ally's+final+project+reflections

Well, here I am writing my final reflection!

For the final paper we had to write about viewing video games as texts,seeing if we should anaylze the game and figuring out different meangings behind it. The second part was tying in a culutre aspect to it from any of the discussions we did in class-such as gender, violence, sexuality etc.

I thought this would be hard because I had no idea what I would write about. Then after we had a discussion on Friday about should me make contrasts between the game and the creator of the game, I knew I could do it. It was sort of hard researching video games biographies, since they always came from wikipedia and that is not a reliable source. However, my professor knows alot about video games so he was able to help me find really good articles.

Since this paper has alot of questions to answer, I started out just prewriting in microsoft word. I took the prompt and just wrote what I thought about video games and that we should view them as texts. The next day I reseached alot and was able to piece my prewriting into the paper; i pulled different examples where celeberties and politicans discussed their opinions and how that influences people to like them or not. All I have left is tying it back to video games and I hope that goes smoothly, I am kind of nervous about that.

Throughtout this whole semester, I do not see my writing process has changed. I still go to the computer, research and just start writing. I have enjoyed different writing aspects and types of writing this semester and reflecting.

I hope you all enjoyed reading :)