Week 8 Reading and Writing

I must say that I was intimidated and overwhelmed with all the reading and my writing in the beginning, but now that I have a strategy and worked on my time management, I feel more confident. However, some of the readings are long, and I find it harder for me to read in the time I have allotted for my weekly reading. Thus far, the only unenjoyable reading for me was the “Journey of the West.”  I was tortured for hours while trying to make it through the end of the story, which to me was way too many hours. Not only that I had to reread certain parts to gain understanding for my analysis. When you have other responsibilities reading thirty (literary) pages can be a bit much. I am okay, with my project. I would like new feedback from my classmates who gave me suggestions, now that I have taken their suggestions into considerations and made the corrections. 

As far as my writing is concerned, the reading notes have helped my writing my analyses less stressful.  It allowed me to go back and pull important points that I found interesting and exactly where I can find it in the text. And considering that some of the stories are more than twenty pages, knowing exactly where to pull facts to support your argument from a text is less time consuming. Also reading my classmates work helps me understand some of the text we have read thus far better.  Looking forward, I think writing reading notes and analyses, reading three projects and writing 150 word count for both and rewriting our project takes away from being able to focus more on the writings because you are trying to get everything done on top of the weekly reading. Overall, I am enjoying the class.