January 20th

This past week, I learned a great deal from conducting an interview with Christina D'Elia, my fiance' and MAPC peer. I thought of my learning style as being straightforward, orderly and preferred to have things laid out in an outline-type format, but after hearing her thoughts, I can see how I am much more of an active learner -that I need to practice or complete a trial run of things to learn. This is as true inside the classroom as it is for putting a bookshelf together. I was also surprised to find that she thought of me as having a structured composition process and that this helps my creativity and flexibility with writing in different genres and for different audiences. It was very interesting to get an outsider's perspective on this.