Does fandom have positive influence?
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saifaiI'm entirely fascinated by the whole concept of working in teams. I just came back from a meeting with my learning team for school, and came back with some insights. We all discussed the papers we just got back and compared our results.
As it turns out, I scored about 15 percent higher than they did. Why? Well I followed the examples given in class for one. For another thing though, I think learning for myself and from others in the fandom about writing a story has helped me. I wrote this paper in very much the same style that I do for my stories and it had a positive result on my results.
I don't know if it's specifically fandom, or that I have more experience in writing than they do. As a result though, my research methods have contributed a great amount. I tend to make notes and outlines of what I read, at least when researching, so that I can have a better visual from which to understand the material. I'm a visual learner, so it's just easiest for me. I brought them my notes, and it turned out to be the model we're going to use for our final paper and presentation. They were impressed. I didn't know what to say, I just shrugged and said it's just how I do things.
For the final project then, I'll write the paper and pull together the examples. They'll put together the powerpoint presentation and visual models to go with it. They were concerned that they weren't doing enough. I simply said, "I see this as a great payoff for me. I don't want to have anything to do with the presentation or standing in front of that group of our peers. So, I'll write the paper if y'all will present it to the class." They shrugged and thought that was agreeable.
As I was driving home though, I began to see comparisons to how I've dealt with my research and writing assignments now as compared to how I did it ten years ago through my first stint in college. Experience over the past ten years has helped I'm sure, but I really do think that my involvement with fandom has contributed. I set out to learn more about writing stories. It's not that I'm a great writer or anything, but just the process of exploring different ways of going about it and learning from others has helped me to improve the way I do things when it comes to non-fictional writing and research.
Does that make any sense? Or am I just blowing smoke here?
As it turns out, I scored about 15 percent higher than they did. Why? Well I followed the examples given in class for one. For another thing though, I think learning for myself and from others in the fandom about writing a story has helped me. I wrote this paper in very much the same style that I do for my stories and it had a positive result on my results.
I don't know if it's specifically fandom, or that I have more experience in writing than they do. As a result though, my research methods have contributed a great amount. I tend to make notes and outlines of what I read, at least when researching, so that I can have a better visual from which to understand the material. I'm a visual learner, so it's just easiest for me. I brought them my notes, and it turned out to be the model we're going to use for our final paper and presentation. They were impressed. I didn't know what to say, I just shrugged and said it's just how I do things.
For the final project then, I'll write the paper and pull together the examples. They'll put together the powerpoint presentation and visual models to go with it. They were concerned that they weren't doing enough. I simply said, "I see this as a great payoff for me. I don't want to have anything to do with the presentation or standing in front of that group of our peers. So, I'll write the paper if y'all will present it to the class." They shrugged and thought that was agreeable.
As I was driving home though, I began to see comparisons to how I've dealt with my research and writing assignments now as compared to how I did it ten years ago through my first stint in college. Experience over the past ten years has helped I'm sure, but I really do think that my involvement with fandom has contributed. I set out to learn more about writing stories. It's not that I'm a great writer or anything, but just the process of exploring different ways of going about it and learning from others has helped me to improve the way I do things when it comes to non-fictional writing and research.
Does that make any sense? Or am I just blowing smoke here?
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Date: 2005-07-14 01:04 am (UTC)Kudos to you for doing so well.
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Date: 2005-07-17 04:15 am (UTC)I think that's the difference. Adding that extra something that helps it flow better, much like you would in a traditional story format.
:)