This is my English Comp 1 (1101-0037) blog. I have my main assignments listed on the right side of this page along with my personal reflections on each paper. Below is my course resume and cover letter to show my objectives and completed assignments from the semester. I have a final reflection of my thoughts through taking ENC 1101 underneath. Thanks for taking a look and have a great day!
In writing the literacy narrative, I found many difficulties in remembering the old memories of what made me interested in reading and writing as a child. Everyone has their memories of their mother, father, or grandparent reading a bedtime story to them before falling asleep at night, but I wanted to dig deeper than that and figure out what it really was that interested me in having books read to me and what motivated me to want to learn how to read. I figured out that watching my older brothers reading things they were interested in like super heroes and bugs made me realize that I could really enjoy reading too! They were my role models and I wanted to like everything they liked; therefor I began to read about super heroes and bugs as well. Going deep into the elementary school age was easy for me; learning how to write a proper essay for the FCAT writes and having every step basically implanted into my mind. Although writing was a success of mine, I lacked in reading and comprehension in elementary and middle school. I found it interesting that as I progressed through the years, I continued to push myself to become better than I could ever be and I proceeded to gain strength throughout the years. This essay was difficult at some points of remembering the difficulties growing up and reading and writing, but as I remembered each stage in my life, it was much easier to write the literacy narrative.
Remembering the past hobbies I had that involved reading and writing made me realize how creative I was as a child. Looking back on my narrative essay, it looks as if I blamed all of my loss of creativity on the FCAT. Although I still agree with everything I said about FCAT, how it limits creativity, I don’t think I should’ve blamed it all on it. I lost creativity because I stopped using it to the best of my ability like I used to when I began to learn how to read and write. I realize now that I should have kept writing for fun like I used to; I wonder how great of a writer I’d be today if I kept up with that hobby of mine as a child. One thing I would change in my analysis would be to not complain about the FCAT so much but dig deeper into the reasons why I quit writing for fun. It’s not really FCAT’s fault!
Receiving feedback from my classmates was somewhat difficult to me on this essay because I didn’t think they could’ve helped me write about my own childhood and my own experiences of reading and writing as I grew up. I had a mindset thinking they didn’t know me as well as I knew myself. When I read over their essays it gave me more to think about within my own background and experiences of reading and writing and also gave me ideas to place emphasis on different areas of my essay to strengthen it. Their reviews were helpful in ways that encouraged me to write more of a topic or not talk about another topic as much. It is always nice to get kind critique from classmates that are on the same level as I am and can help me strengthen my essay before handing it to the professor. Longhany’s critique was helpful as well when it came to grading my narrative. He was understanding and interested in what I wrote about and he added many comments on how I could emphasize more on a topic and share a little about what we read in a story in class to back up my essay. All in all, the narrative was helpful in piecing together my adventure of reading and writing throughout my entire life!
In writing the literacy narrative, I found many difficulties in remembering the old memories of what made me interested in reading and writing as a child. Everyone has their memories of their mother, father, or grandparent reading a bedtime story to them before falling asleep at night, but I wanted to dig deeper than that and figure out what it really was that interested me in having books read to me and what motivated me to want to learn how to read. I figured out that watching my older brothers reading things they were interested in like super heroes and bugs made me realize that I could really enjoy reading too! They were my role models and I wanted to like everything they liked; therefor I began to read about super heroes and bugs as well. Going deep into the elementary school age was easy for me; learning how to write a proper essay for the FCAT writes and having every step basically implanted into my mind. Although writing was a success of mine, I lacked in reading and comprehension in elementary and middle school. I found it interesting that as I progressed through the years, I continued to push myself to become better than I could ever be and I proceeded to gain strength throughout the years. This essay was difficult at some points of remembering the difficulties growing up and reading and writing, but as I remembered each stage in my life, it was much easier to write the literacy narrative.
ReplyDeleteRemembering the past hobbies I had that involved reading and writing made me realize how creative I was as a child. Looking back on my narrative essay, it looks as if I blamed all of my loss of creativity on the FCAT. Although I still agree with everything I said about FCAT, how it limits creativity, I don’t think I should’ve blamed it all on it. I lost creativity because I stopped using it to the best of my ability like I used to when I began to learn how to read and write. I realize now that I should have kept writing for fun like I used to; I wonder how great of a writer I’d be today if I kept up with that hobby of mine as a child. One thing I would change in my analysis would be to not complain about the FCAT so much but dig deeper into the reasons why I quit writing for fun. It’s not really FCAT’s fault!
Receiving feedback from my classmates was somewhat difficult to me on this essay because I didn’t think they could’ve helped me write about my own childhood and my own experiences of reading and writing as I grew up. I had a mindset thinking they didn’t know me as well as I knew myself. When I read over their essays it gave me more to think about within my own background and experiences of reading and writing and also gave me ideas to place emphasis on different areas of my essay to strengthen it. Their reviews were helpful in ways that encouraged me to write more of a topic or not talk about another topic as much. It is always nice to get kind critique from classmates that are on the same level as I am and can help me strengthen my essay before handing it to the professor. Longhany’s critique was helpful as well when it came to grading my narrative. He was understanding and interested in what I wrote about and he added many comments on how I could emphasize more on a topic and share a little about what we read in a story in class to back up my essay. All in all, the narrative was helpful in piecing together my adventure of reading and writing throughout my entire life!