Final Blog Reflection

While I have learned a lot from W131, wallowing in complexity, contributing to the conversation, etc. The most valuable thing that I have taken away from this class is being able to write a paper without treating it like an assignment. While the other things are useful to know and use I think being able to look at a paper and not look at it as an assignment is much more valuable. Once I was able to do this I found it much easier to keep writing and contributing more to the paper instead of stopping at the minimum page number. Before when I acted like these were assignments I would just stop and not go on because I had nothing more to say. Later when I stopped treating it like an assignment and thought of it as contributing something to the conversation then it was much easier and quicker to write. Then the only had part became cutting out extra things so my paper wasn’t so long. The only way I was able to treat my papers like this was because I learned how to first wallow and contribute and analyze things first. Once I reached this stage of writing I also grew more confident in my ability to write. Thoughts were coming in easier and I didn’t have to go to great lengths to reach for any ideas. I don’t worry so much about limits that high school writing taught me for so many years. As long as I can back up my ideas with creditable sources then I really have no limits to my ability to write.