7/10/2015
Hey Friends,
Yep. I’m still on vacation. It’s been wonderful.
This one is going to be part of a specific assignment for class, so I hope I don’t bore you too much. (smiley face)
I’ve had to write an “I Believe” statement essay this semester, using some exercises such as freewriting to help generate a topic for the essay. And using a workshop group to help provide feedback for expanding and/or revising the final draft.
First off, I don’t think I had the traditional workshop experience. Only three of the people in my writing group, myself included, even participated in that portion of the assignment and out of that, my rough draft only received a positive comment. I don’t think that the person making the comment fully understood the level of feedback they were supposed to provide. The same goes for the revision process. Without receiving much feedback I will just have to evaluate my essay on my own before turning in the final draft. It’s perfect if you don’t get any notes back, right?
Overall, this has been a fairly enjoyable assignment, not too hard and not a pointless waste of time. If anything, the only thing about this assignment I didn’t enjoy is that I had to work on it during my vacation. Oh well, the sacrifices you make to be on a beach.
I have to say, I surprised myself with my essay. In that, it was a belief statement that didn’t occur to me as I worked on the first task of making a list of beliefs. Rather it was one that is both very important to me, and very personal. It made writing about it in essay form easy and free flowing.
Once I have a final draft, I’ll share it here as well. I’m pretty proud of the fact I remembered the topic I used. At the same time, it was so personal and profound that it did away with some of the ideas I’d already begun to formulate for how I wanted to write my essay. I had found a cute little essay entitled “Voices”, which used dialog between several different aspects of the subjects personality as though they were separate people. So if I were to write this particular essay again I would try and find a way to incorporate some of that approach.
If I have any concerns about this particular assignment, it’s the lack of feedback. Instead of getting other points of view about my writing, it will just be me and my own bias; and desire to get back to vacation type things. I mentioned the beach right?
That’s it for this entry folks. If you made it this far, congratulations, and thank you.
Good night,
D
Title: Voices
Author: Unknown
Location: "Free Narrative Essays - Voices." 123HelpMe.com. 21 Jun 2015
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