1. If you could ask any question about anything, what would you ask?
I will ask myself: what is my life goal? What kind of people I want to be? These two questions troubled me for a long time, but I still cannot find a good answer for it.
2. If you could say anything(make a statement), what would you say?
The easiest thing in the world is make an effort for something you like; However, the hardest thing in the world is make an effort for something you do not like.
3. What advantages and disadvantage do you see to an open inquiry-based writing project?
The inquiry-based writing is kind of free-writing, student can ask any question that may be reasonably pursed , and expand this question to many aspects. Therefore student can talk about anything they are interested rather than find their interested point from a solid subject. It can inspire student's writing desire and encourage them work hard on whatever they want to talk about instead of writing for the grade. However, inquiry-based writing has some disadvantages either. In my opinion, the biggest problem is inquiry-based writing could be too broad. When student do a inquiry-based writing search, they could find a lot of specialized knowledge beyond their comprehensive ability, so that they do not know if these knowledge fit with their topic.
4. Which of Gardner's "multiple intelligences" do you thing you have the most? why?
I think the intelligence I have most that is naturalist intelligence, because I am really good at natural sciences. My favorite subject is math, I passed math test so i took Math 154 in my freshman year. Also i feel very easy to learn
physics and chemistry.
5. Do you agree with Elbow's statements? Why or why not?
I agree with Elbow's statements. First of all, open inquiry projects encourage people write their interests. People always happy to talk about something they are interested. Also a deeply search of can help people find more information about their interests and they can learn something from others who have same interests as them. The open inquiry projects provides more points around main subject to students to talk and think about, so student will like writing in this process.
6. What might stop you from really pursuing something this semester that is interesting and/or useful to you?
I usually read some economic book in my free time, But this semester is very busy for me. So probably i will give up some time to read these books instead of study my academic class.
Visual literacy to me.
My major is business so i need use visual literacy in my study. For example, most of my class are about data, and these data are present in form or sheet.The visual literacy is important to me because i have to read these forms. I hope i can practice my reading picture ability and developing it in this class. Especially in picture and text interaction part and picture describe text part, i think these two parts are useful in my future studying and working.
