My Writing Craft Analysis

The writing of my college essay was quite a process. Normally for me writing comes rather easy, I do not struggle putting my ideas on paper. At first I thought that this essay would be simple to do and not be very stressful. It turned out to be quite the opposite in fact, just brainstorming was a struggle for me. It was difficult for me to think about my life and how it is special. To me, the events that have shaped me do not seem that relevant, at 18 I had never really payed much attention to how certain things affected me, I just lived my life. eventually , with the help of Mary, I came to the realization that having my summer taken away from me due to a broken foot had really changed my life philosophy, it truly changed who I was and my outlook on life.

I grew up in a extremely small town outside of Birmingham, and the high school I went to is not known for its academia. If I recall right, my high school english classes assigned only 1-2 papers a year, so writing 4-5 in a semester was a completely new adventure for me. I learned many things in this course that greatly helped me improve my writing. My writing overall improved in style, flow, and basic fundamental writing thought processes, which is all the areas that are hard to learn. I started to see my style and flow had grown bland and very fact based instead of grabbing the attention of the readers. Now that I understand where my writing needs improvement, I can start focusing on those areas and fixing my papers.

Being a perpetually anxious person, I tend to be particular in my daily life. I need to clean my room and make my bed before I leave. I must sleep at 9:00pm every night. I have to wake up at 6:00am every morning. I need to do a certain thing at a specific time, or it throws me off. Writing allows me to be messy. It allows me to vomit words and struggle to write a coherent sentence before finally, my thoughts are realized onto the paper. My process is wonderfully disorganized. It is starting to write, eventually erasing everything I've written, starting all over again, realizing that I was straying from my point, and retyping it a second time. My process is becoming frustrated at the pretentious introduction. It's wanting to smash my computer

The most difficult part as a writer just beginning is the use of proper grammar, and punctuation. Grammar can affect the entire essay if it's not used correctly. Improving my critical thinking will enhance my writing. The writing process isn't always the easiest thing to accomplish. Drawing attention to the essay is important. There are several ways to drawing attention, and accomplishing a overall good essay.

As a writer in English 102 I learned different styles and techniques when writing an essay. Even though having to transition from high school to college was really difficult to comprehend. Especially, the learning styles that I was given such as hegemony, ideology and other cultural studies that I wasn’t familiarized with. However, I take my time off and fully understand what these concepts really mean. I started to read the big red book and take notes about cultural studies in class. Hegemony and ideology started to make sense. I can understand how our society shapes these cultural studies. Especially, wealth because this power can truly change people. That is why power is only meant for certain people, it also makes sense that if every individual really want power our society would corrupt. Imagine everyone in our society having lavage lifestyles. The economy will go downhill because who needs a job when you have lots of money. Also, they don’t even want to bother the things concerning our economy and/ or our environment. It is why applying cultural studies outside the classroom can help understand the importance of power. The example I mention also creates

One of the areas in which we must all strive to improve to the best of our abilities is the potential to effectively articulate thoughts and ideas into our writing pieces. Improving my writing capability has been one of the most gratifying accomplishment because I have always been one to feel insecure about my assets as a writer. This insecurity spawns from self-awareness and knowing that writing can place you in a vulnerable state, as you allow others to perceive you personal notions and mental process. Some the most intimidating experience as a writer was having to write three essays within a short period of time because this type of task can demonstrate one’s genuine ability to both write coherently and rapidly. Due to these timed write,

1. Writing Experiences: What have been your academic writing experiences? What writing challenges have you faced? Why have they been challenges? How did you overcome these challenges?

Throughout my high school career, I've learned a few things about myself and how I write formal and informal literature. one of the things I've learned was that, I write better papers when I have a strict guideline on how the paper should be formatted. A big issue I face when writing a paper without guidelines is, when I begin to type the essay, i have no structure to build off of. Being that structure is very important to me, another element that I must account for before starting an assignment is an outline. The outline assures me that I will not experience writers block while i’m in the stages of crafting my first draft. when it comes to different forms of writing, one particularly area I struggle in is analysis essays. the reason

This activity was a very fair assessment of me. Math has always been my strongest suit and it showed through the report as well. The writing portion showed that there is somethings that I do need to work on. I always use “http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader “ when writing papers and even these discussion board posts. It helps me immensely with my writing mechanics and becoming a better writer.

From the second I was learning to write simple words in kindergarten to the hours spent writing essays in college I have always strived toward becoming a “good writer”. What can make a successful writer is the proper understanding and usage of rhetoric, knowing your audience, and engaging in critical analysis. Yet each time I was finally starting to get better at articulating my point of view or finally mastering the new writing style in my classes, the definition of good writing changed. Each grade level had a new definition of what good writing entailed and each time I had something new to learn. In elementary the early definitions of good writing was writing simple sentences to formatting paragraphs. While in middle school you started to

In my process of writing, I needed a lot of creativity, energy and time to form a final draft of my essays. That includes drafting, revising, editing all the way to rewriting until I feel confident enough to turn in my final piece. In Merritt Writing PLO, process is described as, "Demonstrate thorough engagement with the iterative processes of reading, writing, and speaking". I have had the opportunity to involving with activities such as reading articles, writing different genre of essays, conference feedback, revision reflection as well as completing multiple journal articles. Before I begin my essay, we always have a brainstorm as a class on possible topics we could write on our essays. The first essay was about narrative, I didn’t have conference with professor but I did get some brainstorming ideas on what I want to write

You have to struggle in order to perform better. In my opinion, i am a little creative and critical in my writing, i guess you could call it creatively critical or critically creative. some writing habits i have are my usage of detail and description. Sometimes i may over describe something,adding too many details, and some of them may become a little redundant. Another habit would be comparing one thing to another thing using similes or metaphors. I think that the comparisons help to paint a picture in the mind of whoever reads my writing so they can better understand it. I have always been a thinker .Writing had always been one of my strengths, but it was still challenging .

The rubric for blogs/journals has four critical elements. The first is critical thinking and reflections. This refers to being able to support your claim with either personal experience, learning, or logical thought. The second critical element is Integration and Application which means that you are able to show you understand the module content and gave careful consideration while answering the topic. Voice is the next critical element and it means that you are able to express yourself and reach your audience in an appropriate writing style. Writing is the last critical element and it means that your paper is free of grammar and spelling errors.

As any artist does in their particular work of art, in order to become a great writer, you must be completely invested in what you are creating. Sentences must flow as if brush strokes, words must compile to create cohesive, clear, and complex thoughts as if colors. Writing is just as much of an art as painting, sculpting, or drama. Just like in writing, every artist has a particular style- the way the artist uses his brush, colors, canvas, tools- In writing a style can be shown by the writers distinct use of different sentence structures, distinct types of vocabulary, or other components that distinguish one writer from another. For myself, a great contributor into my style of writing was developed from a sense of humor obtained from a creative

This chapter does not only focus on types of assistive technologies that support writing but it also goes into great depths in regards to many different aspects of writing that, on their own or together, can be frustrating for students. The text outlines 3 different elements of writing and these are the task environment, long-term memory and the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, editing and publishing.)