1) The crayon assignment was very interesting because I haven't used a crayon since I was in first grade; I've always used colored pencils, so using a crayon irked me a bit. However, while doing the project, I felt like a little kid again, even though I'm in my 2nd year in college. I didn't have to think differently, but writing with a crayon was definitely tedious and I found that it took more effort to write legibly with a dull crayon on the verge of snapping in half.
2) Project #7- This project was arranged very neatly in essay form. The point of the writer was very comprehensive, and he stated his personal thoughts and interpretation of the poem very clearly. It was slightly on the plain side, considering that other projects had titles and creative borders, but it was still well put together.
Project #1- Very plain and standard. There were no borders or images added to the page. It was written in essay form, but it lacked creativity.
Project #18- Another plain project. It was written very neatly and clearly for someone using a crayon, but like the others, it lacked any creativity.
Project #8- This project was very sloppy. It had no arrangement or form, and it looked very rushed. The person used life examples to relate to the idea of the poem, but seldom talked about the poem itself, and it seemed like the point veered off topic.
Project #16- This project had a title with a very creative style and nice, almost elegant borders. Both factors of this project show a strong sense of self-expression, and that the person follows his/her own style. The writing itself was difficult to read though.
Project #9- This was another creative project, which looked well-arranged. The border was nice and the background texture was a nice touch. While reading, I noticed a good vocabulary and talk of sensitivity and emotion.
Project #17- This project was definitely one of the more creative and expressive projects in the class. The border consisted of flowers and stems, which added lots of color; the front and back header had the sun peeking onto the page, and it gave off a very positive vibe. The writer showed a very clear understanding and interpretation of the poem, and she expressed it in a way that was easy to understand. The major con of this project was that she did it in pencil, which totally contravened the point of the project. We were supposed to see how difficult it was to write with a crayon, and notice if that affected our writing in any way. Since #17 wrote in pencil, that's like cheating.
3) If there were a culture that only used crayons as their writing tools, I believe the writing would be much shorter, but also much more complex and selective. Writing with a crayon is very difficult and tedious. They're fragile, they dull easily, and people tend to write bigger in order to be legible and comprehensive. Considering these reasons, these people would have to be very selective with what they're writing about, in order to keep the writing to a minimum, but also to still get the point across to the reader. The use of crayons could also improve creativity while writing. There are hundreds of different color crayons, and people could utilize different colors to emphasize certain meanings of words or whole sections of their writing.
4) As noticed with the crayon project, the writing implement you use directly effects the physicality of writing. While writing with the crayon, I had to really think about what to write; the crayon makes writing difficult since it's constantly getting dull, and you have to write bigger in order to be legible. The characteristic of the implement strongly determines how a person writes. Pens and pencils are very neat and easy to write with, so people don't hold limits on what they're writing about. A person using a colored marker that smears a lot would probably take their time with the writing and write neatly so that his hand doesn't smudge the writing. These factors would also affect the process of thinking. As stated before, crayons are difficult to write with, so people would want to write less with them, and the pen has no limit since its neat and easy to write with. It would be interesting to see how people write with unusual tools, such as magic markers, paint brushes, fingers/finger-painting, and maybe even quills.
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