Parting Thoughts

I learned a lot about myself as a writer and writing in general this semester. My writing style has changed, albeit slightly, for the better. One thing I improved upon a lot was my ability to connect Point A with Point B. Prior to this class, I tended to write with reckless abandon, and wrote things as I thought of them, rather then tying the points together fluidly. Another big thing I learned was APA style, and both my love and hatred for it. I enjoy the thoroughness that comes with writing an APA style paper, making your points overtly clear, but the format and amount of effort leaves something to be desired. All in all, I am glad I took this class, and I am proud of the work and improvements I have accomplished.

Final Draft Reflection

I am very proud of how my revision piece turned out. I enjoyed the personal aspect I could put into this piece of work, and I am also glad that my piece could help ease new college students' fears upon entering college. My favorite aspect of my piece is the dramatic build up for the first day of class. The new scenery, the new environment, the thoughts and worrys all drawn out.... I swear you can almost hear my chattering teeth!

Revision Piece

I chose my first semester of college narrative as my revision piece. I chose this piece because it was the most personal writing I had done in class. Writing about personal experiences help me with imagery and allow me to have some fun with my writings, telling my story in my own personal writing tone,helping me understand myself better as a writer.

Literacy and Writing Priorities

Literacy has been an important topic in my family for as long as I can remember. Many of my earliest memories were my mom or dad reading to me and my brothers and sister. We would take turns looking over the pages, filling in words when we were cued. If we were correct, we were praised; if we weren't, we were politely asked for a second attempt. As the days went on. we all developed into very literate individuals. Writing was not as much of a priority for most of my young years, the belief being a good writer comes from good reading comprehension and studying grammatical rules in context.

Short Project Thoughts

I feel my short project was very successful. The freedom to choose a medium made my project fairly simple and fun. I picked a blog for my topic of martial arts for 2 reasons; It was a way to communicate casually with interested readers, and blogs and the internet in general are usually where uninformed readers seek information from. Knowing my subject as well as I do made it both fun and easy to do this assignment.

Short Project

I chose to do a blog for my short project on martial arts. I chose this medium in an effort to make the information easily accessible and understood for my intended audience. I have a good start on it, but I am most likely going to add a couple more specific examples of the subjects touched on. I feel elaborating and showing more evidence for each topic will make everything clearer and more credible.

APA style and learning

This essay was quite the learning experience to me as both a writer and a researcher. This was my first paper that was written in APA format, and it taught me a lot about scientific approaches towards research. The breakdown of the different sections and the quality of sources necessary for this style of research taught me how to be more analytical and critical with my information. The writing also was a big style change for me. It taught me how to be more in depth with a topic then I thought possible. When I first heard the 8-10 page length, I was shocked, but as I followed the steps and filled in my sections, I realized that it wasn't so bad once you put the effort in.