Affected Motivation from Curriculum

The curriculum that we are currently learning from our readings, class discussions, and project one has motivated me more.  It also made me have more of an interest in writing and thinking critically.  Having to think outside of the box has helped to improve my writing skills.  At first I kept thinking about how hard it was to find a weird and different angle.  This made me not want to try because I was so frustrated at finding the "right argument".  Although once I figured out the twist on my thesis, everything started running more smoothly.

The readings in our textbooks and the article on Facebook really helped my motivation because they made me want to be able to write how they showed did.  The readings made me want to write with more force and passion.  They also changed my thinking patterns because, they made me look at my writing through a new perspective.  I could not just make some broad generalization because in order for me to write like the Facebook article I had to leave my comfort zone.  This is how the writings made me motivated and think and write differently.

Our class discussions have basically done the same as the readings.  Talking about writing in a unique form was also helpful.  In class there were examples on how to classify things in different ways.  For example classifying those random objects in our bags really helped to motivate a new way of looking at the world.  That activity forced me to think in a critical way because the ordinary answer was not the best one.  These are the reasons that our in class discussions helped me .

Project one was very insightful for helping the change of my thinking patterns.  Project one was like our discussions and readings, but it was better.  The project made us apply our new ways of thinking in essay form.  This project was different from any other one I have ever written because usually writing about facts is easy, but writing in a unique way is more difficult.  I think this project motivated me to try harder and think in an abstract way.  This is how the project helped me.

The curriculum was very useful for different reasons.  The readings were motivating from reading an article that was really intriguing.  The in class discussions started a new way of thinking.  Writing project one made me apply the things we learned in class to make a strong argument in my paper.  I think that the readings, in class discussions, and Project one all helped to make me motivated and think differently.