Exercise 1.1
Last semester, I wrote a paper for IDIS 101 that was supposed to be an investigation of an on-campus service. I decided to write my paper on the Simulation and Digital Entertainment program. I acquired my sources from the required text, Internet, and interview source, and commenced to write my paper. Prof. Johnson had told us to have fun with it and make it like a narrative. So, I went ahead and had a lot of fun with it. I made it into this quest for knowledge that I had undertaken to find out what exactly the SDE program was all about, making my interview with Sandy Lin, the advisor for the program, into a sort of police interrogation, my 20 minute Internet search into an all-night research for information on the subject, and my final discovery of a course description book into a discovery that resolved my burning questions on the subject. I found out that I really enjoyed expanding the relatively short research phase of the project and describing minute parts of my experience with a variety of adjectives. I also found out that I really enjoy writing narrative essays, despite my uneasiness about writing them. I wrote it fluently from my mind too, I didn't really stop to worry about grammar or spelling and did a few experimental twists of my words; lots of fragments and onomatopoeic expressions. And it paid off for me. Despite my professors disbelief of Sandy Lin's refusal to offer information beyond what was already released in documents that can be found at UB Major luncheons, she seemed to understand what I was writing about and approved of it. It was a surprisingly revealing project for me.
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