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Writing Prompt 10
Writing Prompt 10
Cameron Harrison
Professor Raymond
UWRT-1104
19 November 2019
Starting off my year in the UWRT-1104 class was very challenging for a few aspects. I
personally did not know much about my family past three generations. I also did not know the
meaning of the majority of our “SLO’S” including Critical Reflection. My initial focus of this
project was simply to research more about my family. However, the inquiry portion of the
multimodal genealogy project really changed my initial focus. My goal was to find out more
about my family’s military history. I know the generations before me are rich in military history
in which I can exploit for my genealogy project. This lead me to research so much about my
grandfather's deployment I forgot it was a genealogy project and not a history project. I also
found out that my grandfather Daryl reached the Rank of Lieutenant! This research puts my
grandfather in a new light, I've never seen him in. Another aspect that was changed during the
project was the amount of research I have done. I would consider myself lazier than one that gets
things done. This project truly surprised me on how much research and thought I was putting
into the genealogy project. I also utilized critical reflection to really produce the best work I
possibly could. Critical reflection allows one to take a step back and revise their work. I first
used Critical Reflection when I worked on the out of class group assignment. I used this
knowledge I had gained on Critical Reflection and transferred it to my visual portion of the
multimodal genealogy project. Rehearsing the presentation allowed myself to identify the flaws
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and problems the presentation had. All in all, this multimodal genealogy project has truly been
eye opening on how much it changed my outlook on not just research but my entire family.