Writing for Designers - Learning outcomes

Writing for Designers Learning outcomes 

This past Semester we focused on enhancing our writing skills, by having multiples writing for designers classes and assignment. Being a designer is not only about designing artworks, manipulating digital softwares... It is also about making the public opinion understand your work, describing it and knowing how to sale you pieces.

1.Demonstrate key writing skills in storytelling:

This was the first major skill that served as a basis to all what came next. I learned in this part how to write a narrative story with pace, whichs, as you no doubt know, the speed at which the story moves(Intro-->Content-->Climax-->Outro) . which taught me how to build a story and what is the different pronoun used for First,Second and Third person speech. This has allowed me to easily understand and learn what is coming next.

2.Undertake mind mapping exercise to formulate ideas:

In this one, we had to write a short story, using 20 words preselected. thanks to this assignment i learned how to organize my work, mind plane the steps i have to follow in order to formulate useful ideas. I had some problems at the starts about it, how can i write a coherent story with 20 words preselected but after listening the lecturer's explanations and following the steps he taught us, i finally mastered it and wrote with success the final story.

3.Work effectively and constructively in a group to discuss, debate and share ideas:

This task was about watching the film "THE WOMEN IN BLACK" and everybody had to choose his preferred scene, draw a sketch of it and share our thoughts and opinions in the Photo Studio. During this task i learned to listen to others opinions and idea, and that everyones voice matters and can help you improving your understanding of the subject by opening for you new points of view of the subject. But sharing your point of view is as important, since i could help others to develop their ideas by giving them my opinions.

4.Compile an online journal while critically evaluates and reflects the practice:

In this task, i had a really hard time to fully understand it, as it was for the majority in the class. We had to read scholarly journals and popular magazines, and deduct the differences between the two, at first it was really hard but after putting my mind to it i finally arrived to distinguish between the two and write the point of differences. 

5.Present a body of writing which demonstrates a clear and concise understanding of key concepts :

The main goal of this semester was polishing our writing skills and learning new ones. i learned how to properly write a narrative essay (story telling), with a good pace writing, creating characters that interact with each other and with the story flow,formulate ideas by organizing my thoughts and undertaking mind mapping exercises, to discuss my opinion and share it with other in order to improve my final idea. we also learned what's the difference between a journal and an article.

I feel a noticeable improvement in my English writing skills, i am more in ease when i am talking to my friend, discussing with them or just writing a message, even when i am reading a simple article in a people Magazine or an article in a Political revue.