In this last blog post I am going to talk about the process of this class and how it helped me learn and grow. I had professor Mangini for English 100 also and my first thought when I found out we would have to post publicly online I was like no I don’t want to do that because I like keeping things private but I decided to try it out. After writing a few blogs I really enjoyed it. I liked the way the class was set up and what we wrote so I decided to take him again for Comp. II. In class the process is more keep improving your writing not just typing a draft handing it in and getting a grade he actually wants you to improve your writing and do as many drafts as you want. Also the things we would read and talk about all lead back to the same thing. They are more interesting and real life topics rather than the general research or writing. You had a lot of space to do something you wanted to write about. I loved this class because it made me want to improve my writing and made me enjoy going to class and doing my blogs. I think for me in my perspective I have improved my writing skills a lot since taking his class and probably have learned more in these two classes then all of high school. I would recommend if you need to take english 100 or 112 take this one.
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The second game we did in class was we had to put together a chapter of a memoir titled The Art of Memoir by Mary Carr. It was cut into pieces and in groups we had to piece it together by reading it and trying to figure out what order it went in. I believe our group was the first to finish. Here is a photo of the chapter we put together.
In class we had a game show with three different activities to complete in our groups. The first one was take four categories and put the slips of paper underneath of them that belong there. For example one of the categories was Genres/sub genres so you would put reflective writing, memoir, and creative nonfiction under it. Here is images of the completed product.
12) Formal Assignment #2. A Reflection. [Categories: Reflection]: Please complete the following:
In this blog post I am going to talk about my process in writing my research paper, Should the U.S. Follow Finland Education System. For this paper I worked alone. This was a good approach because I could sit down and concentrate. The rhetorical mode I used for my paper is argumentative and the genre is argumentative research paper. I wrote this paper in a few days. Well I did the into in school and then after school I went home organized all my research material and highlighted the information I was going to use. I then sat there for five hours and worked on it and got a pretty good amount done. A few days after that I did the same thing and then finished it in school when I had my break. This was a good approach for me. I wrote this paper at home on my kitchen table and in the library at school. My second draft I wrote in class and also in the library at school. This was also a good approach for me. I chose this topic because when I was watching the movie Where to Invade Next and they were talking about this I found myself saying and kinda yelling at myself oh yeah I so agree, why doesn’t my school do this. Or this is unfair we need this in U.S schools. I think it was a good choice. It felt good to write this argument because I felt strongly about it and I found a lot of information that was useful. 11) Formal Assignment #1. A Reflection [Categories: Reflection]: Please complete the following:
In this blog my process of writing my first formal assignment and whether my approaches were good choice or bad. For my first formal assignment I choose the genre of a Fan-Fiction narrative. It is fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular TV series, movie, book, etc. In class we read a story called A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. I used this story to make a Fan Fiction Narrative out of it. In my writing a use a type of writing called Reflective Writing. Here is draft #1 of my fan fiction called Who Really is the Misfit? To compose my fanfiction narrative I worked alone. I think this was a good approach because if I have anyone else around me or even the TV on I get distracted. Although I did hand my drafts in for revision so I guess I didn't work completely alone. The rhetorical mode I am using for this writing is narration. The genre is fanfiction. I wrote this draft over a course of a week. On tuesdays and thursdays I have a two and a half hour break between classes so I would work on it then in the school library so I had no distractions and I had to actually sit there and do it. I think this was a good approach. I wrote this paper in the library and at home. In the library I believe was a good choice because it really made me sit down and focus on it. At home is where I had to finish it. I don’t think this was a good approach because there are so many things yo get distracted by at home. I chose to write about this chosen topic because one I love fanfiction. I love how you can make it into anything you want. I always find myself making up stories in my head and I actually got to write one down for my class for once. I have only probably read two whole actual books, besides kid books in my lifetime. One was a fanfiction that actually became published. It also makes it easier to imagine what these characters in the book are really like or look like because they are usually based off of real people. I chose to write a fanfiction about A Good Man is Hard to Find, but mostly the Misfit because I read it and I was like I can actually maybe make this into something. Instead of them killing the family I could make the house actually there and trap them into it and have the Misfit have this whole backstory was my first thought. This Misfit also reminded me of a character on the CW show riverdale which is based on the Archie Comic books. The show and the story are both kinda dark so I made this into a fanfiction of the mixture of the two. I actually had a lot of fun writing it and figuring out how I was going to tell this story. During writing this story I had so many ideas I had to write them all down. Now I still have ideas how I can change it or add some stuff for major plot twists. I love the complexity of characters and how they all have a past and a story to tell. |
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