Week 8 Thlog

Week 8 Thlog

      The main focus of this week’s meetings was forming ideas for Writing Project 3. This WP might be the most challenging one for me. For some people it might be a fun chance to express their creativity, but I’m going to have to try really hard to find my creative side. Like I said in class, I’m not good with computer graphics or technology or anything. And I suck at coming up with my own ideas. That’s why I want to take advantage of the Web MD post, because I like the idea and I honestly can’t think of anything better.

      I like my topic right now, but I hope I can come up with enough ideas for my ‘younger’ genre. My idea is to create the brain game in which a voice within the game asks the child to identify a certain part of the brain by touching that part with a wand-type thing. I might manually draw and write the instructions so that I can incorporate color.

When we talked about summarizing in class, I didn’t think the concept was a big deal. But when I tried my best to summarize my WP3 article, it was challenging to condense all the key points into just two paragraphs, especially because the study had like five main focuses and used such scientific terminology.

      Another challenge of WP3 will be incorporating the McCloud reading into the paper. I think I’ll have to choose one of the important “choices” to focus on because the essay is so short. I might choose choice of angle but write about it in a metaphorical way. I can examine the different angles that each new genre looks at depression and the physiological process behind it. Like how the brain game uses these phenomena to teach kids, and Web MD portrays the information in a way that allows people looking for answers to find them, to self-diagnose.