Part 1 of Blog #9 Feb. 20th

I learned a lot from this project. First off, I learned how to create a mind map and a memo. I’ve never made either of these before and I actually loved doing it. I like how this project wasn’t like usual class projects and that I was able to expand and do what I wanted to do with it. I also learned how to create my own rhetorical ecology structure with subcategories. I learned all of these things by trial and error. I was able to gain more knowledge based off of viewing classmates mind maps and memos. Also, Professor Wilgar’s advice when we had workshop helped me a lot because I realized I put way too much information and should’ve just done bullets of words instead of paragraphs with many sentences. I felt that viewing other people’s work helped me edit and critique my own project. This new knowledge is significant because I’m able to take all of the skills that I’ve learned from making this project further into this course for future assignments/projects and I can also use it in the future. I need to make sure that I know what a white paper is so that I don’t just write an essay about my discipline in Project 2. I also need to gather my thoughts about what discipline I want to talk about because I’m not drawn to one specific major/minor. Whether it’s a marketing or finance major, both, a minor in one of them, or a minor in economics and/or business analytics, I’ll have to decide which one works best with my life at the moment and the one that I can talk most about/am the most passionate about.