Journal, Compass and Multigenre Reflection

Rubie Beltrán

Prof. Cynthia Pittmann

Intermediate English 3104-134

6 May 2018

Journal, Compass and Multigenre Reflection

   Beginning the second semester of the course of Intermediate English, I knew we had to keep doing more journals. I think my initial reaction was to complain about it with myself, but when I bought the notebook (journal), I became excited when it came the time to decorate the outside of the journal, I got to customize it with images that spoke to me and resembled my personality. The front of the journal mostly featured pictures taken by me and the pictures that had quotes on them were from Pinterest. The back of the journal featured "memes" about University experience as to lighten up the stress and overall hectic semester and remind me that sometimes it is good to just laugh and unwind. On the other hand, the almost daily task of writing in the journal varied from time to time. When I felt very stressed and anxious, I would take my journal and pen out to write until there was no more space left on the page, those times writing did not feel much of "task" but sort of decompressing and letting myself go for a bit. Yet other times I really did not feel the want or need to write anything. 

    However, one of the things I found very exasperating to write, was the compasses. Although the professor said this semester we only had to write ten, I still did not enjoy the process or idea of them. I have a very negative aspect towards numbers and measuring my emotions through them, I did not get the concept of making them, at all. I had no feeling of connection towards it so most of the time I just wrote random numbers that did not mean anything to me, but that is just my honest opinion...

    The multigenre project was a fun and creative assignment that I would have liked to do more of if we had the time. Writing a letter to my younger self, was something I had always wanted to do and this project gave me the freedom and creativity to do it. The metaphor of the letter was something I also enjoyed doing even though it seemed challenging since I did not want my metaphor to be written poorly. Overall, the multigenre project was an interesting feature of the journal. 

Work Cited

Pittmann, Pynthia. "Journal, Compass and Multigenre Reflection". Class assignment. 6 May 2018.