Week 8 progress

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Well... Let's just be honest here, i have fallen behind a bit in this class work wise. I have skipped a fair amount of assignments and even this one I am doing on the grace period Friday morning. Given it isn't like I'm skipping these assignments to mess around, in fact I'm just skipping these assignments to work on others. That isn't really how it should work though. I feel like this is definitely a common problem for online classes in that it is hard for me to consider it into my schedule with the rest of my work.

I have also been working on fixing this, I've been doing a bit of extra credit the last few weekends and in a few more I should be all caught up. The problem here is that my semester itself is just becoming more and more busy as it continues. it will just take a concerted effort to do the work in this class to make it possible.

Week 8 Comments and Feedback

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Overall the feedback I've gotten in this class is exactly what I'd expect it to be from fellow students. I get a solid mix of good criticism
/ praises for what I'm doing, and then other posts that just blindly compliment aspects of my original post.

Now I can not say I am not innocent of this exact problem. Especially for the 60 word comments it is so much easier to just pick one little thing from the person's writing and spend the words talking about how amazing it is.

I do think it is important to do this though, even if most of the feedback people give can be meaningless mumbling. I think it is important to get people used to reading a variety of styles and be able to find something unique that they liked from it. By doing this I've found it a bit easier to pinpoint stylistic differences in stories that are otherwise the same.

Week 8 reading and Writing

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I like this class so far. the reading are all very interesting and it's hard to say that they don't have a lot going on in them. My only real complaint with the reading is that I often feel like I lack the proper cultural context to properly appreciate them beyond just a strange story. It is hard for me to place these with a culture in mind when I've hardly encountered or studied that culture at all. I'm not really saying that is something that could be fixed in this class, if anything it should be on me to do the research separately if I really wanted to know. But as is, it isn't something I could possible fit into my schedule.

Besides for that I have definitely run into the problem of forgetting i have work due in this class. That is just poor time- management on my part and no amount of articles on the subject will help.

I like the writing assignments, they really allow me to go in depth and really understand a story that I had previously just read over to get to the next one. It is a good way of making a student slow down and pay attention.