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In four out of the five classes I am taking this semester I have had to write at least one paper. My classes are Humanistic Traditions, Strategies in Success in College, Intro to Hospitality and Tourism and of course Composition 1. I am quite aware that I write differently for different classes. I am guilty also of putting more effort into a writing focused class over a non writing class. Yet, I pride myself in trying to giving equal effort for each paper.
ReplyDeleteFor my Literacy Narrative I definitely took more time in the writing process to get all my ideas out. In my very first draft I just spit all my ideas out and then went back and cut things out that didn’t work with my topic. I visited the writing center to help with grammar and to see if my audience could identify the theme I was trying to portray. After the first turn in of that I went to see my teacher to get feedback and then went to re write parts of the paper. Lastly, I went back to the writing center to focus my theme once more. This is the writing process that I typically do for a writing focused class, multiple drafts.
In my Humanistic’s class we had a analytical essay due between 500-700 words long while the Comp paper did not have a word or page limit. I only wrote one draft on the prompt and then I took it into my teacher to peer review it. She gave me good feedback and then I went back that day to revise and improve my paper. I didn’t go to the writing center. In this class I do have 4-5 essays through the semester but she confided in us that she was more into the thoughts and input we had on the prompt than nit picking over the small errors. This is what I usually do for classes like these. It also is really up to the type of teacher I have in the class to determine how much revisions I will do. This sounds horrible but I am guilty of it and I don’t mean it in any lazy way or spiteful intentions because I dislike the class or teacher. I simply have a priorities list on the essays I am given.
This is true for my Intro to Hospitality and Tourism and Strategies in Success in college papers. I only had one paper to complete during my Hospitality class and I wrote one draft and then promptly went to the writing center for feedback. I even went to the teacher before I wrote to ask what I needed to do for this paper. Since it was the one and only essay for this class I definitely put more effort into it. Lastly, in my Strategies in Success in College Class it is more of a common sense class and the essays my teacher assigns are more reflective. She grades them more on the content so I usually just write a draft and then go over it myself for improvements and then turn it in.
There are many factors that influence my writing process and these are examples of that. Whether it is the teacher, the type of class, or my gut feeling. Yet throughout my multiple processes and their contrasts I do have some similarities through out these different subjects, I always write more than one draft and make some sort of improvements. It could be by myself proof reading, going to the teacher for feedback, or going to the writing center for help improving. It bothers me if I don’t write more than one draft.
In my four classes this semester, I have only been required to write in my Developmental Psychology class and English composition 1. English was not my strongest subject throughout high school, although I did enjoy it very much. I enjoyed writing but sometimes struggled with expressing my ideas clearly. I did not realize the value of multiple drafts until about 11th grade. I usually would just sit down one day and brainstorm and write down all of my ideas on the paper, not realizing that I sometimes missed the main goal of the paper just because I had so many great ideas to incorporate. After gaining great sponsors in high school, I learned how to express my ideas more effectively and learn that sometimes I have to take out sections of a paper that I may have really liked. Usually, when I have a paper in a few classes at the same time, I will spend more time on the paper for the class that I am doing the worst in. In addition, in high school I usually had the most writing in my english class and I enjoyed the philosophical readings of the class so I spent more time writing about that. In college, I have not experienced a lot of writing quite yet. I have weekly writing submissions for my psych class where I have to create a virtual child and record how the child is doing by writing effectively and using information learned in class. Similarly, for the analysis of the writing contest essay, we have to use the information of rhetorical analysis learned in class into our papers. I enjoy how for both of my classes that incorporate writing, I also must incorporate ideas learned in class which is very helpful. From learning that many drafts and revisions must be made from my english classes in high school, I made sure that I revised my essay a lot for my Literacy Narrative. After my first draft, I felt confident but knew that there was always room for improvement. After receiving the corrections from a classmate, I reviewed them and realized that there were experiences in my essay that were interesting but steered away from the central point so I had to cut those parts out, which is always difficult. After that draft, I had my roommate read it for more corrections and corrected it again and then one more final time on my own. I am happy with how my essay and progress went, and hope that my hard work with revisions paid off in the end.
ReplyDeleteThe three texts that I am analyzing were in my Strategies for learning success class, History class and my English class. In my strategies for learning success class the paper I wrote was called college journey, I had to describe my transition from high school to college. In my History class the paper I had to write was about a man name John White, he was an artistic painter that was famous for his images of nature. In my Literacy class we wrote about our past literary sponsors and experiences. As I was working on these texts it caused me to do a lot more than I thought, but some papers were different than others when it came to how I came about getting the papers done. I had to outline all three papers as I prepared myself to write these papers. I researched my work for the literacy narrative and the history paper. As I was planning my literacy paper I brainstormed and formed a rough draft to start my paper. After that came about I gave my literacy review to one of my classmates and they revised it and let me know what I can do to make my paper better.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am taking four classes this semester at UCF, 3 out of the 4 of them have required me to write. Those 3 classes are English Composition 1, Intro to Hospitality Management and Encountering the Humanities. While my humanities class is online, we are required to post one discussion a week. When writing for my humanities class I don’t really get to think how I want to but rather I have to reflect on what the author of the article or book is saying and tie it back somehow into the discussion for the week. Writing for my humanities class is very easy for me, I just read the required text and do my writing based on that. For my hospitality class I have only had to write one essay but the essay I submitted is one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever had the chance to write. The topic was to write about our dream job in the hospitality industry. Since I love to talk about my future and what I want to do, writing this essay was a breeze and I throughly enjoyed it. However, for my english class, I have been required to do a lot of writing. Writing for me is a fun activity, it gives me a way to express my ideas and it gives me joy knowing that people will read what I write, no matter what it’s about. For my english class I have had to write 3 different essays so far, and each one has required me to write about something differently, which means that my writing process has had to change and adapt to fit each one. For my literacy narrative, I got to write down things that affected me growing up but for my essay contest I wasn’t able to do that. For the essay contest I had to stick strictly to the prompt I chose. While this was easy for me to do I sometimes like being able to have a free range for my creativity to flow.
ReplyDeleteCurrently, I am a Freshman taking five class at UCF. My five classes are College Algebra, American History up to 1877, Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Chemistry and English Composition One. Only two of these classes require me to write official papers. American History expects written essays to explain and analyze content we are learning and English Composition One focuses on my writing as a whole. When I write for American History, I usually do not focus on writing with fluency, or other standard English dynamics. These essays must be properly written. But they do not require opening or conclusion paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteWhen I constructed a paper about the first three successful colonies, I focused on stating and elaborating on what I knew, rather than structure or format. The topic was set for me, so I could not freely write like I did with the literacy narrative. This essay focused more on concrete information, rather than the free from shapes that have been occurring in my literacy narrative or my topic choice for the essay Contest/analysis. However, both of them are still papers that I had to development. The literacy narrative took more time than the Essay Contest/Analysis, but less time than the essay about the original American settlements. The difference in subject matter made a large difference in how I approached the paper. The literacy Narrative had a more casual tone to it, while the other essays had a more professional approach. Regardless, all of them had brainstorming processes. I had to think very different for the literacy narrative. Since the essay was about my own experiences, I had to think about my life rather than focusing set information. In the drafting process, I wrote multiple drafts of each paper, except my paper for American History only had two drafts rather than three. After the rough draft, I would run through it for errors. That process created my final draft. In the literacy narrative and contest essay/analysis, I wrote many drafts. Each draft contained multiple edits and revisions.
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The only other class besides English composition one where I have written for is resource geography. Compared to the essays in English composition, the essay for resource geography is group research which greatly changed how I went about my writing process. For the literacy narrative, and essay contest not much thought went into preparation or pre planning. The literacy narrative only required me to remember past experiences and organize a main point out of them. I approached this pretty badly instead of making an outline, I just started writing down experiences with no real sense of a main point. I only realized the main point when I had enough experiences in the essay to find it. From there I had to go back and either delete sentences or add some to bring the essay together under the main point. Looking back on it, making an outline would have saved a lot of time. The essay contest went the same way, although I did have a general idea of the main point I needed to make since the contest prompt was more concrete then the literacy narrative. In contrast to these essays, my resource geography research essay writing process took a different route. Since the group research essay is expected to be rather lengthy we did have to make an outline of a particular aspect regarding a resource my team chose. The outline went into pretty good depth, the main point of each paragraph and what would go in each paragraph was noted in the outline to make writing easier. We are also using Google Docs to allow all of us to write in the same document at once. Not everything is different regarding the research essay to the English essays however, a similarity evident between the research essay and the essay contest prompt analysis is that I have to do background research in order to understand and write the essay.
ReplyDeleteAlthough this semester I only have one class that require writings, which is Composition 1, I had wrote three essays for the class and every week I have to write a discussion to be posted on the website. When I am writing, I am aware of that my approaches to each assignment differ from one to another.
ReplyDeleteFor my literacy narrative, it took me a long time to come out with a theme. I began brainstorming and tried to recall any incidents and stories that can be used for my essay. I was focusing on the connections between each of my ideas and the fluency of the easy. My first draft basically is a more organized expression of my thoughts. After I received peer reviews I began to add more details, revise the sentence structures, and write more reflectively. I also went to the writing center for some advices so I can improve my paper even more before I turned it in.
The analysis of the writing contest definitely took me a longer time to write than the contest itself. Unlike the literacy narrative which I only need to write about myself, for this assignment I had to research and get a better understanding of the rhetorical situation I chose before I start to write. It is easy for me to write about what the prompt is asking for, however, for the analysis part I needed to figure out the purpose, exigence, impact, and the roles played by every people involved in this situation based on the information I had researched. I record my ideas and some useful key words in a separate document and then worked on composing them into sentences and paragraph.
For the weekly discussion, I did not care much about the word choices and pay less attention to my sentence structure. I just wrote down what I was thinking according to the topic. Despite of these differences, there are several strategies I used every time when I am writing papers. I like to write down key words, ideas or some great sentence first while I am brainstorming. Then I will make an outline in my head so I know what to write first and what comes next. These preparation before the actual writing helped me a lot in the process of writing.
Currently, the only class of mine that requires writing is my Enc1101 class. Since writing is not my favors, I choose my 4 other classes which need as less writing assignment as possible. And the other reason is that--I’m not a good writer. However, as I’m taking my only writing class enc1101, I could found my progress throughout the assignments that I completed.
ReplyDeleteFor example, when professor Longhany ask me to write a literacy narrative, I was thinking about to write a diary about my pass experiences. I wasn’t make a lot of critical thinking, and I just kept write down what I’ve remembered. In my second assignment, I was asked to find and analyze an essay contest, and it took me like 2 hours to find the research. I think I put a lot of thinking about some questions like: “Why does the poster posted this essay contest?” “How he can gain benefits from it?” After I completed my research and answered all of my questions, I feel a lot of sense of accomplishment. I believe the differences between my literacy narrative and my essay contest analyzes is: when I write my literacy narrative, I need to express my thinking and experiences; When I write my analyze essay, I need to change my point of view to the poster/author of the essay contest, which means I need to analyze his thinking.
Somehow, the similarity of the both writing assignments I’ve done in Enc1101 is that I have a chance to fix my mistakes from the first draft and make a better second draft. I never know the way to save my first draft and fix my mistakes in a second draft until professor Longhany taught me that. Its always a good thing to see the self-improvement right ?
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-date 10/2/2016
ReplyDeleteThe only class this semester that requires me to write is ENC 1101. 4 out of my 5 classes are either art based, drawing, or a language course. My priorities are not completely focused on writing because I have other interests and I am not very good at writing. I am better at being creative with art and creating visual pictures. Over the course of the last few writing assignments, I have been improving on how I put my ideas into words.
When it came to the literacy narrative I had an easier time brainstorming because I had so many stories and memories to pull from. The problem came when I had to begin putting those ideas into complete sentences. The essay contest essay was also easy for me because I did get to choose the prompt. Because I got to choose what I wrote about, it was a lot easier to write a concise and organized essay. The analysis essay was the most difficult for me because I had no idea how to organize my analysis into a concise essay. With all of the essays I had troubles with staying motivated and focused; my phone or writers block would distract me. For me I am good at coming up with great ideas and concepts, however I have trouble when trying to communicate those ideas in complete sentences.
Of all the classes I am taking my first semester at UCF, the one class that requires writing is this Composition 1 class. For this class we've only done 3 writings; the literacy narrative, the essay contest and the analysis of the writing contest. These 3 papers all have differences and similarities, but for the most part I used different styles of writing on all 3 so far.
ReplyDeleteFor the literacy narrative I made it more personal and used first person perspective. I cleaned up the narrative by adding in some bigger vocabulary, but not enough to lose sight of the task at hand-- to tell the story. This was also one of my longer works so far.
For the essay contest this was just a story I completely made up and was told in third person perspective. This is similar to the Literacy narrative because it is a story and follows the same kind of structure ,but is also different because obviously one was my personal story and the other was made up for an essay contest. The essay contest also didn't have very many good vocabulary words used because I didn't think that it would fit into the contest criteria.
The analysis of the essay contest is completely different than both the essay contest and the literacy narrative. Unlike narrative and the essay contest, this was in more of a rant-like and unorganized structure-- well it was organized but it was mostly just thoughts and questions that led to my thoughts on why they were holding the contest. Thinking about this now, the analysis and the other two papers have nothing in common with each other. The structure is all different, the analysis is in 2nd person perspective, the analysis wasn't nearly as long as the narrative or the essay contest either.
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ReplyDeleteNow that I think about it, I haven't written many other pieces for my other classes this semester. The only large piece I have composed is an Informative Speech for my Speech class. The research paper can be written about anything the individual desires, so I chose a topic that I was familiar with. This was similar to the process of finding a prompt for the Essay Contest, since we got to choose what topic we wanted to write about, I obviously chose a topic I was passionate and knowledgeable of. Also, these papers were alike because both were informative pieces since I was notifying the audience about each topic instead of persuading. Clearly the formation of a speech is much more difficult and complex than an essay. My speech included plenty of statistics and quotes, while my essay was mostly opinionated, containing very little facts.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the writing processes that contrasted the most were my Literacy Narrative and Rhetorical Analysis. Since the Narrative was about me, it took a long time to gather all the past events and memories and properly organize them. It was also challenging to find a central theme to flow through my paper, so before I began writing, I bullet pointed all my thoughts and organized them. As for my analysis, it was much easier to form the paper. I started by listing the rhetor, audience, contraints, and exigence. Once I established each of these, it was fairly easy to write consistently. Compared to the narrative, I often experienced minor writers block since the piece revolved around my life, making it harder to flow smoothly.
One thing I have found is consistent through out all of my writings is I always begin by writing my main thoughts down. This is very similar to a guide or outline because it aids me along in deciding how I want to form my writing piece. It has been a while since I wrote any reports or essays since I avoided that most of my senior year of high school, so beginning each writing like this has really helped me form my papers in an easier and smoother manner.
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I feel like with the literary narrative assignment there was only one way to go about answering it. You had to explain how you came about reading and writing. Each person’s answer is unique and individual, but teach person can only answer it one way. So I found it easier and less intriguing because it reminded me of a lot of college application essays, just talking a lot about basic things about yourself. As for the writing essay contest, depending on what contest or topic you chose, your options were endless. I chose an art themed contest, and it asked me to choose a piece of art by an artist I appreciated and talk about how and why this piece of work spoke to me and why I believe it speaks to others. It was such an interesting, new, and fun topic, I enjoyed writing this much more, because it was something I got to pick rather than telling the reader about myself, I was telling the reader my thoughts, views, and perspective on a subject I found interesting.
ReplyDeleteI like writing like that more because I feel more passionate about what I’m actually saying to an audience and feel more willing to share what I’ve written to my friends, family, class, etc.
It is always interesting when you have the chance to compare things you have done in school. However I think it is even more important to discuss how the processes behind literary projects differ. Many things can be different, whether it is the prompt, the style of writing, or even the genre. For the literacy narrative I had a lot of fun writing in the narrative style. In school this opportunity is often unavailable. You are often stuck writing about whatever you are told for the sake of the grade. When writing this essay I actually started with my body paragraphs which consisted of a many stories about my development of literacy. These stories ranged from time period, location, and topic. It is very rare for an essay that asks for a single main point, to discuss so many different aspects of my own life. Also, I never start off with the beginning of my essays. However, this time it was easier to do so because once I had all of my stories it was easy to construct an introductory paragraph and a sound closing one. Analysis is something I truly enjoy doing, so it was great to have the chance to take a business approach to answer the question "why is xyz company sponsoring this essay contest". Turns out this type of writing prompt was a first for me. For this one I definitely had to start off with an introduction to capture all of my thoughts. I wrote more about analytical and business features of my prompt. It was really cool to answer some of the "whys?" and not just write an essay to answer a prompt. Lastly I had the chance to actually respond to the prompt which I was analyzing. I chose a business focused prompt that essentially asked "how will you impact the world around you and what are your goals?". For this prompt I actually learned a lot about myself and my writing styles. This differed from the other two because I actually spoke in my paper. The essay was more loosely organized and was to be read as if I was speaking, and then at times I would get more serious and practical. Overall there were many clear differences between the processes of these three papers. On the other hand though, there were many similarities such as, the basic flow of the pieces, the ways I sought to complete the assignment, and lastly the level of personal touch I put in to each one. I think it taught me that even when presented three vastly different prompts, you can still manage to write a strong paper.
ReplyDeleteSince being at UCF, I have been enrolled in five classes and completed two of them over the summer. Of these five classes, only two of them have required me to complete actual writing assignments, my English Composition class this semester and my Strategies for College Success class over summer.
ReplyDeleteIn Strategies for College Success, or SLS, we had two writing assignments that required us to write reflectively on our experiences about the class and to analyze our experiences in our writing. Although i found that class to be somewhat pointless in general, I do appreciate how it rehired me to brush up on some of those writing skills because they come in handy for the writing class I am in now, English Composition, or ENC.
In ENC so far we have had three writing assignments that have required for me to use the same skills i developed earlier in my SLS class. We have had a literacy narrative, where I had to use my reflective skills to reflect upon my whole career in literature and attribute certain experiences and factors in my past to how I have become the writer and reader that I am today.
Our other two assignments were paired together, we were required to find an essay prompt contest online and write first write an essay for the contest and then an analysis on of the contest as a whole, basically determining why the essay is existent in the first place. The essay required me to use the same skills I did for the Literary analysis and reflect upon my own experiences and thoughts. The analysis required more of my analyzation skills that I learned in SLS and I used them to find out what the true meaning of the contest was, why the publisher of the contest would want to host it, what there true motivation was for offering and giving out a prize.
I learned from all of these assignments that the most important part of the writing process, at least for me, is to not worry too much in the beginning or while your writing your first draft because that will only hold you back. It is best to get your thoughts all out and then make the necessary adjustments and revisions in the end.