Metacognition: The Roadway to Solution

Metacognition: The Roadway to Solution

Whenever I work on an essays and projects, it always seems that the knowledge in my head is automatically transmitted on to my work with little to no effort.  Most of the times, I do not even realize how far I got onto my assignment before even realizing that I'm almost half-way done with my assignment.  However, if I think about it now, I know that there has to be steps leading into my finally solution.

As I was thinking more deeper into the idea of thought process that I take,  I realized that it actually has several steps before reaching my final work.  To start the entire process, I first understand the question and plan what and how I'm going to plan the structure of the essay and layout of the project.  After the basic planning,  I start the work by slowly revealing what my writing is going to be about.  In that process, my thought process gets much richer and I generates more sophisticated ideas.  As I move on with the project, the idea builds up and I have more things to include and say about.  This is when I think my creativity kicks in, in order to make the work that I do more elegant.  Right before finishing it,  I recheck the work several times in order to reassure myself that there is very minimal error and the work is perfect. After going through all the steps above, I finally come up with the solution that I think is logical and well- thoughtout.

After thinking this writing through, I've gained feedbacks from my thinking process and how my mind works.  As a positive feedback, I appreciate the fact that it has multiple steps in organizing and combining the thoughts before putting it down to the actual final product.  By doing this,  I have more accurate solution which will lead to more complete solution.  However, as a negative feedback,  when I have to make a decision, it will take much longer for me to decide which road that I'm going to take before I come to out with the decision because unless every conditions are met, I wouldn't be able to com up with the final solution.

Blogging Around

Blogging Around

Sammy Rhee wrote an entry about the consmerism and how the media is affecting it majorly.  I really enjoyed reading the entry since I, myself, agree to this idea.

When I was reading your entry, I was shocked by how our thinking process are similar to each other.  I also believe that the consumerism and the effect of the media are the key contributer in 21st humans to lose their uniqueness and go with the flow.  In some way, it almost sounds like a black hole that once you step into it, you cannot get out no matter what.  I'm a person that truly value uniqueness.  However, even I sometimes feel that I'm left out and feel the need to purchase things that are widely broadcasted or is being used.  I think  that the best way to avoid losing the uniqueness is to follow what you really like and constantly think about who you really are and what I truly want.  I truly enjoyed your entry.


Kimmy Durkin wrote an entry about the documentary Born into Brothels after viewing the video that changed our way of thinking forever.  This entry truly expressed the first-hand experience clearly.

Even before reading the entry, I really loved how you structured the entire writing.   It was straight forward, descriptive, and easy to follow all the things that you were thinking while you wrote the essay.  I knew that these kind of horrible places existed on Earth.  However, after watching this documentary, what I was thinking was too good of an environment compared to what was actually happening in the reality.  I think that you did a wonderful job stating the things that have been learned and what you think should be done about the situation.