Honestly watching project runway at the beginning I thought it was going to be brutal to watch and I was going to be watching people complain and make clothes and not be interesting. But I was surprised overtime they were faced with hard challenges that were interesting and harder than I thought they would be. At first when I started this class I was like oh its going to be your typical English class I’m going to write papers and just cruise through this. But that was not the case I felt like when I was watching this show and doing this class felt like I was going through challenges like these designers were.

As a designer they had to adapted there clothes to the problems they faced every week to what was assigned. They had to adjust to different audiences and different styles of work and just go with it. It was so crazy to watch them go from making Disney type themed clothes to clothes made out of trash. The way they adapted in the show was crazy impressive.

The projects we would get we would have to adjust to and read about different types of writing and really figure yourself out like the designers did in the show. The assignments we got had to do with different audiences and had to change when given. Just like the designers did it didn’t matter what it was the assignments were all connected at the end just like the projects they got. Just because you are writing to different audiences and it feels like a big change it really isn’t. They may be different tasks but they are all connected in one way just like our assignments. They go into their final profolio just like us and everything they did was for a reason to test them and make them the best designers they can be. Then our assignments really tested me on how committed I am to becoming a better writer. The difference between us and them was we weren’t really getting cut every week we just had to go with the punches of the assignments.

After doing English 1001 this semester I thought at the beginning that this was going to be a submit a paper about a book type English class. I did not think we would have to dig into yourself and how we learn as much as we did and I appreciate that this class kept me on my toes. I don’t think that iv had to be this imitative to a class in awhile and that was a change.

“The fact that experts’ knowledge is organized around important ideas or
concepts suggests that curricula should also be organized in ways that lead
to conceptual understanding. Many approaches to curriculum design make
it difficult for students to organize knowledge meaningfully.”(page 42 How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School) I read this and that is how I felt like in some of my english clases it was hard to get everything together and once I did get it together it felt like we were already moving on. For this class I felt like I had a better understandig of how to do that with the check ups that we had to which was nice and a little change of pace than the other english classes Iv had. Most teachers would just see that your submiting it on time but the way this classes was our proffesor would watch our patterens of when we submited the hw and when we checked it which was a change for me. It made me want to get my work more done at the begining of the week than last minute like in my other classes. This class really changed my pace of work and made me want to get my stuff done at the beginng of the week instead of procrasnating which was a chnage.

In the new project runway episode I would see how they would adapted to change and how they are hit with tasks and they don’t start stuff last minute and procrastinate they hit the task they are given at the beginning and that’s how Iv been changing to go at this class. You just have to adapt with what you are given like they are in the show.

This week we have read Disciplinarity and Transfer: Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write by Linda S. Bergmann and Janet Zepernick in this they showed us the research they have conducted and to share it to have us learn about how and what college students believed about writing and responses from English classes and from the teachers in the classes. This is showing everyone the processes on how students learned to write and how they see it in ways. One of the first things that stuck out to me related to in the English Department included “fluff,” “b.s.,” and “flowery,” whereas in talking about the writing they did in other classes, students used descriptors such as “concise,” “to the point,” and “not a lot of flowery adjectives.” (Bergmann and Zepernick 125)” I was always used to being able to put things in papers that just added to meet the requaired word requirement in high school to where it would just add to add.

I also related was “Students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal or expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann and Zepernick 129).” I related to that because I do that a lot in how I write and I express in my papers a lot and my writing instead of doing the academic side of what is required sometimes. You just get carried away and then you get off topic but you don’t want to take it out because you still worked hard on added that to your paper for say. That is how I see t go down for a lot f kids who right they get to carried away and just add their opinion instead of just adding what they need to accomplish the objective of the project or assignment at hand.

After reading this I realized how much i relate to this and how many other people write and learn like me with English. This is an eye opener because I thought I was one of very few people who did things like this and learned that way. I saw this that stuck out to me too . “Students think of this personal writing (that is, the writing they do in English classes) as a “natural” act–like engaging in conversation” (Bergmann and Zepernick 129)” I really liked that when I saw it because that’s how I look at writing a natural act sometimes and its hard not to that just how I learn and write and that was a good way of describing it. I never really thought about writing like that until I read that.

For this project I knew I was gonna have to find a little more out their sources so I looked up a lot more medical type research edu websites and it actually turned out better than I thought. The first one I found was a Harvard Med school paper on running for health reasons which I think is critical to add. Then I found out that Stanford has things on running and was a another credible site to turn to in a paper like this so these are two things that I have added to my sources for this project.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/running-health-even-little-bit-good-little-probably-better-201407307310

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2008/08/running-slows-the-aging-clock-stanford-researchers-find.html

Running for health: Even a little bit is good, but a little more is probably better

So for this I am aiming at a strategy to where I am hitting two groups of people to where I connect with the people who already run and then I am connecting with the people who do not run. I am going to do that by showing why I run and why other people do not run. That is a good thing for me to show both sides of the story because Its good to put it in perspective for both parties while reading everything.

It wouldn’t let me put it in the pdf file so I made its own

For this week we were to read “Made not only in words” by Yancey and before this I never really though about composition in our society. I knew that things have changed a lot since books and things were being made but she put a good eye opener on how much things have really changed. She talks about how when the printing press was made it made it easier for people to get books and “Economically, what has been called the Industrial Age promoted a “rising” middle class, indeed a bourgeoisie,” (300 Yancey). Then it was easier for people to be writers all around the world even if they weren’t that serious about it still gave them an option if they wanted to print their books or pieces.

Their have been a lot of advances like she says in our technology that makes it easier and easier for people to get information and become more educated on things. We already inhabit a model of communication practices incorporating multiple genres related to each other ,those multiple genres”(308 Yancey). That is how I see today’s writing with everything we have in this world with how much people write online and how much people can just put out their. Reading this made me really think about how much has changed over these decades on how we pervasive genres and the knowledge that is put out there.