10-13 blog

Question: Write about what you have written this semester and what you plan on writing this semester.

Answer: I have not written a lot this semester. I have written a paper for English and I blog a lot in that class. In history I have written a 1 page paper and I have another one due this week. In biology I have written 2 papers. They were both over videos we watched, and then wrote a response to the videos. That is all the writing I have done this semester. I plan on writing 2 more papers for English, and continue to blog a lot more. For biology I plan on writing a couple more papers. Both of the papers with be responses to papers that we read or videos that we watch. We never have a  prompt to go by like I would like regular essays. In history I plan to write a couple more papers. History papers are easy to write. The teacher just wants them to be 1-2 pages.

Question: What do you think you will be expected to write for your major?

Answer: I plan on majoring in Early Childhood Education/Special Education. I am actually not sure what I will have to write for that major. I am assuming I will have to write a couple of papers here and there, but I don't think I will have to write an abundant amount of papers throughout my years of taking classes for my major.

Question: How is the writing you have done for other classes different than the writings you have done in this class?

Answer: The writings I have done for other classes is different than the writings I have done in English because the writings I have done for other classes are based off of a video or I have to research things to be able to write the paper. In English, I have a prompt that I go off and the writings are more about my life, which I like. I don't like having to research things or what an hour long video and then write a reflection on it. The writing I like, is something I can relate too and sit down and reflect on my own life and write.

Question: Why do college professors assign writing?

Answer: I believe college professors assign writing for a couple of different reasons. I believe they assign writing because they want other grades in the grade book so we don't just have tests. For me, I love writing assignments in other classes because usually they are fairly easy classes, so I am able to make a good grade. I am not a good test taker so any other good grades I can get, I take advantage of. I also believe college professors assign writing assignments because they want to improve our writing skills. College is a time where we are going to write something for almost  every class we have.

Question: What are the writings we have done in class and a short summary over them.

Answer: The first writing we read was "Shitty First Drafts." That was about how people don't like to write rough drafts, but she says that every author has really bad first drafts. They even have really bad 2nd, 3rd, and 4th drafts. The second piece of writing we read was by Keith Grant-Davis. His piece was called rhetorical situation and their constituents. This piece was about rhetorical situations. The third writing we read was revision strategies of student writers and experienced adult writers.


Question: Who are some people you would like to direct this paper toward?

Answer: I honestly have no idea who I would like to direct this paper toward. I have not even thought about it. But my guess would be I would direct it to my teacher or classmates.

Question: What genre are you writing?

Answer: I don't know what I am going to write yet. I did not even know we had options until this morning. I like the idea of writing a letter, I just have no idea who I am going to be writing a letter to. I will probably just end up doing a regular paper.

Questions: Think about the word recursive. What does it mean and how does that apply to your writing.

Answer: Recursive is having a prewriting plan. You plan your paper out and do research where research needs to be done. Then you start writing your paper but you write a first draft and then have a peer review. After the first draft and peer review you write a second draft, and maybe a teacher review that paper. Then you move onto post writing which includes revision, editing, and proofreading. I think my typical writing process is recursive because I do have people look over my paper before I turn it in.