The Effect of the Curriculum

The writing activities in this class have made me look at writing in a different way. In high school I considered writing to be very formal and I was always uncomfortable with it. However, the blog entries changed my view on writing. Before this I have never wrote any blog entries, but I found out that this is a way to express myself very easily. I enjoyed the first blog entry very much and I was very much interested in keeping a blog and following other blogs. In the actual meetings we talked mostly about organizing ideas which kept me from feeling lost when I was writing.
Of course, there was project one, which was more like the formal writing projects I had in high school. I enjoyed "wallowing in complexity" part of the project which was a nice exercise for my brain. The actual writing part, however, did not go too well.
Over all, the writing assignments has helped me to relate the writing skills to everyday use such as blog entries and e-mails. Organizing the ideas has helped me not only with my writing skills but with the whole thinking abilities in general, making me see things more clearly and be more creative. I feel that it did not help me with the actual writing skills.