How I feel about writing.

Writing has always been one of my strong suits in school.  Though I like math and science subjects more, I always feel that I have a strong connection with writing.  Coming into this class I felt that I was a strong writer and that my skills were good enough and they didn’t need to improve too much.  However, as I went through this class I realized there was still a lot more I could learn about writing.  Both this class and the writing center helped me to learn many different things about paragraph transitions and redundancies.  I learned that I often had a lot of redundancies in my papers, and that I needed to freshen my vocabulary throughout my paper.  Going into next semester I will try to keep an open mind, because this time I know that I do not know everything about writing.  I will also continue to use my professors and the writing center as sources of information for my papers and assignments.  Hopefully I will again learn something to make myself a better and more avid writer in the future.  Writing will continually become a bigger part of my life and therefore I must improve it, even if I feel it is adequate for now.

Caitlin Rudy Thoughts on Writing

Going into the spring of 2014 I feel that I am a very prepared writer. Writing has always seemed to be a strong suit of mine. Once I get a pen and piece of paper in my hand, words always seem to flow out effortlessly from my pen to the paper. I feel like I often go into another world or something when I’m writing. I’ll finish an entire paragraph in a few minutes, go back to read it and ask myself “did I write that? Because I don’t remember writing that”. It’s such an interesting concept to think about, but it completely makes sense to me. I become so involved in what I’m writing that my mind pushes away every other thought not regarding my current paper. One thing I learned this year is that grammar is very important. Going back over the comments on my three papers, I realized that when I got points off, most of the time it was due to grammar issues and not necessarily content. I feel like this has prepared me more for English next semester because I’m going to make it a priority of mine to proof read my work. Up until now I’ve never proof read a single paper I’ve written because I feel like my initial thoughts are usually the best and that I shouldn’t over think things. While I still think this is true, making sure I use commas and that words are spelled correctly can be just as important as great ideas. This is one lesson learned this year that I will be sure to carry with me on to English 1106.

 

How I feel about writting

Before I started writing in college I was accustom to analyzing passages out of a book, or a poem. I was also use to never writing in first person, explaining many of my points from a generic point of view. My teacher in High School only ever wrote in this fashion. So I was good at that. However I learned in college how to write what I felt, how I was doing, what I saw. It was very different from what I was accustom to, but at the same time had always dreamed of writing in this style. If you read a book you do not hear the author doing an analysis of the way that the sky is blue or the character has a deeper meaning, you read about the characters feelings and how the storyline is developed. You read it for the enjoyment not to do an analysis. I enjoyed writing in college because it allowed me to open up and write like an author, verses doing an analysis.  I feel very prepared for English next semester because I am now much better rounded in my writing abilities. I also learned how to use the analysis that I learned in my high school English class for real life applications. I wish that my teacher had taught me how to analyze a movie or a picture instead of a short story of a poem. Being able to analyze what happens in a movie and in a larger case life is much more important then being able to analyze a poem.  I can not wait for English next semester.