Reflective Artifact

Throughout this semester, this class has influenced my writing significantly making it

notable to me that I need improvement and practice. There were many thought-provoking

activities and questions, and I had many ideas but did not know how to express them as fluently

and correctly as I would have liked. My words did not contain the essence of my thoughts, that

was the case in the beginning. Now that I recognize such deficiencies, I want to get more

involved in writing and reading to expose myself to many forms of expression and at the same

time help not only my writing but my communication.

One of the first terms introduced was the positionality of something present on paper but

rooted in our existence. It may seem common sense that we are not all the same and that what we

have lived through influences our thoughts, perspectives, and actions, but it is something easily

forgotten in society. We become the center of our world and expect everything to run at our

convenience even other people. By recognizing our positionality and why I am who I am for me

and for others, I can in a way place myself in others' shoes or just recognize everyone has

individuality. In our writings in this class, I was able to express who I am and how that

influences the topic I was discussing so that the reader and I can see the connection between me,

the writer, and the importance of the topic discussed. Because as mentioned before we have to

be told more than what we see/read, it is more impactful if a person writing or speaking about

something is not just an observer but a victim of the topic an actual player.

In the start and process of my research coming up with a topic of interest and not being

given one was more challenging. Because I would have to be held accountable for my choice if

it's something I decided to write on. Its good to be out of the comfort zone ,but I felt that

homework feeling like anything else where a passion becomes a task. I really tried to set myself
to express and structure on the topics In the bible that have always caught my attention and had

an effect in my life. I felt it was a great opportunity to share that with others and at the same time

help me follow a research process for clear development and delivery such as in preaching. You

see a necessity you research on its real-world connections and what the bible says. Not just what

the bible says, this helped to live out and observe where the bible has been helpful for many. I

believe that my actions not only for me but for others can affect their future. Like if I see

someone doing something wrong that affects them and just let it pass and in the future, they are

suffering the consequences, it is not my fault entirely but knowing I had the power to prevent

that in their life by just listening, and opinion or a hug I don’t want to miss those chances and

this was essay and remix project was one to manifest my grain of sand in reflecting on what

Christianity has done in my life and maybe it is something that could be helpful to others even if

they don’t believe.

There were many class discussions guided by the professor and it was amazing to see her

flexibility and diversity among everyone’s topics and positionality where on the spot she could

connect the topic with a short and efficient sort of advice or starter on their topic through each

phase. As well as to note out the faults in the research question or idea if she sensed there would

be too obvious of responses to their inquiries where there wouldn’t be anything to research. As

well as to refute their claim in a way to see how the students could respond and make their

argument stronger. This stood out to me in class and I was a victim of such a tactic thankfully.

One of the various group activities that helped me get an insight of where I was and

where I wanted to be was in the feedback portion of the class where I was able to read my peers

paper well organized and on point with clear sections and a personal connection I immediately

realized the experience and hard work and tried my best in giving her the best feedback. I in turn
knew there was many mistakes and faults in my paper and thankful to her I was able to guide my

paper a bit better and give it form. I found this really helpful because I hadn’t jumped that part

where my writing should not be exclusive to my understanding especially in this type of paper so

having another perspective really made it easier to point out sections of my paper and work to

clear up I think that applies in all types of situation with classes, work and ideas.

In my last section of creating a remix artifact out of my research it pushed me to think

about something more personal and of my liking other than writing. I needed to state my purpose

on this personal topic and push my self to do something I had wanted to do way before. Which is

to create posts on my thoughts, ideas and commentary on aspects of life and the bible. I learned

many was to make effective use of multimodality and really bring out the essence of my topic

and catch the attention of my viewer/reader, even if this time was an assignment I can use that as

my base and experiment with it freely. My professor said it should be able to live on itself even

after class is over.

This course was a more self-centered class that I enjoyed ,it was a pause from all the

math and codes from my major. It was focused in my and how what makes me me ,in mind,

actions and values could be effectively expressed in the present changing world.