ERRORS AND REFLECTIONS ( MIDTERM)

Reflecting On My Writing (midterm)

Examining our individual writings process can be challenging, it is at least for me. For no matter how detach I am to the subject of them, they are my babies, ideas and arguments that required massive neural work, thousands of synapses, to come into existence. I am aware that in some places down the road they become foggy and unclear, leaving the reader wondering for a paragraph or two. And it is precisely that which I’ve worked on the hardest for the revision project, maybe in comparison to the first paper the difference is not as great, but looking at the final draft of the second paper,- which, I decided to revise- the improvement is there.  The thesis and arguments in them self have not been precisely the problem so far, it has been matter of delivery. While the thesis is clear from the beginning and the arguments support it, sometimes I wonder off leaving the arguments hanging.

As previously mentioned I’m not keen on self evaluation, and no matter how many times I look over the last two months, I find progress. I can’t say that the work deserves and ‘A’ because the second paper left a lot to be desired, none the less the first and now revision have, if not fineness in form, worth in content. In regards with the use of quotation, while the ideas of the authors are been discussed and are basically the backbone of all the papers, there could have been more of them.

Over all the major faults of the papers have been in grammar and in the slow progress of solidifying and concluding the ideas presented.

Tracking My Errors (Midterm)

In all honesty, I believe that they major problem in my papers so far has been grammar. Be it the initial misplacement of ‘;’ or the abuse of it. The semi-comma has been hunting me down for the last two months, enraging both those who read what I‘ve been writing and that who make corrections, me. Other common mistakes have taken place, more like not taking place, while doing the proofreading, which has been close to none existing for the rough drafts.  This has resulted in atrocious typos, incoherent sentences and overall more work to do later. However, I consider that improvement has been made, perhaps not table turning, jaw dropping ones, but slowly progressive ones, that seem to be sticking for the long wrong. There are many things that I probably have not yet become aware off, but which will certainly get caught in due time, and as with the evil semi comas I’ll try my best to eliminate them permanently. There is always room for improvement and I just hope to make it. Progress. 

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.

ENJOY A RIDE WITH WRITING

Please enjoy this interesting ride at writing about some of those big issues of our world for  ENC 1102.