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Prompt: "Select…[some]…pieces of writing you are considering for your Portfolio. Read through them and come up with 'subconcepts' that connect the writings together – subconcepts are ideas that stem from a central concept involving 'feeling, impressions, thoughts, images, or actions associated with the concept.' Your central concept is obviously writing so you generate subconcepts in response to writing. Once you have your subconcepts, you can create your mind map."
This blog was extremely difficult to accomplish on account of Photoshop crashing, leading to me losing well over an hour of progress. To that end, the key and most of the images that were originally within this mind map are lost to the sands of time. To make sure this eventuality does not happen again I will be "control s-ing" ever single time I finish an action within Photoshop, which is something I should have been doing anyway, but I digress.
Now onto the actual content. The current mind map is color coded with the number of connections each individual subconcept has. Ones with only one connection are monochrome, ones with two are yellow, ones with three are blue, and ones with four or more are green.
Additionally, the closeness of the relation is determined by the line type. A dotted lines are the least close, which is when the relation between the subconcept in the work could be argued to be nonexistent; the stripped lines are the middle ground, meaning that there is some relation between the piece and the subconcept but not a solid one; and solid lines having, well, solid connections between the subconcept and the work in question.
The pieces in question can be accessed via clicking the words below:
Written Reflection
Looking Backward
What previous knowledge about writing did you recall?
I recalled the wisdom of countless battles grappling with the keys and the pencils of bygone times. In doing so, my powers have doubled sense the last time class met.
What previous knowledge about the topic(s) did you recall?
I was fairly familiar with the knowledge discussed in the pieces I looked at. Of course, getting a refresher on them helped in the clarity of the topics, but there was nothing unexpected within them.
What problems or challenges did you encounter?
The biggest problem I came across was writing their descriptions. The reason this was the case was because finding the specific names within their courses was difficult and because the number of pieces that I have put up/plan to put up is enormous.
Looking Inward
How did you feel about the writings?
I am disgruntled because at the start of college I thought of myself as a competent writer, but it appears that I was lackluster in comparison to my current skillset. Perhaps in the future I will look back on these assignments and see the failings in them as well.
What did you learn about writing working on this?
That I have indeed improved over time, contrary to my belief that my progression has been relatively stagnant.
What did you learn about yourself working on this?
That I have indeed improved over time, contrary to my belief that my progression has been relatively stagnant. Hold on, didn’t I say that already?
What risks did you take? What was comfortable about it?
Well, the aforementioned repetition is a risk, but that is not necessarily related to the topic at hand. I think that messing with the page layout to fit more onto a page to meet a maximum requirement was a pretty funny risk.
Looking Forward
What is something that you want to continue working on?
My humor, my efficiency, my time management, my grammar, and my circadian rhythms. If I had to choose one, though, it would be my efficiency, because I am suboptimal in that regard.
What would you do differently if you were to revise it in the future?
I would do nothing differently when pertaining to writing. Messing with time is bad luck and rarely ever goes right anyway.
How did writing these pieces help you in the future?
I only grow stronger the more I write and write more I shall. In all seriousness though, they are a great snapshot on my progress over time, which allows me to course correct on my shortcomings and lean into my strengths.
Looking Outward
What effect did you want it to have on your audience?
That depends on the piece, but in general I want to have some emotional reaction to my work. Hopefully the intended one, but I will settle for any.
What about this piece makes you a writer?
What do you mean by this piece? Wait a second, this whole thing was supposed to be about a specific piece? Uh oh…oh well, I guess I dropped the ball on this one. Okay, well…the piece in question, “Last Logs” makes be a writer for a very simple reason, it is writing. Aha! There it is! I pulled victory from the jaws of defeat!
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