15) Optional Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. In this blog post I will be discussing how using blog posts during this class has impacted me. When this class first start and I learned that all of our work was going to be posted on our websites for everyone to see I was a little uncomfortable with the idea. I was intimidated by the thought that anyone in my class would be able to see my writing, mostly because I don't believe I'm the best writer. I was very hesitant while writing my first few blogs and I was very unsure about my outcome. Throughout the semester, I have become more comfortable posting blogs and my drafts for the formal assignments. Writing each post has become easier because I felt better about my results. I like that I can receive feedback from my peers about the ideas that I have shared here. It's also nice to see my classmate's work as well because it interesting to hear others opinions or to see how they interpreted the assignment for the blog post. I have never created a website before so it was very interesting to learn how. I have always been used to writing papers, printing them out and then handing them in for a grade in all of my other english classes so blogging has been a huge change for me. I definitely enjoy blogging more because it allows me to share my thoughts as well as hear feedback and suggestions for my work. Posting each draft of my formal assignments has also been very useful in writing my paper. I like that I'm able to look back at each of my drafts and see how my work has progressed. During this course we have talked a lot about the process of writing. The process is working towards a goal and it is a continuing thing that occurs. Working through a website was very beneficial because it allowed us to use the process of writing and work towards accomplishing a good paper. This class has taught me that the process of writing is very important. It's okay to go back and revise your work as many times as you want or need. Your first draft is not going to be perfect and you should continue to strive to reach the highest level that you can. I have learned a lot about writing in this class and believe that I will continue to improve as a writer.
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12) Formal Assignment #2. A Reflection. [Categories: Reflection]: Please complete the following:
The second formal assignment that we wrote in this class was a research paper. The rhetorical mode for this paper is argumentation and the genre is MLA research paper.
While writing this paper, at first I did my research and took a break before I began the paper. I think this was helpful because it gave me time to think about the research and how it could be useful for my paper. I wrote this paper while I was in my room, allowing me to focus on what I was writing. I decided to write about starting free college tuition in the US for undergraduate students because I think the topic is very important and something that the US should consider to start sometime in the future. I believe this was a good choice because I would the topic interesting and I enjoyed doing research on this topic. In the process of writing this paper I started with doing my research and then I started my paper later on. I realized that I needed to do more research to further prove my point. I still believe I can change things and add more to make my argument stronger. 11) Formal Assignment #1. A Reflection [Categories: Reflection]: Please complete the following:
The first formal assignment that I wrote was the fan-fiction. The rhetorical mode for this piece was a narration because it tells the story about "The Misfits" life before the story takes place. The genre of this paper was fan-fiction.
I decided to writing this paper when I was in my room mostly. This was a good approach for me because it allowed me to concentrate and create good ideas/plot for the story. While writing this assignment I took breaks and would come back to it after a while. It was helpful to work this way because it gave me time to step away and come back allowing for to look at my work differently. I chose to write about this topic because while writing my blog post using fan-fiction, I found fan-fiction to be entertaining and enjoyed writing them. Writing a fan-fiction allowed to be creative in my decisions and my approach to the story. I decided to write about "The Misfits" live that occurred before the story takes place because while reading "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" I was curious about how "The Misfit" ended up in the place he was then. While writing the fan-fiction, at first I found it difficult trying to create a storyline but when I came up with my idea the rest of the story just flowed. Looking back on my paper, I saw things that could be changed to make the paper better and decided to write another draft. Now that when I look at it, I still believe that there is things that could be changed to help make the paper stronger. |
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