Reflection Post (12)

I think I prepared and worked on the essay very well. I always worked in class and never goofed off. When I was at home, I worked on my outline, R.D., second R.D., or F.D. until I completed the requirements that were given to fix up what was wrong with the essay. I always took any opportunity I had to get an evaluation of the essay when the opportunity was given to the class.

I have learned that apparently I put to much information into my essays and that this ruins my argument. I also learned that I seem to go beyond the boundaries set by my topic sentneces and that I need to contain them better. One more thing I learned was that I should stop using so many words in my essay that aren't neccesary, which will be very hard for me to fix because my nature is just to use many words for smaller ideas, which means filtering my essays will be very, very challenging.

As for my writing philosophy, I still do e-mails, type, and just very basic programming. I don't exactly write that much anymore, thanks to my laptop, and I am currently against texting for it is a vile and corrupt form of language that forces you to rewire your brain in order to use it, where I could just call someone and use my VOICE to talk to them. Anyways, as for what I still have contained within my writing philosophy, the approaches to them have changed somewhat. E-mails are begginning to become a common-place for me, making me have to be e-mail able, so with this new found skill, writing out e-mails is becoming very easy for me. I usually check the box when I begin to write an e-mail, just in case there is already an e-mail for what I was going to send. Then I type in the formalities (Hey (blank), (message) Sincerly(or Good Bye, (witty text), next line)Brady). Since e-mails don't neccesarily have to have complete sentences, paragraphs, or for that case follow any grammer rules, they are very easy for me to write up, and my point generally comes across without the complete usage of law-binded words. Typing is just as easy as always, with the introduction of this quaters history notes, so it's usually pretty easy to start. Since it's notes, I don't have to use that many sentences or any paragraphs, which makes the writing go along much more smoothly. When writing large texts, such as essays, I take long amounts of time to type them up, because writing isn't exactly my strongest subject, and words don't pour out in strong, perfect sentences. Starting these up takes a lot of time to organize my thoughts and resources that are neccesary to the project. Programming has almost ground to a halt, since I not only forgot most of the codes and such I used, but I also have school now, and therefore, no time. When I do very rarely do some, it is rarely for an amount of time over 30 minutes, and most of that time is looking up notes I typed up and saved last year. When writing, I usually don't use any templates at all. The onlt type of writing I actually do use templates in is essays, because they are very neccesary. I try to use the "They Say/ I Say" when siting quotes, but it seems I make these to large due to my quotes size. My writing this year doesn't seem nearly as harsh as my writing last year, so it doesn't seem that I need to use the "flip/flop" template much anymore.

Highschool writing has pitiful requirements and grading compared to college writing. Highschool writing just wants you to write more and to put plently of information in, while college writing wants to see how you write and how you are displaying the information. Not to say they don't care about the other points of information and such, just that the way it is displayed is much more important.

The changes I am hoping to make in my next writing is to use less words for sentences, and to summarize my quotes. I want to cut my paragraphs to fit the topic sentences properly. Also, I need to make my thesis more apparent so that the reader knows exactly what I'm arguing. One more thing I need to work on is becoming less informational, because it kills the argument and bombards the reader with information that overpowers their senses.