My identity as a writer has evolved and grown as I have through out my life. As a young child in school my writing identity was far from what it is today as a nineteen year old university student. My identity as a writer has been influenced by my social contexts and my culture along the way. My identity as a writer has been constructed by my life experiences. As children we are taught to write about the world around us, the people in our lives and our own personal experiences this allows us to write a primary narrative where we tell stories about our own lives or close members of social circles such as our parents (Huili, 2005). I remember as a child we would write stories about what we did during our school holidays or on the weekends. As …show more content…
To write the memoir I had to recall a memory with a strong emotion, for me this was the feeling of being terrified of loosing a loved one. The first step was to recall the memory and take note of which details I remembered. Next it is important to ‘hook’ the reader, memoirs open with a strong opening sentence to engage the reader, these normally introduce the character. The opening sentence in my text was “Back against the wall hoping for support.” This showed that my piece was going to be about an emotion that made me feel weak and hopeless. Another step in the process of writing a memoir is to not waste words. As a writer its important to choose which words to include and which words not to. This is done throughout the entire writing process, as you write you’re choosing the words that going on the page but also as you re-read and edit your work you are constantly changing the words you use to try and make sentences flow better or to make a reader understand what you are trying to say (Loane, 2017). In my text I never named the emotion I was feeling, instead I used other words to describe the emotion, I believe that this causes the reader to read in more detail and process what you are trying to
Wardle, Elizabeth. "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces." Wardle, Elizabeth and Doug Downs. Writing about Writing A College Reader. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2011. 520-537. Print.
How can you nurture and support the confidence of all students and help them forge unique writing identities? Through writing, people can understand themselves and other people better. We are all constantly reviewing and assigning meaning to our life experiences and putting those experiences into words—whether through self-talk or telling stories to other people. This ‘language’ is a way ‘we’ understand, organize, and relate to, making the chaos of our communities and lives coherent. In a writing environment that is loose and for the most part free we can slow down this articulation process in order to become increasingly and critically conscious of the meanings we assign to our experiences and communities in which we belong. It makes people think more about what they want to say and how they are saying it.
Before high school, I was in a middle school in a country where English wasn’t a first language. Instead of analyzing text or writing persuasive essays, I was learning how to communicate. Being one of the few students at my school who reads books out loud at home or who watch movies and talk after the characters, I was able to grasp the idea of using evidence, rhetorical devices and diction. When I came to the United States and learned how to include those in my writing was a wonderful experience. Understanding Shakespeare, analyzing poems by Emily Dickinson and being able to visualize Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” opened up the world of writing and its impact for me. Using “I” in writing was all I learned in middle school with a class full of kids with the same background while wanting to above and beyond. Writing personal journals, leaning tenses and memorizing definitions didn’t quench my thirst of learning how to write a well written work like the one’s I read in my native language. Williams argues that culture should be included in writing and teachers should tolerate that while I have a different point of view on the subject. Including my culture and background in my identity didn’t make me stand out from my class, my use of rhetorical devices and use of words did. One of the reasons that I was able to build my writing skills in high school and not struggle in my English class was not by the use of my identity but by
This assignment is a testament of growth and contributed to my outlook on strategies towards improving my writing through the importance of understanding how crucial, each component of the writing process is and how in depth you should take each process. Lastly, this reflection advocated how editing is the principal task of every good writer. “To write is human, to edit is divine,” Stephen
Types of literacy nonfiction that filled with personal experiences are in autobiography and memoirs. It helps the reader in depth of Angell 's essay so they can understand what it is like to lose the loved ones. Angell tells the readers, "My wife, Carol, doesn’t know that President Obama won reelection last Tuesday, carrying Ohio and Pennsylvania and Colorado, and compiling more than three hundred electoral votes. She doesn’t know anything about Hurricane Sandy." that made them feel that his wife is no longer live with him, (413). Readers can imagine that he is sad because he wants his wife to be with him and
My relationship with writing has been much like roller coaster.Some experiences I had no control over. Other experiences were more influential. Ultimately it wasn’t until I started reading not because I had to read but because I wanted to, that's when my relationship reached change. I would have probably never cared about writing as I do today if it weren't for the critics in my family. When I was a child, my aunts and uncles always been in competition with who's child is better in school. I have always hated reading and writing because of the pressure to prove my family wrong was overwhelming for me. I had to prove them wrong and show them that I was capable of being "smart" which according to them was getting straight A's in all your classes.
As the semester finally approaches the finish line, I revisit my past work to compare and contrast how this class has developed me into a successful writer at the college level. Throughout the year my writing style has developed and become broader as I have learned how to incorporate more of my personal views as well as reliable, unbiased information. This portfolio is a representation of how many things I have learned along the way while being an English 102 student.
Orenstein, Peggy. “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” The New York Times Magazine. 4 Dec. 2006. Rpt. in Writing Communities and Identities. Ed. Cynthia Debes et al. 6th ed. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2009. 50-54.
As every well-read person knows, the background in which you grow up plays a huge role in how you write and your opinions. Fuller grew up with a very strict education, learning multiple classic languages before she was eight years old. Fern grew up with writers all throughout her family and had a traditional education and saw first hand the iniquities of what hard-working had to contend with. Through close analysis of their work, a reader can quickly find the connections between their tone, style, content, and purpose and their history of their lives and their educational upbringing.
In my 205 I was asked to consider how and why my writing changes from one community to another. This essay represents the results of that exploration.
Compose Yourself: Writing & Identity in Douglas, Williams & Walker. For the last several years, whenever I teach an introductory composition course I use an anthology of essays called Fields of Writing. One of the strengths of this collection is the exemplary diversity of its selections, and among the best of these are many essays by African Americans. I assign a number of these in the course, but four in particular I have found to be consistently useful in teaching basic ideas about composition.
Different writing styles present different tone and emotion. For example, a story about being in the war has more negative emotion than a story of a child being in her bedroom. Also, a story about a child makes the reader feel more relaxed and has an easier environment than a woman who is trying to be independent, which could encourage others to be independent themselves. Furthermore, when we analyze literature, we could find out that different authors have different writing styles. For instance, an adult could see a child’s visions, a war victim could talk positively while recalling her memories, and a person can be straightforward while chasing full independence. Also, when we read these stories, we can relate them to our own experiences.
In studying the advent of autobiography as a genre in its own right, it would seem to be a particularly modern form of literature, a hybrid form of biography. Also, the distinctions between the forms of the biography, personal history or diary and novel are becoming questioned in that the autobiography is not an account of wisdom accumulated in a lifetime but a defining of identity. 2
Born November 8th 1982 to a literary family, Lauren Oliver (Laura Suzanne Schechter) was encouraged to live expressively and imaginatively from a young age by creating her own stories, painting, and performing. With an upbringing in surroundings such as these, coupled with two parents both knowledgeable in literature and a house full of books, it seems as though Oliver had received from a young age the ideal push towards her career as a writer. Oliver, with a passion for reading went on to study Literature and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, subsequently returning to her home city of New York to attend a creative writing course at NYU. Her Father, aside from being a professor, is himself a published writer of true crime and has written essays on popular culture. Although this may have been a helpful and influential factor towards her career, it is by no means indicative of a lack of personal identity as a writer.
The most painful memories are obviously the most memorable and the most powerful because their sentiment sticks with the reader and forces them to sympathize with the speaker. The most memorable examples would be those of when the speaker recalls how he used to rationalize his father’s drinking as a kid; especially die to the fact he has admitted the truth to what is behind his father’s behavior to himself – but still feel like that small helpless kid that could only watch his own father suffer. The elaboration of these specific memories speak lengths to the character of the speaker due to the fact he had felt such an unecessary burden of responsibility at such a young age.