CASE STUDY BLOG #2

Back in high school an English teacher gave me an assignment one day in class. That assignment was what seemed to be a simple task; write whatever is on your mind. Thank god that assignment was given to me back in high school because now it would be filled with things like… well, never mind. Ever since that assignment, I’ve started every paper the same way. With what I’m thinking at the time. For this case study, as an example, I have in mind the direction I want to take it, but I have no idea what exactly I should say. That’s how I’ve ended up at this point. I brainstorm in writing until I figure out the right words. While my papers can’t start exactly like this, my blog can. That brings me to this semester, the most writing I have done this year has been for these blogs. I was a little opposed to the whole idea at first. I thought it would be extra work, but when you get to voice your own opinion without being graded too harshly, it makes the writing process easier. Everything I’ve written up to this semester has been a struggle because I haven’t had the opportunity to unwind with any project like a blog, where if I feel like saying the class sucks I can. Since that is not the case, that is the last time you will see that phrase in my blogs. As I was saying about the case study, take, for example, the first couple of assignments. The negotiation letter: while it wasn’t my best work, it wasn’t difficult because it was my own opinion. The Hollywood inference paper: while I was way off the mark with how I was supposed to label things, I still enjoyed doing it because we got to judge someone. Our teacher gave us permission to judge someone. The iRead essay: granted it we had guidelines to follow, but we still got to read something we were interested in. Whether we were for or against the issue, we weren’t bored to death with some sort of nonsense article we didn’t care about. Writing in this class seems to be a breeze because I get to read and write about topics that matter to me, and further more I get to express how these topics make me feel. So as far as myself as a writer, I’d say I’m more comfortable with having the class in my hands rather than some teacher’s. Because let’s be honest, deadlines are a reality everywhere, you don’t always get to choose what’s taking you to it.