Writing is a process of planning, learning, and revising. It can be a challenge, but it’s also a charm.
Getting Started
Process Entry #1: Week 3 Forum – Project #2 Getting started (Part II)
Initial Planning
Process Entry #2: Week 4 Forum – Assignment Analysis Revisited
Learning from Others
Process Entry #3: Week 4 Forum – Guided Analysis & “Perhaps the World Ends Here” as Autoethnography
A Sneak Peek
Process Entry #4 (Optional): Collaborative Class Blog – Week 4 Response
“I didn’t have a chance to see that with my own eyes. I was born five years after my parents moved there, and since I started to remember things at about five years old, that spectacular view of the ocean has disappeared. The coastline was pushed forward, and our home was surrounded by cranes and construction sites.”
Land reclamation is usually a controversial issue in modern cities like my hometown Shenzhen, China. When I was very young, I could remember that the ocean was viewable from my home. I liked to take a walk on the coast with my parents and enjoy the delightful sea breeze along the path. But years later, as excavators and cranes came in, the coastal line was pushed forward, and all those beauties disappeared. The traffic in my area became much heavier than before. Environmental problems like water pollution and habitat damage began to emerge, and I became a witness to all of those.
I composed my environmental autoethnography project on this issue that I’m very familiar with: the land reclamation in my hometown. I chose this project for the submission draft because I have been learning more (compared to the previous environmental inquiry project) throughout the entire writing process. As a complete newbie to autoethnography, I started everything from scratch and learned a lot as I moved forward. It has been a great challenge for me in my writing experience, while at the same time, I can’t resist the charm of planning, learning, and revising. I was fulfilled with a sense of accomplishment after I finished the final draft.
One More Thing
I included the blog post from Week 2 just for fun. It’s my observation on an environmental issue other than the two topics for the two major projects this quarter: the excessive use of plastic bags and wrappings.