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Include all of your writing projects from this class. You should summarize these projects (including genre, audience, and purpose) and identify the skills you practiced for each project. Note: I have only summarized one project as a model.
Describe your writing process for one of the projects and include descriptions of and evidence of a revision and/or change you made and why you made it.
Project 1: Letter to my son
SAMPLE ENTRY: I wrote a letter to my son about how I learned that I had a fixed mindset about mechanical issues, and I focused on the moment I shifted to a growth mindset: the pellet stove that heated our house in the rural Berkshires broke when it was extremely cold out and he was a toddler. My instinct was to leave the house in the cold, dark night but then I realized I was approaching the problem with a fixed mindset ("I'm bad at mechanical stuff") and I asked myself: what would a person with a growth mindset do in this moment? The answer was to watch a YouTube video. My message to my son is that when life is challenging, we might find that we default to a fixed mindset and if we have these concepts in our head, and are reflective, we can push past this default to solve problems we might think we are incapable of solving: I fixed the pellet stove!
The skills I practiced for this project included: defining a concept for an audience unfamiliar with it, summarizing a source (Dweck's Ted Talk), and using a concept as a lens to examine my experience to arrive at a fresh insight.
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