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In the Reflective Writing and the Revision Process article it starts out by talking about how the first time this student had to perform a reflective writing process when this person was a doctoral student at Florida State University. In this Article Giles talks a lot about reflecting and editing student’s works. One thing thatContinue reading “Giles: Reflective Writing Blog”

Sample 1: The first thing I noticed about sample draft number one is that the poem is shaped like an upward facing arrow. I am not sure his purpose for this but I think he did this because he symbolizes something along the lines of that he is always moving forward never backward, and alwaysContinue reading “Sample Collages Blog”

I will be honest with you I am not an avid reader, so for my to be determined blog I am going to write about my favorite tv show entourage. I know I know I should read more, but I am just one of those people who is not motivated to read.  Entourage the tvContinue reading “To Be Determined Blog”

In the article “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” written by Kyle D. Stedman, the beginning of the article talks about how readers get annoyed with people if they do not cite sources correctly. I agree and disagree with Stedman’s point of view. I know correctly cited the sources gives credibility  and looks good ; andContinue reading “Annoying Sources: Stedman”

Starting off I really like this way of teaching kids, giving a kid an orange tree and letting him try to care for it and letting it die. Not only is it a good way of teaching a young kid about the root system but I love how it is a way of teaching individualContinue reading “Barthelme: The School”

After Reading “Revision Attitudes” by Brock Deither I learned that the first step to becoming a better revisor is having a better attitude. This really hits home with me because golf is constant revision. Whether its is practicing with my dad or playing in a college tournament, I am always adjusting little things here andContinue reading “Dethier: Revising Attitudes”

This reading is about the peer editing process. This article is written by Richard Straub. Straub who earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State, taught courses in writing, composition and rhetoric, and literature at Florida State University. Much of his work revolved around the response to the evaluation of students writing.  Straub first talks about theContinue reading “Straub Reading Response”

Mother Tongue To be honest I did not really get the point of mother tongue and how it correlates to what we are learning in class. Or maybe it don’t get it because I am so tired I can barely put thoughts together. Ok I am already getting off track, ok lets go. Like IContinue reading “Mother Tongue & Just Walk On By”

“Backpacks vs Briefcases”  After reading and analyzing the Backpacks vs Briefcases piece, it brought back all the high school snobby, arrogant, preppy, ritzy judgements of Newport Beach that I finally got away from when I left for college. There are many aspects to love about Newport Beach but that is not one of them. IContinue reading “Backpacks vs Briefcases”

After reading Anne Lamott’s thoughts on the writing process I now know that even some of the best writers in the world have a similar writing process to me and think the same shitty thoughts about their pieces of work when they are finished as I do to mine. “I know some very great writers.Continue reading “Lamott: Shitty First Drafts”