When constructing my essay, I first met with Vic because I knew that I usually struggle with creating outlines. She helped me figure out what my thesis statement was and helped me figure out what things I really wanted to explain in my body paragraphs. I used the two prewriting activities, cluster and timeline, which helped me brainstorm specific learning experiences that I have had and helped me pick which ones were the most important and the best examples to put into my essay. This was much different than my usual steps because I never do any pre writing activities and I struggle with deciding what to put into my outline. The pre writing activities really helped me figure out what I was going to specifically be writing about. The writing strategy that was called the web I did not do because I knew that I wasn’t specifically going to be talking about one person that helped me in my learning experiences because I was going to be talking about multiple people. I am really satisfied with my final draft because I spent a lot of time editing my draft and made it the best that I could make it.
When we actively read the texts from Bain and Dweck we were trying to understand what the different learning styles were and what they meant. With our reflective learning essays, I feel as though we analyzed the information from Bain and Dweck about different learning styles and mindsets before we even knew that we would have to write a paper on it. Then everyone evaluated which aspects of the learning styles and mindsets we have experienced in our pasts. After figuring that out, we all created a paper explaining our experiences and comparing it to the pieces of writing. The podcast was also a creating piece because we used the essay that was already created to make something completely new.
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