Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Writing Moments In College

There have been many writhing moments in my academic career up through college that has influenced my writing. But, I want to talk about some recent experiences that have happen to me. First one would be last semester it was towards the end of the semester I think it was my last paper. So, I wanted to show Stephanie how far I had come. So, I wrote the first draft and as usual it was a complete failure so it kind of got me down. When I got home to revise it I looked at it and I decided that I was going to rewrite the whole thing because there was so much wrong with it. Many people don’t think of that because they do not want to take the time of rewriting the whole thing. The reason it was such a help to me was because I knew what she didn’t want and I was able to take that and make something completely new and improved. Now many may think that is just crazy and they don’t want to try it. But, if your draft was as bad as mine you will probably have to work really hard on figuring out what to do and rearrange things, in all that time you will spend you could just type a whole new paper like I did. That was one experience that helped me become a better writer. Now, I will talk about one more that has helped me that would be my blog. Do to these blogs I have been able to realize what kind of writer I am as well as my interests. It has showed me some stuff I need to work on and what has helped me. For example, I learned that I needed to work on sensory detail by explaining how people react to my papers. Therefore, I encourage people to take their blogs seriously so they maybe also will be able to figure out what works best for them and what doesn’t work.

2 comments:

  1. This post was inspirational to me, Kyle. I hope others in the class are encouraged as well.

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  2. I'm glad you said that. Really, I have been in the position of: do I want to rewrite this? Or just spend hours poking around trying to fix it? I think that is so awesome that you were able to do that with your paper. Taking the time to re-do something helps in the learning process. It really takes guts to completely scratch something and start over. You have more guts than I do :) Nice job.

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