The Ethnography Note assignments were, I believe, the most interesting out of all of the projects in this class, because they allowed for a semester-long log of all the writing I had done as well as my thoughts and writing habits. I realized that the majority of my writing is either due to my obligations as a writer for The Caravel newspaper or various academic essays or summaries. These assignments are written in largely the same way, in the standard academic format of medium-sized paragraphs and formal language. The other, much smaller portion of writing I do is creative, meant either just for myself or for my Creative Writing class. As the semester went on, I noticed that this writing became increasingly erratic and non-structured; I think of that as a good thing, though I did not make any conscious effort to make it so. As for my writing habits, these remained relatively unchanged; I still like to do such assignments late at night or early in the morning. If one thing has changed, I would say that I now usually take more time to structure the outlines of essays before I actually start writing them. I believe the Ethnography Notes are certainly a “reflective method of exploring, inquiring, and learning,” since their purpose was to provoke thoughts about why I write the way I do.
