Reflection

This course has helped me meaningfully reflect on the way I approach the teaching of writing. Overall, my three take-aways at this point of the class is that the only way you get better at writing is to write, that when assessing writing mechanics less is more and that the act of composing includes more than just typing. All of the reflections I mentioned also apply to the forum of digital writing. Although students may use "digitalk" when they write in online formats, they are still getting writing practice. It's so important to encourage students to explore various forms of self- expression and collaboration. Discouraging students from writing online would be doing everyone a disservice. However, I do believe that students need to pay attention to audience as they're writing- this allows students to naturally code switch and to remind students that writing is a social act. I'm also considering using the word "composing" more often. When we discussed multimodal writing, I realized that I believe multimodal composition can include images, videos and other digital elements. At the start of the class I began to think that writing was more complex than I realized, but now my view of writing is actually more simplistic. Writing is a social act and the act of composition is a form of self expression that should be supported in the classroom, online and everywhere inbetween.

In the next three weeks I hope to complete my scholarly project, update my annotated bibliography, make sure I'm up to date on all of my Learning Log posts and comments, complete my last Sociolinguistics reflection, complete my comprehension presentation and paper, submit IRB for my research apprenticeship... and a partridge in a pear tree... oops, that reminds me... I reeeeealllly need to go shopping as soon as possible!