In my opinion I thought that
Project one was a bit difficult. Although there were some parts I did really
well on, there were also some key parts I really struggled with.
The part
that I found the easiest when doing the project were the observation notes and
describing my “place” in the paper. I found it really easy describing the
bridge and using all the little details to really paint a picture in the
readers mind. Then came the analysis
part and that’s where I truly struggled. Describing the place was easy but then
after finding all the hidden meanings and going beyond the simple details was
where I got stuck. I didn’t understand how to put into words exactly what I
thought every little aspect of the bridge meant or what it symbolized. It took
me a while to finally go more into depth with these descriptions and find these
inner meanings and what exactly each part signifies.
I learned
that writing an informative analytical essay isn’t as easy as it seems. It
takes a lot of thinking and brainstorming to make sure you know what everything
means and to get your perspective or point across to the reader. You have to
first understand what you are talking about before you can try and teach
someone else to see what you see. This project taught me that you can’t just
spend a few hours writing a paper in this format, it takes a lot more time and
a few extra reads to make sure you have the concept down. Next time I will
definitely take more time in writing the essay and definitely take into
consideration my classmates comments, when I know that they are only trying to
make my paper that much better and give advice.
I am not
really sure if I included enough analysis from what was asked of us. I tried my
hardest to look beyond the simple descriptions and more into what each one
signifies but I still found myself stuck and as if I was repeating myself. In
the future I plan on hopefully taking even more detailed notes and observations
to give me a lot more to work with. Even though I had 4 pages of notes I still
felt as if I ran out of things to talk about and that if I would have taken
more and been even more detailed as I was that I wouldn’t have necessarily ran
out of things to talk about.
This
project taught me that looking through another lens like the authors we were
assigned can really alter ones perspective. I thought the lens we were able to
use gave us more to talk about and to relate to but also proved as back up for
why we felt something meant what we think it means.
You are not alone in your struggles with this paper. I also struggled a lot with the analysis portion of this paper. For me it was not so much as finding what was there that had meaning but connected it to a lens that one of the authors used in their papers. Finding quotes that expressed what I was trying to convey was also a difficulty while writing this paper. I would say that the easiest thing that you can do to take a deeper look into the things around you is to look at the people that come to the place and use it in their every day to day lives. When you think of the people, you think of why they are there and what meaning the area has to them rather then yourself. It is important not to think of the place by how you see it but by how others may see it. If you think in a philosophical sense then it becomes just a little bit easier to analysis the bigger messages hidden behind a place or thing. Looking into the past of a place can also help you better understand what significance a place has and what details you can analysis and put into a paper.
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