ERRORS AND REFLECTIONS ( FINAL)

REFLECTING ON MY WRITING (Final)

During the entire semester there were skills that were developed, making stronger arguments, organizing my ideas, even improving if a little bit my grammar. However, there is one skill that I believe has been the most complicated to achieve and the most useful in my career, learning to use an image, like music or horror films, to explain both a topic and support my thesis. As an aspiring journalist and internationalist, writing is and will play a leading role in my life, and the type of writing associated with both careers, not only requires that I am able to catch the reader’s attention, but to explain serious topics to them.

When you try to explain to someone how a policy change or law may affect them in a news article, the key point is not give information to your reader, but for them to understand. And most of the time to do that the best way is to create a relation between the reader and the information, an image/ metaphor is one of the ways to create that relation. For example let’s try to inform someone how a rise in wheat tax production will affect them; if a say to in my article,

“The tax on wheat production has increased a 3 percent , making farmer dissatisfied with the government, ”

 Most people would not see how this relates to them or why it is important, however if I say

“Bread one the things that never misses your grocery list, however it will soon be an item that cost you more. Due to an increase in the production tax for wheat farmers will be force to charge more it. This means that bread making manufactures will be charging more for a loaf of bread.  ”

It’s a silly example but it illustrate how an image/ metaphor can be useful, when a person is able to see, via a loaf of bread or song, how a distant event or abstract issue plays in the real world, in their everyday life’s reaching them and helping them understand becomes easier.

TRACKING MY ERROR (Final)

I think that this semester, revising more what I’ve written has been a substantial help. Normally would write something read it while I progressed in the writing and then once after I was done, however I was still flawed. When you write it is easy to become enthralled, your attention is all in putting the ideas in the paper, however because the attention is focused on creating not form, sometimes grammar and organization suffer. So this semester reading the papers more than once after I’ve finished them and maybe a day of two after help notice those mistakes, as I was now reading the papers without the eyes of someone who just wrote it,  I was actually seeing my errors.