This is my first blog post ever, and might be my last. Assessment Task 3 of English subject is quite unique, if I compare it to earlier assessment task 3. For the first time in my life, I have to write while using the standard of academic writing—which needs good paragraph organization and structural thinking. You may think of me as a really disorganized person, for fellow students of 11.1 classes, just try looking at my bag.
I learned many things from doing the 3rd assessment—whether it is a matter of content or a matter of structural organization. The first thing I will be discussing about is the structural organization. If you are reading this, you might (or will) notice that my English is not perfect at all. In fact, it was highly disorganized! Yes, I admit that this have been my problem since the first time I have been doing an English writing. I have trouble with sentence organizing, grammar, and punctuation. My problem is not actually in deciding what is right or what is wrong, but I tend not to re-read my work for reasons that even I cannot comprehend. Other people, including my instructors and friends, always said to me that I never value my own work; and if I reflect to myself, that might be true. I tend to one day just randomly writing a story or an essay, showing it to somebody, then ripping it into two, scraping it inside a trash bin; just because it doesn’t put up to my own expectations. And this assessment task really helps me to value my own work. For once, my trash bin is still empty—until this very minute I am writing this. I think this happens because I am writing in a short deadline. In less than a month, I am expected to write one full essay, some partial essays, a blog post for a reflection, and a visual/multimedia piece that can be viewed and seen in more ways than one.
Content-wise, I choose the world of video gaming. Since my full essay is a persuasive one, I wrote about “Violence in video games and its effects to humans”; which is said to be a recurring problem in video gaming. While everything is always related to violence (try mentioning one thing that is not related to violence at all, if you have something to say on this one), video games take it to a much higher level. This is because video games are a type of media; same as newspapers, television shows, and radio podcasts. But, of course video games still keeps the highest record of crimes. Even some people voiced their opinion as anti-video games (take for example Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, who is an anti-video game). Why? As explained in my full essay, most video gamers are teenagers, who are suffering from raging hormones, based on a research; and if they cannot control their emotion well; they will tend to be more violent and destructive. I learned a lot about different sides, some that are saying that video games can enhance a student’s imagination and creativity; and Pope John Paul II said that games helped people make friends.
That is all I wanted to say in my reflection. I am sorry if I sounded a bit arrogant in this reflection; it’s just that I am not proficient on expressing my feelings.
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