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In the first and second week, we have thoroughly discussed the nature of the common module, Reading to Write. The teacher provided us with a copy of the rubric to read and annotate, so we can properly understand the outcomes of this module. We have completed activities such as personal reflections to allow us fully understand the concept of reading to write. We have discussed the relationship between reading and writing, that is how reading can influence our writing capabilities and how writing can influence our reading capabilities.

More specifically, we have begun to understand how our reading habits can directly influence our ability to produce quality writing. We also received our assignment notifications, giving us ample time to complete them. I began writing journal entries for the assignment. The assessment is a multimodal assessment. However, it still seems to have a lot of components which will take a long time to do, so I will need to plan effectively.

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In week three we took a more practical approach to working on our writing skills. We watched a podcast on writing effective prose which involved multiple famous authors giving advice on how to improve writing skills. Additionally, we were given cartoons to read through which contained little bits of basic advice on writing creative texts. This lesson was practical as it provided legitimate advice to improve our writing skills. I intend to use the skills I learnt when writing my creative piece.

I was also interested in the idea of listening to podcasts for educational purposed, so I have decided to start listening to some in my own time. We wrote our first personal statements in week 3, so that we could have time to hand them in, have the teacher mark them and receive feedback on our work. The first personal statement is mostly about us as the students in the Advanced English course, to discuss the common module and to try and prove our worth for the course.

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In week four we began to practice the concept of the module. We did an activity where we went to the library to pick out a few books and read the start of these books. We were to then take notes on how the author started their book to try and capture the reader, as well as their personal writing style. We then wrote our own story starter using the knowledge and skills we found in the story starters we read. I aim to use the knowledge I gained from studying examples of story starters to write the start for my creative text for the assignment. Unfortunately, at this point I have not started on the assignment yet.

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In week five we learnt about characterisation and building a character, setting and plot around a stimulus. We were shown a drawing made by a child and we analysed the drawing and attempted to make judgements about the drawing and the person who made it from the perspectives of different types of people. This was an interesting lesson on perspective as if I wanted to write a story about being a doctor, I would need to research and study the perspective of a doctor by reading and speaking to doctors.

I am reading a book at home called Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon, an autobiography written by a man who dropped out of high school and worked in construction for much of his youth, then decided to pursue a career in medicine. This is an interesting book and it provides perspective on the life of a medical student and doctor.

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In week 6 we watched a long TED Talk about the dangers of a single story and different perspectives. Essentially, a single story is the individual, biased perspective of a single person on a certain subject. We learnt the importance of studying multiple perspectives on a specific topic before making a judgement as almost all opinions are biased and to learn the truth about said topic, we need to derive it from the opinions of different people and legitimate research. In this week I chose the platform on which I would base my website and continued with my journal entries.

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In week seven we spent lessons researching various educational websites such as the TED-ED website to judge them and gain ideas on how to structure our own websites. This was one of the more beneficial lessons in terms of our assignments as the website is the basis for the entire assignment. If our website is weak, it could compromise the rest of the assignment. We learnt about how to structure a website to make it easy to use and visually appealing for the user.

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In this week we wrote monologues in groups to test our ability to create voice in a character. We also had to read out the monologues, as being expressive is also an important skill to learn. Reading the monologues tested both our ability to create voice and perspective, and to notice a voice and express it. This lesson taught me that I need to rewrite some parts of my creative text to create a better character and voice. I decided to change the personality of my character to create depth and make the character more realistic.

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In the final days leading to the due date of the assignment, I have had time to reflect on the course and assignment as a whole. This course is not very content based at all. Rather, it is about developing skills in writing through reading books and other forms of text. After all, this module is titled Reading to Write, and as such you would expect it to be about increasing the amount of reading we do, as well as the variety of texts we read to increase in our knowledge of writing in general. This allows us to learn our own personal writing style and improve our ability in writing, which is possibly the most important skill we will need for the rest of the Advanced English course.

In terms of the assignment, I have learnt about how to bring together all the skills I have learnt in the course to write and perfect a single creative text. As you might have assumed from reading my previous journal entries, I had trouble managing time and completing tasks in a planned out and gradual manner. This has almost nothing to do with the nature of the assignment itself; although the assignment is long and contains multiple aspects each of which in itself could be considered an entire assignment, we were provided with ample time to complete the assignment before the due date. My inability to manage time spans almost entirely from my procrastinating and lack of adherence to any particular plan. However, I was able to keep up with journal entries and nearing the due date, I was able to pull together and produce the assignment to an adequate standard.