Memorandum Reflection

After completing my memorandum on the teaching of writing, I realized that I had a completely different perspective of what exactly a memorandum was. I thought that they were extremely short, brief, and to the point. I had no idea that some memos are multiple pages long. At first, I was extremely intimidated by the assignment. I had never wrote a memo that long before. I did not even really know how to write a memo. Once I realized how to write it and I actually started doing it, it came easier than I had imagined. I leared a lot by looking at the sample memo beforehand. I also was really happy that we got to bring a rough draft to class and talk about them in our groups. That helped me so much. I was able to ask questions and fix the problems I was having. After talking to my group about the memos, I really understood much better. I was able to go home and write my memo without any problems. I am happy that we had this assignment because this is something that I might have to do one day. I am glad that I learned how to do this now instead of later.
I learned a lot from the articles that we had to read and incorporate ideas from in the the memo. I learned writing approaches that I will definitely use as a future teacher. The articles really opened my eyes to how teaching writing differently affects how the students write. I have learned so much about effective teaching of writing approaches and I have learned some approaches the generally do not work so well. I will definitely implement some of the appropriate approaches into my classroom one day.

Things that I think could be different if this were done again would be to actually do the memorandum in groups or only write about the articles we read. I usually do not like groups work, but I felt like the hardest part of the memo was writing about topics in articles that I did not read. Even though I read my group members bibliographies, it is still not the same as actually reading the articles. It would have been alittle easier if we only wrote the memo on the articles that we read.
Something that I really liked about the project was that we were able to bring in a rough draft and have our group members go over it. That was extremely beneficial to me. I was able to work out my issues after I brought in the rough draft and asked my group for help.
This is a project that I am glad I participated in because I will actually have to use all of the components of this project in real situations one day.