October 16, 2021
Analysis
1. What I did:
- Read Official American English Is Best
- Read Grading Has Always Made Writing Better
- Read Plagiarism Detection Services are Money Well Spent
- Read Face-to-Face Courses are Superior to Online Courses
- Finished the Quarterly Check In
- Finished Revising the Analysis Paper
2. What went well:
- I was able to finish my readings in time without rushing
- I was able to expand my knowledge on why being bilingual is not a bad thing
- I was able to see that grading provides not much improvement to writing, due to teachers mostly following a certain rubric which is going back to the structured writing.
3. What was hard:
- Time was pretty short for completing my English assignments
- I was stressed out with the workload all week
4. To-Do List:
- Look at Week 9s Assignment
5. Where I left off:
- Finished Analysis Paper
- Finished 4 Chapters from Bad Ideas Of Writing
6. How do I feel?
I felt stressed out over the week due to the lack of time I had to finish both my reading and revising my paper. Even though I was able to do the reading, I had to quickly finish revising my paper in order to reach the deadline. I knew what I needed to fix, however it could have taken longer. I’ll look into the next week giving more time to English.
7. In your response, please describe the problem or issue you see at the heart of the chapter you’ve chosen. Do some informal research (Google is great here) and see what conversations are happening around this issue.
The problem I see is that failure is still looked upon as being bad when writing. This leads writers to shy away from making mistakes and being scared to write what they feel is necessary. Two sides of the failure argument is the one side that believes that failure always means something negative which can be represented as the past generations believing that failure just shows stupidity or weakness of mind. The other side is that failure just leads to you mastering writing, in which this side believes that writing gets better overtime, going towards the 10,000 hour rule. Both sides are filled with writers that have different norms. According to Allison D. Carr, people who believe failure is negative are people who have their writing hindered due to them following a structure of “perfection” and not being able to make mistakes. However Carr believes people open to mistakes will be better off mastering writing them than people who don’t. From my point of view, I believe that failure is an option and that people are open to failure because it makes them a better writer so they don’t fall into numerous mistakes. When avoiding these mistakes it makes their writing better which I want for myself. This issue is still seen in today’s society, people finding it hard to fail in writing so they don’t get a bad grade on an assignment or a pep talk from an employer. I still wonder when all people will find it easier to fail to learn from mistakes.