Sunday, December 12, 2010
what i have learned
I learned a lot from this semester in W131. I learned that there is more about writing then just writing little essay like back in high school. my favorite essay i would have to say is the happiness one. the reason for this one because i enjoyed writing about my family and how this experience changed me as a young child. i worked hours and hours on this essay trying to make it better to where i grab my readers eyes to finish reading the story. the main point of this essay was to teach us how little things can make you happy. and how you don't need a lot of money to make you happy. while writing this essay we were reading deep economy which is a great book to read. It made it really interesting to get into the role of this essay because it talked about our economy and how people think that money is everything. and if you don't have money then your not happy which is not true at all. I think i grew a lot from this essay from a thinker and writing. This class as helped me become a better writer and have more knowledge to where i hope that this will help me in my future at IUPUI.
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I wonder if everyone has a negative writing experience in high school. I know that I always strived to reach the next highest letter. B+ my essays always said, scrawled on with sticky red ink. Realizing the increasing amount of effort that I was putting into each of my papers, how I always was trying to come up with a new aspect of my writing to develop -- trying to become better and achieve that next letter, I became discouraged. No matter what I did, I always got the same thing. "Good but not great." "Well done but not well thought out." I had no idea what any of these comments really meant because I assumed that each comment realated to the next in equivelency. A disconnect occured between me and my instructor that I didn't even know existed; I got burnt out and stopped trying so hard because the effort that I was investing into my work was not adding up to the grade that I was getting out. I guess that effort does not really count like they initially teach you that it does in high school, or at least not in writing. It's the final product that makes all the difference. What it boiled down to, at least for me in my high school experience, was that I did not understand how to create an effective end product that could be understood by my audience. After taking W131, I have gained a better grasp of what that concept means as well as how to effectively accomplish my goals.
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