Throughout highschool I had a livejournal and for a short period of time a xanga journal online. I loved having the public forum that all my friends (and enemies) could see. I posted random entries on my current life issues, some poetry, and I loved to comment on other peoples posts (I tend to be [...]
In looking through my classmates’ blogs (as well as re-reading my own) I had mixed feelings. I tried to especially pay attention to the papers that we all posted. Some of us came with a lot of writing experience and skill already under our belts. Others started a little more from scratch. But overall, I [...]
In Miller’s article, she discusses her “self” in an interesting way. Instead of following Elbow’s argument that one needs to put their “self” into their writing, she believes that the process and product of writing helps to form the “self.” In her writing process, she finds that the role she takes as a writer determines [...]
After reading the article on our generation being narcissistic, I was honestly a little offended. I have never thought of myself as being narcissistic and I didn’t like being generalized like that. So, in response, I googled “narcissism quiz” and took a quiz on the following website. Now, thinking about it, the fact that I [...]
In the Corbett article, he talks about how he had to write verbatim chunks of works from authors that he was studying as a beginning of class exercise. At first I read that and thought, “what kind of crap is that.” Thinking back to high school and forward to my career as a teacher, it sounded absurd. [...]
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As noted in the prompt, I’m one of the people that never thinks about race when writing. I don’t consciously think about race much at all, at least I don’t think I do. My race affects my writing somewhat in the sense that my race is a huge part of my culture. [...]
