September 18, 2021
Literacy Narrative
1. What I did:
- Revised all of my Literacy Narrative
2. What went well:
- I was able to see where I could improve in my writing in order for it to be better and less like a “project”
3. What was hard:
- There wasn’t anything that was hard this week due to me only being needed to revise and read over the articles for week 4.
4. To-Do List:
- Look over my assignments for week 5 and see what I need to do so I can have a head start.
5. Where I left off:
- I left off with a revised Literacy Narrative that is finished. I also left off at the end of the reading, Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
6. How do I feel?
I feel pretty relaxed. For the past couple of weeks the work has been pretty straight forward. I have had no problems completing it from the time I started college. I want to keep this going in the next weeks for this course.
7. Do you agree that these habits and experiences are essential? Why?
I agree that these habits and experiences are essential because these basic habits and experiences are basically what great writing has, due to it giving the writing life. When I say life, I mean that the writing that is given is not dead and robotic. It explains in the article that students should have the habit of flexibility, meaning that they should be able to adapt to the situations they are placed in. This is important to writing due to the fact that, as people, we wont be given the same question every single time, but different questions with different requirements. So, as writers, we will need to be able to manipulate our work so that it is given meaning and is easy for the audience, which could be anyone, to understand. Just as I gave the example of flexibility, other writing habits are important because they provide a more personal approach to writing rather than the dull robotic form of writing taught to us as being the form claim, evidence, and reasoning. Also, going on to experiences, the article names the experience of developing critical thinking in writing, reading, and research. This is an essential experience because if writers don’t have critical thinking, their work will lack a a deeper message and will be very plain and ordinary. Writers should step out of that boundary, in which critical thinking allows that, making the work exponentially better. And same situation as before, this one experience of developing critical thinking is just an example, in which all of the experiences are needed for your writing to not be plain but your own work with your own words, like you are kind of speaking in a way.