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This year has brought many challenges. My relationship with education is notoriously fickle. My whole life I always felt that money was more important then formal education. As long as I can remember, I always had a hustle for money with multiple jobs. Even during my seven years in the military I never really cared about formal education. I thought that I would receive all the education I need from "The School of Hard Knocks". Threw many ups and downs, small fortunes won and lost, small businesses build and failed I learned I was wrong. I'm a small business owner now and feel as though my lack of formal education has held me back from my true potential. In this padlet I am going to self reflect on four of my assignments from the 2020 fall semester English class, to prove formal education isn't a mundane task. Though honest and humble self assessment we can all get better and grow in our passion.

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The purpose of this piece was to write expressively about a place you have a relationship with. We were required to use pictures to help invoke the readers understanding of the emotional connection. This piece was difficult for me. I have such a strong connection with this place but never wrote it down in thought out organized words. I feel as thought the flow of the paper could have been better because of this. When writing it I had to force my brain to become more organized in the delivery because of the emotional attachment, but it still needed to be polished. The descriptions I used were fitting but I feel as though I could have gone more into descriptive details using more of a poetry style language. I feel as though I hit the objectives of the project but the closing could've been better to really drive home the connection.

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This piece is my favorite of the semester. Arguments, research and flaw identification is natural to me. I enjoy reading controversial things that invoke emotion and rebutting with factual non emotional information. I believe my research was on point for this piece. I truly think the research I did and the readings and videos gave me a great understanding of my topic. I learned a lot of smart and useful information in my research. My conclusion could have been better. I feel as though I could have sent home and summarized my argument and research to really make the paper stick in the minds of the reader.

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essay 2 persuasive purpose mike armatino

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This project is bitter sweet for me. I have worked on group assignments before and this one was the hardest because of lack of participation. Julian Richards and I did ninety percent of the work on this. I don't like to dime out the others in the group but it was true, and placed a heavy work load on both of us. I understand in a non synchronous class everybody has extenuating circumstance but communication was lackluster, despite Julian and my attempts. I do think the conversations that was shared between Julian and I were very fruitful and had a lot of great content in our dialogue and work performed .I wish we were able to create a group charter and a better assignment of roles within the group but we were not able to. I feel as though If we did have better group participation that the document would've been better because of feedback and multiple views. Despite these issues I feel as though using different mediums to deliver a message was fun and exciting. I feel as though we could have done better on our recording and did a walk threw video instead. I have definitely learned a lot form this group project

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Multimodal presentation group 4 document

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I'm ending with the diagnostic writing exercise to come back full circle and evaluate my progress as a writer. What a mess the diagnostic paper was. I was knocking off cobwebs in every aspect of writing. Paper structure, punctuation, grammar, and flow were all elementary. In some ways they still may be now, but not as bad as the beginning of the semester. My only strength in this piece was my honesty.

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Threw my journey these past couple months, I have learned a lot. Effective expression, persuasive purpose, and effective group building techniques that are all paramount to being an effective writer and communicator. In these few months I have knocked off the cobwebs and solidified my thoughts on education to be positive and enjoyable. I no longer have a fickle relationship with education.