Week 8 Growth Mindset

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As I mentioned in my week 1 growth mindset post, I always strive to grow and improve myself. One thing that I have always had some issues with are writing. This class has definitely helped my improve on this skill and I believe that it will continually keep improving. Dr. Gibbs does a great job at getting feedback back to us about the stories and helping us find both spelling and grammar errors. This type of criticism is very rewarding because it seems that there is always a way for me to improve my writing and storytelling. I also really like that this class is open and really lets the students in the class decide what they want to learn about and write about. I think that the feedback provided by both Dr. Gibbs and the other students in the class will continuously help me improve and carry throughout the second half of the semester.

Ryan McElyea's - Week 8 Reflections

Reflection. Source

READING:

• I think that I have been making good selections in the readings that I have chosen. My favorite was the Ramayana PDE. I feel like it was super easy to understand and comprehend throughout. However, I have enjoyed the YouTube videos of the Mahabharata as well. I usually do my readings either before bed or when I wake up in the morning.
• I feel like my reading notes last week are definitely what helps me the most. I like to represent the main ideas of each section of reading to help me demonstrate high points in my own writing tasks.
• I am definitely looking forward to continuing the videos of Mahabharata. The Hero and British tales in weeks 11-12 are something that also sparked my interests.

WRITING:

• The only story that I am super happy about this whole semester was the one from Week 3 that had Rama and Wonder Woman. Because of that, I plan on writing the rest of my stories with this theme and topic. I have learned that it is difficult for me to stay in one tense (past, present, or future). Being an engineering student, I do not really have much courses that deal with writing a lot. When I have trouble with writing, I usually just good and try to find the correct way to structure something.
• I am doing the portfolio and like the choice that I made. So far I only have 2 stories in it but will hopefully hace five or six by the end of the semester.
• Looking ahead I am basically going to do a continuation on the Wonder Woman stories that I wrote about in Week 3. I plan on introducing new characters and ideas that are hopefully related to the readings.

CONNECTING:

• When I look at other people's story I love how majority of them use a lot of dialogue. Dialogue is one of the things that I struggle the most with so I would love to be able to incorporate it more in my own stories.