Please answer both of the following with substantial, thorough, thoughtful, well-revised, multi-paragraph pieces of writing that feature direct evidence, specific examples, and a high degree of honest self-reflection.
- Explain one or more specific aspects of your writing that have improved this year. In this explanation, you must directly refer to at least two specific pieces of writing that you produced for this class. You may use any assignment, project, writing sample, draft, blog entry, etc. You should discuss the writing tips & strategies we studied, the processes & methods we used, the critiques & drafts we employed and the products we created (feel free to use these specific key terms to keep your reflection focused).
- Describe one specific goal for your future writing. Your explanation of your goal(s) must include some or all of the following: writing samples from this year, writing strategies you have used in the past, writing strategies or techniques you would like to develop, examples from authors you respect, etc.
This blog post is due at 11:59:59 pm on Wednesday, June 16. Everyone will get up to 20/20 for thorough, careful writing.
One aspect of my writing that has improved this year would have to be the quality of improvement from draft to draft to the eventual final product. I'm not very good at writing first drafts or drafts at all, but I am learning to use the tip of quantity first and then going back through and revising to improve quality.
My Ampersand article somewhat depicts my improvement towards this new writing style. I typically wrote a first draft to meet the bare minimum, then revised that. But in later drafts, I used the tip to narrow down unnecessary portions.
A goal for my future writing would just to simply create visual language like Kurt Vonnegut. He created visual language in Slaughterhouse Five to his advantage to make you feel as if you were actually there with Billy Pilgrim. I keep thinking about Kurt explaining his trip with his little girls, and the language he used to describe the journey and the things they saw. He used perfect language to make it sound as if a child were narrating. I wish to use this technique if I choose to write as a career.
One aspect of my writing that has improved this year would have to be the quality of improvement from draft to draft to the eventual final product. I'm not very good at writing first drafts or drafts at all, but I am learning to use the tip of quantity first and then going back through and revising to improve quality.
My Ampersand article somewhat depicts my improvement towards this new writing style. I typically wrote a first draft to meet the bare minimum, then revised that. But in later drafts, I used the tip to narrow down unnecessary portions.
A goal for my future writing would just to simply create visual language like Kurt Vonnegut. He created visual language in Slaughterhouse Five to his advantage to make you feel as if you were actually there with Billy Pilgrim. I keep thinking about Kurt explaining his trip with his little girls, and the language he used to describe the journey and the things they saw. He used perfect language to make it sound as if a child were narrating. I wish to use this technique if I choose to write as a career.
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