A Bit of a Reflection (Assign 3)

As I began reading Vicente I started to have my own ideas of what he was saying. In the first assignment we were supposed to take notes. So when I went to write my blogs, I looked back on my notes from reading it the first time. We also had a few class discussions which made me think of things a bit more and in depth than I had before. In the essay the Human Factor was what stood out to me the most and I began to think about it in every way possible. I thought that it had many different ways of showing itself. Then we read Cat’s Cradle and I could just see all these different ways the Human Factor came in to play. Then I thought about how Vicente talked about control and I was thinking that some of the characters in Cat’s Cradle had completely lost control of their lives; which made it all connect for me. I kind of wish I had taken notes on Cat’s Cradle because I had a hard time trying to track down the quotes I remembered. I took a lot of time re-finding them. I chose to talk about the human factor, stupidity, control and technology. I felt that they were all interconnected in this sort of web. I tried to break it down and show how they all connect and influence each other. Basically I was just showing how I put things together in my thoughts.
Peer editing online was pretty interesting. I liked it because you had a bit more time to do it and it was nice to read a variety of papers, even if you didn’t choose to comment on them. The only thing that was a disadvantage was not being able to write something right next to it, instead you had to be like “in your third paragraph, you said this….” I don’t really feel that the online format changed my reading practices because I have been reading things online for quite awhile now. These days, people can get their news online and basically everything else, so it’s pretty common. I didn’t think it was hard to transfer my blogs to my academic essay, I just took pieces of them and fit them in where I thought they should go.