For my last blog post I will reflect on the past semester that I spent in this class, our goal is to link back to Blog Post number seven and to engage in reflective writing. I will be talking about Author Identify, my theory of writing, the growth that I had as a writer, and the knowledge I will be able to transfer to future writing situations.
During the course of the year I would say my Author Identity has changed a lot. For one I had never written a memoir in vivid detail, I never really tried t writing in detail before this class. I can also say my relationship with writing has grown a little bit. Before I didn’t care about writing and know I kind of have a soft spot for it. Writing was never one of my strong suits. One thing I can’t say is my process for writing hasn’t changed. I still write last minute and even then, I don’t write in full detail which has hurt me. The other thing that has changed is my theories on writing. Before this class if I had a project, I would just write it out. I didn’t have Description Action Theme “DAT” nor did I ever learn how to format a research paper through Pressure Inform Entertain “PIE” There were a lot of things I also didn’t know what a discourse community is and how it can mean so much. Lastly one thing I didn’t do was write to make meaning. Normally Id just write a rough draft and hand its in. But thanks to this course I was able to write to make meaning, my rough drafts may have been last minuet but they made sense. I have definitely grown as a writer. At the beginning writing wasn’t my strong suit. But through this class I can say that I have become more detailed with my work. And every time I write now, I have in the back of my head be more detailed, it will help in the long run. Another thing I can say I have been more descriptive in my writing. At the start of the year I wasn’t descriptive nor did I put in a lot of detail. But I can say at the end of this semester between my final memoir and my final research paper I have been more descriptive. Lastly how can I transfer this into future writing scenarios? As I said before every time, I write now it’s always in my head add more detail. That’s one thing that has stuck with me throughout this course is to be more detailed and I believe it has shown towards the end of the semester. I can also say that I can transfer DAT, and Pie into other writings that I may be working on. It’s safe to say that this course will be sticking with me for a long time. In conclusion I learned a lot in this class, I have grown as a writer, I have changed my theories of writing and I found some ways to infuse this class with future writing projects. It’s been a fun sixteen weeks and I hope the people who have been reading this blog did as well.
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Reading these texts Our Discourse Community Values, what is Literacy, and We are Many show a theme for writers Identity, and what goes on in our classroom. We are all different writer and have different ways of writing. That’s what makes our classroom unique the ability to have so many different writers and traits in one classroom.
When I read, we are Many I was able to connected the fact that the person who is telling this story is going back in time to reflect on something. This is something we did in class with our Memoirs we were able to go back in time and draw the raw emotions that we felt that day. In the poem Pablo Neruda writes “But when I call upon my dashing beliefs out comes the same old lazy self.” That connects to shitty rough drafts and all of us in our classroom make shitty rough drafts. In calls we talked about Shitty rough drafts. Shitty rough draft is wen we just get ideas out on paper. It doesn’t have to be perfect with amazing edits. It’s just our discourse community getting our thoughts down and then we go back and edited it. When reading our discourse community values, we see a lot of what we have been taught in the classroom and a lot of what we wright as well. Writers identity is something that we’ve been talking about since day one in our class. We have been talking about shaping writer’s identity and how to change your writer’s identity. We also got to clarify ourselves in Blog number one the Proust questionnaire. We got to tell ourselves and our audience who we are, what we do what we like and what are our greatest fears. And through the year with our writing we have shown our audience different emotions, or different ways of writing. It’s a way to connect to the audience and the people who are leaving comments on our blogs. The last piece I read was what is Literacy, one of the points in this writing was “any discourse concerns its self with certain objects and puts forward certain objects viewpoints and values” At the start of the year we brought in our objects to represent something. Those objects that we brought in represent a viewpoint in our life and it showed where we were at certain parts in our life. And making us write about it showed the certain emotions that we felt while holding that objects. We all felt different things from happiness to sadness, making us write about showed us a discourse community and how we came together to write and read aloud our writing. In conclusion these three texts that I read show a discourse community. And show our discourse community in our classroom, from shitty rough drafts, to growing as writers and letting our audience see a side of ourselves, we wouldn’t show. And lastly certain things that make us feel a certain way. A discourse community means these things when you talk about our class. |
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