The final week has come. We are doing the final tweaks - wrapping up our portfolios and digital stories, reflecting, and expressing final thoughts about the journey. We will be graduating with a Master of Arts Degree in Professional Writing from New England College as of March 1, 2015.
Here are my final thoughts:
Coming to the end of this
journey is bittersweet. Sweet in the rich accomplishments from the acquired
knowledge; yet sprinkled with a painful awareness that the conversation and
fruitful collaboration will fade. I did not find my voice in the written word
as I travelled through
the Professional Writing program at New England College, but I recast, revised,
and polished it. Still I would not say that I am sated as I take the final
steps of this trek, rather I am fortified by the realization that I am a better
writer ready for more.
Initiating, expanding, and
finalizing (at least for now) both my academic and marketing portfolios caused
me to reflect on the ideas, theories, and concepts that I have mastered on this
quest of discovery. While I examined all that I have created over the last 18
months in my academic portfolio, I began to perceive what it means outside of
the educational arena. Subsequently I opened my marketing portfolio for perusal
and I ascertained that it complimented the other one, solidifying the real-world
value of all I have learned. The future will be full of the written word for me.
I am a writer
. . . and a
writer’s work is never done . . .
so I will reiterate one of the popular words in
class – onward!
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