Introduction
This project is created by about fifty students writing about whatever they feel passionate about. It is a collection of short, about one to five page, stories that the students created and have worked on since the beginning of the project, put together into one book. What I wrote about was life before coming to high tech, and how I have changed since then.
Real World Writing Purposes Field Guide
The actual paper.
Real world writing purposes fits into this project because, obvious, writing for an assignment and writing for someone to read in the real world is a lot different. You have different reasons for writing. When writing for someone to read, you have to be organized, neat, and make sure it flows nice and make it interesting. A good rule of thumb is if you won't read what you're writing, why would someone else read it?
Real world writing purposes fits into this project because, obvious, writing for an assignment and writing for someone to read in the real world is a lot different. You have different reasons for writing. When writing for someone to read, you have to be organized, neat, and make sure it flows nice and make it interesting. A good rule of thumb is if you won't read what you're writing, why would someone else read it?
1 Topic = 18 Topics
The one topic to 18 topics (incomplete for me, sadly I got the actual paper done without doing it.) was supposed to help us find what to write about, find what we're passionate about, and try to write about it.
By doing this paper, we were able to expand our general topic into 18 smaller more focused topics. |
Five Minute Quick Writes
The purpose of these five minute quick writes were to get us into the writing mind, and we had to write a 5 minute quick-write for every topic we had (seen above,) which probed us to think deeper and thing harder on what we were writing.
However, contrary to popular belief, I believe that they didn't really help me all too much, as I knew what I wanted to write about from the very beginning, so doing these didn't really change my subject or probe me to think harder, but I understood the reasoning behind it. |
Down & Final Draft
This is my first draft, which I edited enough to become my final draft.
Re-reading the down draft from the very first time I wrote it, I realized that by editing it heavily, I changed the tense, was more in depth on the actual story, and I provided details that others might now know about.
Re-reading the down draft from the very first time I wrote it, I realized that by editing it heavily, I changed the tense, was more in depth on the actual story, and I provided details that others might now know about.
Reverse-Engineered Mentor Text Graphic Organizer
The actual doc.
What a mentor text is in simple terms is another piece of writing we mentored our work off of. They were articles, essays by other students, etc... that we used to assist us on ours.
My mentor text was a mentor text on how D.I.Y. video games can be coming into the market soon thanks to indie game success, and I used it as a mentor text because of how it organized it's sources chronologically and all the events that happened the same way.
The mentor text affected my piece of writing because of, as I said, how the paper was organized, and the way they wrote resonated with mine.
What a mentor text is in simple terms is another piece of writing we mentored our work off of. They were articles, essays by other students, etc... that we used to assist us on ours.
My mentor text was a mentor text on how D.I.Y. video games can be coming into the market soon thanks to indie game success, and I used it as a mentor text because of how it organized it's sources chronologically and all the events that happened the same way.
The mentor text affected my piece of writing because of, as I said, how the paper was organized, and the way they wrote resonated with mine.
Graphic ORganizers
The graphic organizers that I found the most useful would be the organizer about using sensory images because I feel that before I did the graphic organizer, I was using bland and overused terms, but after looking into using more descriptive and better words, I feel it made my piece much better than before.
The least helpful graphic organizer would be the graphic organizer about the outline, because I feel like we should have focused more on our own writing rather than looking at others, but that's just my opinion.
The least helpful graphic organizer would be the graphic organizer about the outline, because I feel like we should have focused more on our own writing rather than looking at others, but that's just my opinion.
Feedback & Critique
The critiques that were the most useful would be the author-led critique because it allowed the author to write about that they wanted critique for, and it allowed the people who were critiquing to focus on those areas only, helping the author more-so than say if they were just told to look for "errors."
The critiques that were the least useful were definitely the scissors critique because I felt like that critique was pointless, it felt we just cut up our work and organized it for no reason. I didn't get the point of it.
The critiques that were the least useful were definitely the scissors critique because I felt like that critique was pointless, it felt we just cut up our work and organized it for no reason. I didn't get the point of it.
The Final Draft
What I'm most proud of in my writing would definitely be how open I was and how honest I was to myself, which allowed me to reflect on how it was before, and I got to see the improvement from the beginning to end.
Something that's missing would definitely be the whole "Reflecting" part of this. I didn't reflect within the paper itself, and while it may have not been necessary, some people may have enjoyed my thoughts on the whole situation, but I didn't include it for whatever reason, and I hope to include it next time I have a big piece of writing.
Something that's missing would definitely be the whole "Reflecting" part of this. I didn't reflect within the paper itself, and while it may have not been necessary, some people may have enjoyed my thoughts on the whole situation, but I didn't include it for whatever reason, and I hope to include it next time I have a big piece of writing.
Reflection
What I wanted to write about when I started this project is exactly what I wrote about; how it was to have social anxiety. My ideas slightly changed just from having social anxiety, to writing about it how I got over social anxiety, and how I was able to conquer the pain that I experienced long ago.
My first draft was very rough. It was more of a get it down on paper, then revise it later, at it's most basic form. I wrote just what I wanted, and through a week or two of revising the paper, I was able to refine it into what it is now.
What I did on this project was definitely just write what I wanted to write about what I felt, and then refine that paper.
What I would change about my piece now would be to attempt to work on explaining the feeling to people who have never felt like I have, and to try and put others into my shoes so that they could experience what I did.
My first draft was very rough. It was more of a get it down on paper, then revise it later, at it's most basic form. I wrote just what I wanted, and through a week or two of revising the paper, I was able to refine it into what it is now.
What I did on this project was definitely just write what I wanted to write about what I felt, and then refine that paper.
What I would change about my piece now would be to attempt to work on explaining the feeling to people who have never felt like I have, and to try and put others into my shoes so that they could experience what I did.