a full-time job, getting settled into a new place and working
through my own psychological well-being to rewrite a whole piece just to make it slightly better.
The revision that I made was for the poster that I made that included the mention of two
references from my Annotated Bibliographies. I failed to establish ethos by noting their
importance. This is why the slight x I made was to add the article written by them and to
explain what they would be talking about to show credibility and entice the audience.
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The remix I made was from the powerpoint presentation I made labeled “The Pros and Cons of
Teaching”. I did the remix not this one as I felt that the powerpoint had fell at and I could
easily recon gure the information into a better format. It was de nitely the easiest choice to
make, so why would I spend so much time trying to in ate my ego by making an incredibly
di cult and time-consuming project, when I can revamp the one I have and save both time and
headaches.
This process has been extensively irritating in my personal opinion. I’m not a fan of the
particular subject because for years everyone has told me “It has to be this way” or “That’s
wrong, do it again”. I despise the assumption that anything can be done in one fashion.
Everything changes and by putting rules to it, it doesn’t establish creativity but utterly quashes
it before it could even think of growing wings. I like the subtle nuances of composition but
when it’s so heavily enforced, it feels less like showing me a path along a mountain and more
like dragging me down the corridor of a prison.
I think I’ve learned quite a bit this semester. Not totally from this subject as it felt static and
irregular, which annoys me to no end. However, I have seen that I need to be less passive in my
approaches. This sorta comes into the subject because I didn’t take any leaps because I
needed to get a decent grade and I’d rather get a B on something I barely worked on than get
a C that I poured my ber into. At some points I had doubts on the subject I went with and
those quickly ipped my motivation on its head. I don’t dislike the subject but it falls at when
its critiqued based on a couple days of work. Does anybody make quality work while having 3
hours worth of work a week? It killed a lot of my passionate drive unfortunately.
My improvement would rstly be to never take an online class because it lacks a foundation
that is absolutely essential to my work. Secondly, I would try to nd the interesting aspects of
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the given subject instead of what was required. Exploring a career eld is pointless if it lacks
the voice and passion of it writer, and I feel that most of my work was a consequence of that.
With that being said, I believe that the overall product of all of my work at least entitles a B
average. It’s not the greatest work I have but between my own psychological issues and my
lack of motivation, I put a lot of my e ort and put myself through a lot of forced labor to get the
projects done with. I think a lot of the work I’ve done wasn’t through a lack of interest in the
matter, for which it remains largely una ected, but because of the extenuating circumstances
of having minimal time while still going through rigorous challenges in my everyday life. I will
not go into any of those in this, but they have been confusing and broken me down more times
in the last couple months than I have in several years.
A good portion of my work however does show some amount of my passion and intensity. If I
had more time and more guidance there is a good chance it would rival great works of
literature! All kidding aside, I know it would’ve turned out remarkably better if I had some better
conception on the greater goal instead of being dragged along the corridor, doing one job after
another with no end in sight. Was there ever an end in sight or was it just the machinations of
my own lunacy that lead me here?

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Education is a spark. That spark is little without its tinder.

Only combined do they have the

clear fault and doesn’t let the walls crumple suddenly.

references from my Annotated Bibliographies. I failed to establish ethos by noting their

like dragging me down the corridor of a prison.

hours worth of work a week? It killed a lot of my passionate drive unfortunately.

in the last couple months than I have in several years.

my own lunacy that lead me here?

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