For my midterm reflection blog post, I wrote about my experience in this class using the text Reflective Writing and Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection to help me do so. Below, I included specific assignments, readings and processes that helped me learn and grow in the class. I focus on my writerly identity and even my blogging. I chose to not film a reflection video because I am not yet comfortable talking in front of a camera. This reflective observation is about my thoughts on how I have done in the class and how I feel I can become a better writer.
My experience in this English Composition I course has been very beneficial in teaching me how to be a better writer. Writing the blog post every week, especially the blog posts writing about different scenes has helped me compose my Narrative Project. I was also taught about literary analysis and it has helped me understand that I must provide context which is background information that frames the text along with subtext which is the theme or the main idea of the story, symbols, motifs, essentially what is left unsaid in the story. Don Murray’s “Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product” allowed me to realize that writing is a form of language and communication, and that you’re active in your own choices in your writing. From his passage, I understood that in order to write something, I just have to write about anything because eventually I’ll be able to develop something from an idea. Even listening to Lulu Wang’s podcast “What You Don't Know” helped me recognize context in a story. The text in a story has to have description along with senses, symbols, and motifs. Description is an important aspect in a story because it allows the reader to relive the story with the author. The process as we discussed in class is a phrase Professor Mangini says which is “what’s D.A.T.” That phrase means that we as students have to question our writing and ask whether or not our writing has description, action, and a clear time-frame. As I continuously rewrote my narrative project, especially in the blog posts, I was able to ask myself if my story had any description and if it delivered subtext. Although I was a little nervous, I was glad that I shared my story to my class and received feedback from them. That experience really helped me develop my story and add information that a reader would want to know in my story. I needed to also add dialogue and more sensory details in order to relive the scene rather than just retelling the scene. Another aspect of the class that I find interesting is reading and writing blog comments for and from classmates on the blogs. Reading the comments on my blog allow me to grow as a writer and improve my writing. Even writing comments on classmates blogs help me with my own writing. I have never experienced a class like this course, and I like that we have more freedom like creating a blog and a website. As an artist, I am used to critique sessions so when we comment and talk about how we can improve our writing, I really appreciate it. Instead of handing in an assignment and receiving a grade, we are able to critique and learn how we can improve. My three primary intrinsic English Composition I goals for the rest of the semester is getting assignment done a few days before the due date, using more description and sensory details in my writing, and sharing my opinions and thoughts in class because sometimes I can be a little too shy to share my ideas.
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Sabatino
10/25/2018 10:10:06 am
I appreciate how this post explores how multiple assignments, texts, and personal processes of meaning-making have helped you to grow as a writer and thinker. I am glad to hear you value our approach to assessing your work and how this approach speaks to your experiences as an artist.
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Chrissie FackenthallI will use this blog to write and post weekly assignments for my English Composition I course at Delaware County Community College Archives
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