Unit 2 Final Learning Blog

As Unit 2 has come to an end I am proud to say that I learned a lot and got a chance to do things that I haven’t did before. Coming into unit 2 I was skeptical about working in a group but once I was comfortable it wasn’t so bad and I actually enjoyed the experience. I enjoyed being able to bounce my ideas off my group members and getting their opinion. I also enjoyed not having to do everything on my own. Communication was a vital role in this unit. During the beginning of this unit there was little or no communication in our group so no one member knew what the other members were doing. This was a huge problem because when the first part of our assignment was due no one had done it and we had to put something together so that we can get credit. After this incident I worked on being more open and outgoing. My instructor played a key role in this transformation as well. The more questions the group had for her the more she made us talk amongst each other and come to an agreement. Once all of our kinks were out we then openly communicated with each other and stated which parts of the project we will feel comfortable doing. One of my major accomplishments of this unit would be writing a research proposal and research design. I had never done this before not even in my prior science courses. It was a bit of a challenge because I didn’t clearly know what was asked of me and after I completed it I still wasn’t sure that it was right. When we reached the research design portion I had to do research on my own of what a research design was because I had no idea where to begin. After going thru many different research designs I came up with my own. After a few revisions I finally grasped the concept of what exactly my instructor wanted. Things that I have never done before until unit 2 is actually conduct research in a form that was not your usual academic research paper. After conducting the research I learned how to track my results in something called the research findings. Overall the point of unit 2 was to see how society puts certain rules on genres and how they would react when you change those rules. I think it was very effective for us to see this by actually doing our own research on the genre of our choice. I chose to change the content of a children’s book to that of a news article. From my research I now know that if you change a genre to something out of the norm people will automatically think it is wrong. Just by changing the content in the book to long sentences with big words people thought that the book shouldn’t be given to children. Immediately after reading the book people was able to point out what was “wrong” with it. Although they could say what was wrong about it they could not necessarily tell me why those things were wrong. One individual actually said it’s wrong because no other children’s books are made like that. What I got from my results is that people are afraid to put society’s constraints aside because they feel like its only one right way to do certain things.