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Failing to mention either the most rewarding or the most distressing aspects of learning to write would be to tell an incomplete story. I have an intimate yet erratic relationship with writing. I am a most ambivalent lover. Stopping to glance at my watch, my fingers still poised above the keyboard, I have smiled, amazed to find that I have been in a state of bliss in which hours have passed without my noticing. I have also flushed and sweated as I stared at my computer screen, reading my own text over and over again, vainly trying to anticipate the criticism I correctly supposed would come.
I love, adore, am devoted to, am crazy about writing. The limitations of words are nowhere more apparent that when I try to describe my pleasure, joy, delight, satisfaction at using, playing with, relishing, wielding them.
I know about writing; well, the truth is that I sometimes know how to write. How it is that I know how to write is something I don’t know a lot about. I am a creative writer and a formal essayist. I am humorous and deadly serious, courageous and terrified. I write fiction and essay, poetry and prose. That makes me the teller of lies and truths and, perhaps occasionally, a bit of Truth. But I am fragile, so fragile.
I can write when approval is heaped on me, layered like blankets; give me flannel, cotton, polyester blends, wool and down. Regardless of their weight or numbers, they never smother me or weigh me down. In truth, they barely keep out the drafts. I am grateful to be able to report that I have been wrapped tightly in such comforters as:
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Second, I attended the International Women’s Writing Guild’s Summer Conference last month at Skidmore College. Eunice Scarfe, a Canadian short story writer who teaches at the University of Alberta taught a workshop that I was drawn to attend each day. She called free writing “the act of writing,” and then described the editing and crafting that follow as “the art of writing.” That phrase brought a dignity to what had sometimes seemed to be embarrassingly numerous rewrites. It allows me a little shelter from the cold drafts that always threaten.
Last, despite the uncertainty I feel about this relationship, despite my anxiety and my love’s many warts, complexities and annoying habits, I tuck the blanket around the two of us. I am conflicted, but still in love and something that I can’t quite name keeps me coming back for more.
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I did not plan on taking a general education English course as I entered into college. I was confident that my IB higher-level English test scores from high school would cover the requirement, and moreover, I was sure that I didn’t need to take an entry-level composition course. I naively believed that I already knew everything that I could possibly learn in such a course. You might imagine, then, the frustration and resignation I felt when I learned that the aforementioned test scores would not
Drafting a Personal Narrative Overview: We each have significant events or “chapters” that make up our lives and have helped shape who we are becoming. A personal narrative is an essay in which you tell the story of one of those important memories, lessons or events. Your narrative, will include characters, a series of related events (plot) and a setting. Beyond just explaining what happened, however, an excellent personal narrative also reflects on what the incident meant to you then and what
Writing doesn’t come easily to me, which must make me a glutton for punishment. It has taken me years of training, learning to structure an essay and unlearning to begin again. Only since attending HSU am I realizing how exceptional my writing has become. Over the course of two semesters, I have seen my writing expand and grow. While I still adhere to the training I received in high school, I am excited to now take these tools and develop my own unique style in the years to come. From the beginning
a strong writer so my lack of confidence just added to my apprehension. I knew I needed to work on my writing skills but I didn’t know what to expect or what I would get out of the course. I now know that my concerns were unfounded – when you have the clear understanding of your topic, which approach you are going to take and what points you are trying to make to your audience then writing seems less difficult. I found that the journals were a great exercise for me to write my ideas, concerns and
with writing a well thought out paper in a brief amount of time. However, from class discussions and reading assignments such as “Shitty First Draft”, it became clear that writing does not come easy to anyone. Learning this piece of information has brought to my attention one major flaw of my writing process: believing that only proofreading my first draft will result in an excellent final draft. Instead of taking time to create a “shitty” first draft, I spent long hours trying to formulate my thoughts
can write interesting things and that I can enjoy the writing process! I experienced two major changes during this class. The first was that I discovered my motivation for writing (which was new to me) and the second is that I became comfortable with revision. Having these two new perspectives changes my personal relationship to the art of writing, which is great for me. I think it will allow me to give my students a more authentic, rich writing experience. Being given the opportunity to write, during
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LITERACY NARRATIVE KINE DEGEFU WESTERN GOVERNERS UNIVERSITY WGU STUDENT ID # 414551 MY IMPROVEMENT IN ESL CLASS Writing two essays in my ESL class was a significant writing experience because they helped me create cohesive paragraphs. This class has taught me how to write well-organized papers. My writing has improved gradually, but I still have some work to
has been my first semester taking classes with Johnston Community College as a High School student. In my English 111 class I have learned many things that will help me in my future education in high school, and in college. Having a strong foundation in writing is key to success in any subject. Finding my own personal style or way of writing has helped me become a better student, and a better writer. I know that I will carry the skills I have learned with me into my other classes. My writing process
decide to do my sophomore year personal narrative from World Literature class. The sophomore year personal narrative was a paper written to explain a memory from our past with rhetorical devices. This assignment was assigned in World Literature class because the teacher wanted to prepare us for our junior research paper and this paper was written about one or two years ago. The reason I wanted to reflect on this paper was because of its original idea, style, and the way felt writing this paper.
because I imagined it would suffocate my creativity. My biggest fear was that there would be limits to the amount of individuality that I would be allowed to let surface in my writing. Imagine being inside of a box. Your thoughts are refined and you hope for at least one tiny hole to be punched into that box. You wish to bring a vibrant perspective and individuality to the box. If you were in the box, you would have the desire to arrange the box into your personal vision of creativeness. I expected