Growth Mindset: My Editing Challenges

For this week's Growth Mindset challenge, I chose to do more editing challenges. When it comes to writing my stories, I always try and go back through to double check that I am not missing anything important. As this class has continued throughout the semester, I have found a lot of editing challenges that have helped me a lot. One thing that I have found helps me a lot is to have two windows on my computer open. One screen has the original story I am reading from, and one where I am starting my own story. That way, I can re read the source and make sure I am not doing anything to similar to the original, and not too far away. A lot of the time, I will find that I have strayed too far from the original- almost to where there is nothing connecting the two! So it always helps me to re read the original and make sure I am on the right track. I have found that this helps me especially when I am doing Wednesday's reading in case my mind starts to wonder and I don't have a good enough story. So, re reading the source is great way to help you stay on track when you feel like you are wondering off too much!

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Growth Mindset: Growth in Other Classes

I chose to do a Growth Mindset option for this extra credit because I want to see how some of my classes fall into the others. So I liked the option of the Growth in Other Classes. Throughout all of my classes, there are a lot of challenges in some form when it comes to homework, exams, or extra credit. I used to not take advantage of any extra credit, simply because it was extra work. Which I realized as of recently, is not the case. This was a challenge for me in almost all of my classes because almost every class offers extra credit. So all of this happened to be the same in every class I took. After I realized that extra credit needed to be done, I started doing better in a majority of my classes. This definitely was a growth mindset for me because I needed to understand that to succeed, I had to accomplish a little extra.

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Week 8 Growth Mindset

I think my strengths with writing is that my grammar and punctuation is typically pretty good. Because my father in an English teacher, I grew up learning how to write and speak properly. Granted it is not perfect, but I try! To build up this strength definitely comes from the feedback comments; those help me more than anyone will know. It's great that everyone in the class is so respectful towards people's stories and always give positive feedback comments; even if they aren't positive comments, I have noticed that everyone will write them in the most respectful way they can.
My weaknesses are that I usually try and find the easy stories when I should be broadening my outlook on stories like the ones we are given. I really want to try reading stories that are a lot more complex than the ones I have been, so I will start to change all of this in the second half of the semester. I will need to learn to take more risks when it comes to writing, especially because there is so much time to learn how to do that.

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Growth Mindset

I have actually heard of Carol Dweck before from a previous class I took here at OU, although I never learned too much about her. I see myself in a fixed mindset for my school work in a way that, the more I work on one class, the more I learn. The classes I do not have a lot of homework, or assignments for, I do not learn as much. As obvious as that may seem, it is very hard for me to do well in some classes because of this. There are many classes where the only assignment are the exams, and because of that, I do poorly on these exams. My biggest challenges are in fact the exams for those said classes! It is very hard for me to do well on exams when I have not been doing much else in the class besides sitting in a lecture hall listening to a professor speak. I am very interested in the growth mindset and cannot wait to learn more about it! Due to these circumstances, I am currently worried about a certain class that does not have any assignment, yet two exams; a final and a midterm. So hopefully learning more about growth mindset will help me with my classes!

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