Today’s blog post is going to be about me reflecting on the past 8 weeks that I have been in English Composition I. Before I started writing this midterm piece I was given a couple of links to help me be a better writer. First, I wanted to brush up on my reflective writing so I watched a video about Reflective Writing and after feeling like it didn’t help that much I read the next article I was given called Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection. Not too long after I realized I had to make either a video or a essay. I didn’t exactly know how to go about making a vlog and posting it so I read all the Articles that he had given us on his website. I chose to go through all of them starting with What is a Vlog? Then went to the rest How to Upload a Video to YouTube, How to Upload a Video to YouTube From your Phone , How to Embed a YouTube Video on Weebly Blog, YouTube Video Editor. After watching and reading all the articles and videos I decided that I would rather write about it than make a video.
I was sitting at my desk for about 4 hours or so on Thursday, starting just after I got done my Intro to Business class thinking of what I had actually improved on with my writing. At first I couldn’t think of anything, but then I remembered that I have 7 blog post that I could look at and think of what I had learned in class and out of class. There was only one way to remember all of the things that were going through my mind at the time and it was to make a rough draft for my Midterm Reflection. Starting a paper in the past was never an easy task especially for me. But as I wrote each essay, week after week it would continue to get easier starting these papers. I didn’t really pick up on this until I started Composing a Past Scene: Part Two, which was week six, that I noticed that I made the introduction and first paragraph in like 20 minutes. A normal Introduction and first paragraph for me came along within about an hour consisting of me thinking for about 40 minutes then, finally feeling like I had a nice first sentence. I started to think “maybe it was because I was never a big fan of writing so I never normally did it unless it was a class essay or a research paper.” Next, I thought “it could be that I was being to picky about the way I started.” But, no matter the fact it took me this long to realize it and made me think about what else could have gone unnoticed. Every week Mr. Mangini would give us a couple articles to give the class a better understanding about that weeks blog assignment. The third week we had to Compose a Present Scene. Then, a week later he had us rewrite it and include dialogue and symbolism to make a more meaningful story with background information. Having the time to go back and look at what I had written a week later made me realize that I had to get my thoughts out before they are gone. Since then, with every blog I write I’ve included a rough draft even if I don’t really have too many ideas. After putting them down on paper it gave me the feeling that I was in control of my thought and the way I could portray them to my audience, giving them a better understanding of the story that I want to show through my words. What are my three primary intrinsic English Composition I goals for the rest of this semester?
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Sabatino
10/25/2018 10:02:28 am
I appreciate the specific details about your writing process in this class -- and how you have noticed changes in the ways you view and enact writing.
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