Week #9

(Wednesday, November 1, 2006)

The biggest concern on everyone’s mind is the semiotic analysis, which is due in one week today. I do not have a completed first draft as of yet, but I am fully prepared to begin writing today. It seems as though a lot of people are still trying to figure out a topic to write about; I would not want to put myself under that kind of stress. Today we shared with the class our progress so far on the ‘Mapping’ assignment. Since my group has completed all of the group assignment, except that one, we unanimously decided to just get the basics of our research completed for today’s class. It’s good to hear that we’re on the right track with this assignment.
The only portion of the portfolio that I have not yet been able to work as much as I would have liked to so far is the image curation. We are planning to look at photojournalism as for the images rather than taking our own; however, we have not yet come up with a solid concept, which worries me a little. I am pleased that at least the more difficult tasks are out of the way. I think that my group planned very efficiently in getting each task completed. I feel confident that each of our projects will be completed with plenty of time for each of us to write our reflections and other parts of the portfolio that require individual work.
I look forward to handing in my semiotic analysis next week as it is probably causing me more stress than any of my other assignments. I don’t think that I have ever had to submit a paper that so heavily impacts my final grade. It was more time consuming than I had originally thought to plan out how I was going to write my essay. I am about midway through the writing process, which I am fine with because I find that planning my writing takes a lot longer than actually writing. I also plan on exchanging papers with three of my classmates, so that they can edit and evaluate it for me by Sunday or Monday. I have really enjoyed writing this paper and have put a lot of effort into covering all of the bases as far as backing up my argument. I expect that my mark will reflect my effort and hopefully I will be able to prove to Mark and Chantelle that my poor grade on the written portion of my autobiography does not reflect my best work.