Assignment 5

Assignment three was about coming up with a writing proficiency assignment. t first I thought it was really hard because I couldn't think of anything. But after a little looking around and thinking I realized that a quite simple assignment would be good. The important thing was to get the student to write and the best way to do this is to make them write about something they like. So I thought that books or movies would be a good topic since everyone has seen at least one good movie, or read a good book. The reason I choose Film review instead of book review was that it was more likely that the student had seen a good movie. Everyone doesn't like to read after all. Once I had chosen a subject it wasn't very hard. Write about a movie you like, and to get some more thought and feeling behind the written text I asked the student to consider why s/he liked it and some other help questions. I believe it is good to learn to reflect over why we like or dislike things, it will help us understand ourselves and possibly others too. It was a good exercise for us to do too as it focuses on our future jobs.

My peer wrote a nice little essay on her favourite movie. She wrote about it in a good way and had taken into account my help questions. She wrote why she liked it, a sort summary on the movie and characters, reflected on the hows and whys of the movie etc. It was also quite short, but without being constricted which was my hope. So basically she wrote the assignment as I had planned it would be written.

My own assignment that I chose to do was a review on a book. I think mine became a little too long, but I also know this is mostly because the book is very long and has many head characters and a complex story. I am aware that I can get a bit too long-winded when I write about things since I keep getting new ideas about what to write about. It just gets longer. But over all I think I did a quite good job as I mainly reflected about why I liked it so much. It was a fun/interesting assignment and one that I feel is a good one. It's always good to reflect on things and make our own thought visible to us.