Reflection

The development of this essay is a rather interesting experience in the sense that I’ve never really thought about “my community.” As stated in the essay,  it was pretty hard to try to come up with an idea or concept of a community in which I belong. Overall, it was different. I contemplated back and forth about what similarities all my friendships had in common, or in other words, how I meet or become friends with people.  The two common denominators that were present when meeting and talking to people with either sports or video games,  and I felt the most connection with video games because I was actually spending time together with people longera nd also never really played sports growing up. So the Xbox virtual world was the place where I identified my community and my upbringing.  When it came to the development of this essay, the essay was written in one shot because I wanted an unfiltered, authentic voice of thought when writing the paper.  I wanted to say what I felt about the gaming community and how I thought about people. I wanted to share my experience, and I felt like doing all that in one take and one night was the best situation for me in regard to sharing my experience as a whole.  I love how authentic and unfiltered it is when it comes to sharing my experience in the essay, but because it was written in one shot, there are definitely some revisions that needed to be made from a grammatical and cohesion standpoint. I talked about the Good, the bad, and the ugly when it came to the gaming community,y and I wanted the reader to acknowledge the fact that a community is present and the community is very real and isn’t just people just wasting their time in the virtual Abyss. They would improve the balance between conscious grammatical improvement and entering a flow state of writing, in this case, typing it out. I learned a few things from the peer feedback, not necessarily what led to the development of the essay,y but other people’s stories and experiences, and a very common thing is the feeling of neglect or feeling left out of their communities.  I would say relate to that because I feel like I’ve always kind of been neglected regarding certain communities or friend groups, Etc. What I learned from the peer Group reviews is to really listen to other people’s stories, so that way you’re able to build a better connection with people in the classroom.  especially since I’m going to be there with them throughout this journey for the next three months, we must start practicing what we preach in terms of building a community in our classroom with 20 to 25 people, so we’re able to extrapolate that to our own lives and how we’re able to talk to people on a day-by-day basis.