Dear Ms. Pica

     I am not going to lie, I have very mixed feelings about this assignment, part of it may be because it just so happened to line up with a huge work load in Political Science but I was not as happy about this assignment as the other ones. So far I have really liked all of the assignments but this felt a little too laid back and jumbled. It is good to occasionally write in another medium, but it made me feel pretty lazy and this just never really felt like as big of a deal as the other assignments, when it was still worth a lot of points and a quite large part of our grade. But it was pretty fun writing in a new and unique way for an English class and if I get a relatively good score on this assignment I will be happy and stop stressing about the feeling of lack of structure, which I am used to.

     It’s actually a kind of funny story about how I came up with this subject to write on. My brother and I were sitting around eating sandwiches and watching TED talks on TV. We started a huge discussion about how much better off we would be if we had been taught like the TED talk was explaining. We probably talked for a whole hour about the idea and we were both passionate about it, but I thought, “If I can talk for a whole hour on the subject how much could I write on it?”

     The peer feedback portion of our assignment has been kind of bothering me for a while, I don’t want to try to seem like I know more about teaching than you, but I feel that I would get a lot more out of having in depth peer review later in the assignment. When we do our workshops I always get the same exact thing… (this essay needs more content, not a very clear or even present conclusion, ect.) stuff that I would expect out of only having completed 50% of the assignment. After the first draft I usually know exactly what I need to do next, it is when I get a little further on that I get a little stuck.

Sincerely,

Andrew Harrison