About Me
My name is Jack Doerfler, and I'm a freshman at the University of Central Florida. My major is emergency management, and with that major I plan on becoming a firefighter.
At this point in major assignment one, I had close to no knowledge about frameworks. I didn't know which frameworks fit best with my events and I didn't know how to incorporate them into the assignment. In addition, the multimodal aspect was very difficult during this draft because I don't have much prior experience with those types of assignments.
During this draft, I still felt that I wasn't successfully meeting the requirements and that I had a lot to learn. Even though I learned some new information about frameworks and which ones fit best with my events, I still didn't do a great job at incorporating them. In addition, not all my images successfully portrayed the information I was hoping they would.
At this point, I felt much more confident with my work and I felt like I successfully met a good amount of the requirements. Frameworks have become so much easier for me to understand and I felt more confident with how I've incorporated them in this draft. I also was able to find images to better fit with the literature and I gained more experience in multimodal assignments.
Because of the first major assignment, I was able to find frameworks that fit best with the assignment and incorporate them more successfully. However, there was a lot I was unsure of because I described artifacts I'm not used to describing and I had to cite them different than a normal piece of a text. Despite this, I was willing to keep the same artifacts and I took advantage of the opportunity to expand the number to citations I learn.
During this draft, I was more successful in discussing the different types of artifacts and I was better at incorporating the frameworks. I had more work to do with my citations and I was still unsure at this point how to do them properly for the types of artifacts I used. I also wasn't very broad in terms of how impactful the artifacts were because I only mentioned how impactful they were to me and not other people.
This draft helped me a lot with incorporating and explaining my frameworks. I also felt much better about my citations and I feel that my knowledge with citations specifically improved the most. Since this draft, I've also been able to discuss other types of artifacts with much more ease.
Despite the knowledge I gained from the first two major assignments, I felt that for this assignment I wasn't as prepared as I should've been. For the most part, I felt that my revision letter was good, but I didn't upload the updated draft of the revised major assignment.
Similar to the first draft, I didn't feel like I gained much experience with this draft. I did however feel more confident in evaluating feedback I've received in the past and how it's impacted my literacy journey.
This assignment has easily been one of the most impactful for me because my understanding of how impactful dialects are to people's lives has greatly changed. Due to the discussions I've had in class, I felt confident in doing this assignment and putting my feelings and opinions out there.
This assignment is an important part of what taught me the importance of working with peers and the use of collaborating to improve each other's literacy journeys. I felt good in knowing that I was able to give feedback on someone else 's work and that I was able to see how other people view literature.
This assignment was important to me because it gave me time to reflect on what I want as a writer and how far I've come in this semester. With this assignment, I was able to address areas I don't have as much knowledge or confidence in and it also allowed me to find areas I've succeeded in.
Having these pieces of feedback has helped me grow so much as a writer during the semester. Feedback and revision have been someone of the most helpful tools I could've ever used this semester to improve my literacy journey, if not the most helpful.