Sheena's Midterm Reflection

Essay 1: Writing to Explore

Essay 2: Writing to Inform

     In the beginning I was confused how to connect and relate to different wiki pages with my writing. I am a self writer. I do my best writing independently through my own research and thought. I prefer to write and form my pieces within myself, through my own process. I did not like, at first, the idea of others being able to edit my own workspace. But, in fact, through the course I have learned a lot from others being able to edit and link pages to my wiki space. I have discovered a whole new thought that I had been processing about, but found a definitive article to support to my perceptions. This had laid down the path to my first essay, writing to explore. On my exploration of neurodiversity I had also ran into other ideas associated to this perception through other's writing on the wiki. The idea of the wiki, which I had believed at first was a mass confusion, has turned out to be an excellent boost to my thinking and writing processes. It has been a great way to expand and explore ideas through fellow classmates. 

     Through the beginning of the course I had gone through some hysteria in my personal life, consisting of losing a loved one and harsh living arrangements. This has caused me to slack in my school work, and go astray to my writing to explore idea. With my writing habits, and to fully project and perfect my ideas into an essay, I must have full attention and full focus to make a great piece. The hysteria had blocked my mental functioning of projecting the image of neurodiversity and the relation to our educational system. My processes on this exploration piece had formed late due to the blockage of my full mental capacity. Once I had gained enough knowledge power back my paper had flowed out smoothly from my brain to my finger tips. The audience I intended for my essay is to anyone and everyone who is open minded for a reverse side look to our societal and educational structure, or even those whom are not. I would like to broadcast this message in my later studies. I had only touched on a small importance of this issue, and would like to broaden this aspect of a new generation in my future writings and learnings throughout my schoolwork and career as a neuroscientist. For my first essay I thought I had presented a well thought out topic with a general flow to my tone and message to capture my audience. I had read my essay to many peers throughout the process, and received feedback and resources to strengthen my idea of 'Education for the PEOPLE, not for SOCIETY'. In the end I was proud of the piece I had created and was happy I could share it with all of my peers through the wiki board. 

     Coming into my second essay of writing to inform, I was well prepared and had many thoughts tangled in my mind to express in this paper. The paper was to be assessed from Shiva's novel. I had chosen the chapter of Living Cultures. I was very pleased to read and gain more knowledge of a topic much related to my first essay. I had read about the globalization and imperialist popularity of our American culture, which has mutual regards to our educational system, reflected upon in my writing to explore essay. The chapter, or at least the beginning, touched on many valuable perceptions of our diversity as a human species and how to unify such a culturally and biologically diverse species. I was excited to read this chapter, for it had related and boosted my perceptions of our new generation of a neurodiverse culture. It had brought up a powerful surge of perceptions into my mind about the importance and lively hood of our new generation. It had brought up many ideas that had branched out my original ideas of the change we as a new generation, and together as LLS students, would like to put forth to a peaceful society, living to coexist. I have still not yet finished my writing to inform, for I feel I need more time to put a powerful piece and logical idea into play to inform my audience, any audience, of the importance to unify and work together to achieve an overturn on our society to a peace movement. A gradual peace movement, not a radical one. For time is what it takes to make a magnificent creation, a creation that will have powerful meaning and structure in each sentence that will be able to open the perceptions of a wide variety of audiences. 

     I have felt that through the first half of my composition two class has broadened my perception and powerful ideas through this wide media of the wiki, as well as many links to resources found through the wiki. I feel I have been able to progress my writing just by the practice to flow and create my own ideas, related or unrelated to my peer's work. Even though I am only two essays strong through this class, I feel I am on my way to creating a powerful portfolio to share and keep with me on my path to success through my educational career and beyond. I feel that the wiki has created a stronger path for writers, a diverse group of writers, to explore and exchange ideas to create many masterpieces. I am very pleased with the work I have created so far, yet would have liked to put more speed into my writing process. I am still working on being punctual with the deadlines, yet do not feel the need to rush through a masterpiece in the making. If rushed through, my piece would not have come out the same. Not saying my piece could have been worse, it might have been better. There are many mental and emotional states constantly changing throughout all of us each and every part of the day. With that said, a masterpiece is made only in its own precise time and manner. If not readily available to take on a task, or to take on a piece in a weak mental state, the message and success of the piece could dwindle into existence, nothingness. Yet nothingness is everything. I have learned to write with a mind wide open, to just flow with the knowledge and perceptions to my finger tips and right onto the wiki board. I have learned to come into an essay with an open mind of a wide variety of audiences through such a mass media board. I would have liked to give more feedback to my peers through this composition class. Although writing is a strong forte of mine, reading is not. I have difficulties reading and critiquing other pieces, even my own. This is something I would like to strengthen through the rest of my composition two class, that will not only help my peer's writing and thinking process, but it will help my own perceptions and writing processes.