Production Report 14A

I am sick and barely have a voice (not that it matters because the marching band won't shut up in the background anyway) so I'm just posting my basic script and the corresponding outline item.

Rough Draft

The attitude with which you approach this class matters-- it is not some “dumb gen ed." Even if you are the most efficient student the University of Arizona has ever seen (which is unlikely), you will be spending at least six hours per week on this class alone.

If you go into the class thinking it’s some “dumb gen ed” you will be bitter, produce lower quality work, and probably spend longer on the assignments than necessary. 

When I signed up for this class it was just one of a few necessary steps on my path to graduating in two and a half years. Twenty credits seemed doable, especially because two of them were “just gen eds.” 

I spent as much time complaining about the blog posts as I spent writing them and didn’t even realize I wasn’t being productive the entire time. I was sick of my instructor thinking that this class should be my biggest priority because the course number started with a measly number one.

This class doesn’t have to be your biggest priority, but you have to make time for it. And that doesn’t mean just on Sundays. 

A great way to combat this mindset is to find passion in every assignment. I lost steam in the second project. I was writing a standard (AKA boring) college essay about the rhetorical tools used in other people’s boring essays. I switched up my genre examples to include newly developing internet genres-- the refugee experience simulation and the interactive news map. I was able to root my arguments in psychology and discuss colors and graphics. 

This was a small change, but because of it I was interested in my work again. Once I switched examples, the time I spent on the project went from dragging on to flying by.

1. Attitude matters
1. Huge time commitment-- don't think of it as a dumb gen-ed
2. My credit overload that seemed manageable because some of the classes were gen-eds
3. Bad mindset: blaming instructor for thinking this class should be first priority
4. This class doesn’t have to be your biggest priority, but you have to make time for it. And that doesn’t mean just on Sundays.
5. A great way to combat this mindset is to find passion in every assignment
6. Losing steam on project 2 because of boring essayse
7. Benefits of switching to internet based genres AKA something I was interested in
8. Mold to assignment to you-- small changes matter