Midterm Letter

Dear Jasmine,

This quarter, I actually made an effort for writing an essay. I’m retaking this class because I failed the 39B this winter. The theme for that previous writing class was suburban dystopia which made me hard to understand. The theme was so difficult that I lost my interest in writing about suburban dystopia; however, this class is very interesting for me. As a gamer, I feel the protagonists in the book, For the Win. I don’t think I spent much time on writing this winter; however, now I do make an effort. For the CRRP assignment, I found many resources and I actually read the feedback from my peer and you. By the way, the comment that you made helped me a lot because that gave me an outline for the CRRP. I learned that if I spend time on one assignment then I make a good result. The twitter and the medium are unfamiliar to me because I barely check Facebook and I do not like social network service personally. But I really do enjoy that I can interact with other peers through twitter.

CRRP went successful so far. Even though I don’t have feedback for my final CRRP paper yet, I would say that I actually listened and followed your instruction. My peer said, I need to write sharp thesis and I need to analyze the genre conventions of YA fiction. Also, you told me to change thesis and write more clear statement about analyzing. So I focused on those two peer reviews. Therefore, I spent much time on writing and visited Fullerton library in order to find some resources that can make my thesis stronger. Instead of listing the facts of genre conventions I focused more on analyzing each paragraphs by making three paragraphs which discusses about distinct characteristics of young adult fiction. For the next RA assignment which is more complexed and difficult, I would focus more on writing clear thesis which relates to the prompt, so I can have more specific feedbacks from you and other peer.

The one challenge for this class is that I actually have to read a book thoroughly. When I’m reading books, I just read the words and I do not like analyzing it by myself. But I think I should focus more on analyzing books in order to perform “critical thinking”.

For the past 4 weeks, I had a hard time focusing on this class because I’m taking another classes in UCI which is so difficult that I just want to pass. My live is running low and I’m very exhausted because focusing on two classes in summer is very hard and intense. Next week, my other class ends, then I will be very motivated for the next six weeks and focus more and more for the assignments. I wish I can enjoy my rest of the writing class.

My goal for this class is to make an effort so I do not regret last. I would try to read and understand the prompt given in a careful manner. Also, I would try to focus more on twitter and the medium because I’m still not familiar to those social networking services. I wish I can interact more with my classmates. I would read the book more critically so I can make deep analysis for the next 6 weeks’ assignments. Also, I would contact the instructor more and more to make a great RIP assignment and I will not put my RIP assignment to last minute because I failed to perform a good RIP last winter. I wish I get positive feedbacks from my instructor.

By the way, your feedbacks for my assignments are very positive compare to the other instructors that I had so far. If you make more negative but critical comments something like “This is awkward or this is wrong and you should change” will help me to coordinate and reorganize my essay. I hope I can interact with you more and more to have a successful summer writing class.