Reflection 3 (Second Major Project)
This second paper was a challenge for me to
attack due to the fact that there was a minimum amount of words to be used. I
had to tell a story through pictures, which can bring down an argument if you
don’t create the feel that you want. I learned that wrting isn’t always about
what you say, but how you say it sometimes. In the case of this project it wasn’t
about words, but about picture placement and design. Just as I played the role
of critic to the author in the first project, the roles were flipped now. I was
the author and my audience was the critic, trying to break down my message. I
think that this project taught me how to play that role well, because I had to
use placement and visuals to tell the audience a story. The first two projects helped
me to see the importance of structure and arrangement by forcing me to tell
stories and break down visuals. I learned that the ability to organize a paper
to create a perfect flow is a necessity for a smoothly functioning paper.
I really felt that in this specific project I
choose a very interesting topic to argue. I think that comparing the athletic
world to the business world was a topic that my audience would find very
interesting because there was a lot of information in the argument for people
that weren’t familiar with playing sports. I was use to playing sports my whole
life and I wanted to show my audience how it was able to shape me to be a
better individual. I wanted to learn how to tell a story by simply placing a
picture in a certain way and captioning it and I accomplished that. This
project challenged my way of thinking by testing my creative side. I had to
find out what story I wanted to tell and how I wanted to tell it. On top of all
of that I had to organize my argument and captions in a way that would make
sense to the audience. The easier the PowerPoint was to follow the more
understanding my audience would be of my argument.
The argument actually made me see how sports
are beneficial even more than I thought they were. Sports are able to shape an
individual and this project shaped me into a creative learner. It wasn’t the
traditional type of paper because normally papers don’t use picture to tell a
story. This type of paper was the first of its kind for me in college and I am
happy we did it. I was able to see how important organization and structure was
in a paper. I learned that there was a different way to research through this
paper and that is using outside sources for questions. I was able to figure out
how to do things through people that were successful in the past with a project
like this one. I wanted to learn how to tell a story so I asked around for
other’s help. I wanted to tell a story in an effective manner and I did this by
organizing similar sections together. I made sure to group topics in my paper,
such as, success in sports, controversy in sports, and failure in sports together
so that it was a smooth read. Therefore, the audience wouldn’t read about one
success, one failure, and one controversy, then bounce back to the second
examples from each topic.
This second major writing project taught me how
to organize and tell a story and it would prepare me for the final writing
project to come. There was still more that I had to learn, because this last
writing project was no pushover. I would have to blend all the things from the
first and second writing projects in order to create something special in my
last project. Although I felt ready there were many things that I still needed
to learn in order to create something special in this final project. I would
now be tested in everything that I learned to up to this point in time, but my love
for the topic would my driving force to perfection.
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