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.