For this blog post, I read and watched these two links, Reflective Writing and Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection. In this blog post, I will reflect on my experience in this class so far and some of my writing process. I will also talk about my intrinsic goals for the rest of this semester.
When I first entered this class, I thought we were going to have to write lots of essays and read boring books. This class is the complete opposite. When Dr. Mangini said we were going to write blogs, I was nervous at first since it was out of my comfort zone. The first writing blog post was a little rough, but throughout the semester, I used the readings to my advantage. They helped me along with my writing process. As the the blog posts went on, I liked writing my stories in different tenses. I was so used to always writing my stories in past tense so I liked changing it up. Overall, my favorite blog post that I have composed would probably be Composing A Present Scene With Dialogue and Symbolism. To prepare me for this blog post, as a class, we read Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. This reading was one of my favorites. As we were reading as a class, we annotated the the story. The discussion after we read the piece really opened my eyes to how deep his writing was. The underlying subtext, motifs, and symbolism helped me learn how much more developed my writing can be by adding these things. This story helped me with my writing process after reading this story. As I was writing new blog posts, I knew to look for possible places to add themes or motifs in my writing. For the blog, Composing a Present Scene, I chose a topic that was emotional to me about my dad’s alcoholism. I knew that I could further develop this story and use it for my narrative project. I didn’t feel comfortable reading aloud this story so Dr. Mangini read it to the class. This was very helpful for me to listen to my writing. I was able to hear some things I wanted to change/fix and receive feedback from the class. A classmate took notes for advice and feedback on my story which helped me improve some parts in my narrative. A goal I would like to put more in place is to do my blog posts ahead of time rather than waiting until last minute. I really struggle with procrastination and just getting the work started. Another goal is revising my work. After the work is due and I get blog comments/feedback, I would like to revise my work rather than just doing borderline work. My last goal is to really push for the grade I want. I think by putting my goals in place and putting in my complete effort that I could achieve the grade I desire.
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In this blog post, I read What is a Found Poem?, Sample Found Poem, and Visual Examples of Found Poems. I chose the "cut-up" method to create my found poem where I made a negative decision to get in the car with my dad who was under the influence of alcohol.
“The Car Ride” My dad got home from work. “Taylor let’s go.” Overpowering smell of beer entered my nose, I was angered. Driving down the curvy road, Our bodies jerked left and right. “Dad pull over!” He sped into an empty bar parking lot. My Siblings stared back at me in complete fear, crying. “Get out of the car.” I refused, “ Dad please just take us home” The tires crunched over a broken glass bottle, We rolled out of the empty bar parking lot. The dense clouds passed by, Tears falling from my eyes. Reflection
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