In the beginning of the year I wrote that, “I need to work on my writing flowing together and have ideas thoughtfully planned out”. Throughout the semester this was my focused goal in my writings for class. In the fifteen-week span of this course I have seen some improvements that align with my original goal from the start of the semester. I believe that this writing I am putting forth now has a clear central topic with a well thought out course of descriptions.
In the past, at the start of my writing my ideas went all over the place and I kept jumping around with ideas rather than connecting them all together. The first time I saw ideas connecting together in my writing was in the first essay, Representing “The Orient”, in which it focused on examining The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies. I felt that this was my first piece of writing in this course that started to address my goals. Multiple drafts of the essay were made with the central idea being adjusted several times and specified to a point that allowed me to write passionately. Looking back at the draft compared to my final essay, a reader can clearly see a change in the body paragraphs and the flow of the essay entirely. When finalizing the essay I remember all the rewrites once my whole idea was refined. Thanks to the experience on my first essay, my process of writing has changed as I now know to make multiple drafts and revisions when writing an essay.
It is important to ensure inclusion of points in your writing that you as a writer are most passionate about. This passion can help a writer find their true claim in an essay and build off it in smaller body paragraphs. As a pair to passion, I learned to take into account the “10 on 1” idea in which a writer analyzes evidence in depth. It ensures that a working thesis will be more specific and better able to account for evidence. In the future, my writing will continue to balance both passion and evidence to help organize my thoughts and present a compelling product to the reader. I think my writing always tries to find a deeper meaning in evidence and be passionate about certain topics or importance.
If I am able to be creative and nonrestrictive with my writing, ideas start to flow and I become less of a “robot” writer. When I enjoy what I am writing about, I feel that I produce a more indepth and mature response. I look forward to the opportunities during my college experience and beyond to find more topics that are of interest to me.
I would like to continue to work on improving my grammar and organization. I have the ability to do this through using the strategies I leveraged in the Representing “The Orient” essay and the Thief of Bagdad assignment. These strategies were “10 on 1” and redrafting my writing multiple times. If I was able to go back and rewrite some of my pieces, I would choose to focus on “Adding our own stories to The Nights” and “Thief of Bagdad” assignments. Although I felt passionate while writing these pieces, I now have better experience and methods that I can leverage to go further in depth and continue to analyze evidence effectively to support my points and storytelling.
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