This is it. My final blog for this Eng. composition course. For this blog assignment, I am going to write a reflection of my writing throughout this course. I am writing a blog post, rather than creating a video because I absolutely hate being on camera. As a photographer, I’m always on the unseen side of the camera and I plan to keep it that way.
When this course first began, I had the same basic attitude towards it that I’ve had with all other composition courses. I was annoyed that I had to take this course. Why did I need to take an english composition course for a nursing major? Especially when I score high enough on my SATs to be exempt from any placement testing. I thought I had proven myself competent enough to be done with it forever. Because I know as a nurse, I’m not going to be writing blog posts about my day at the hospital, or memoirs to patients that I meet. I didn’t want to be stuck having to write about whatever a professor told me to write about. That’s not really how I roll. Then we were given our first assignment, to fill out the Proust Questionnaire. In the questionnaire, one of the questions asked, “If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?” I answered that I didn’t like how closed off I can be and it’s something I don’t want my children to learn from me. Answering that question was my first step towards changing it, and I tried to continue to try and change it with my writing this semester. I tried to not abide by my general “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule: If you’re not asking, I’m not telling. That was especially true for my blog post, “Composing an Emotional Scene”, and even more true for my memoir which I really went far out of my comfort zone to write. So far out, that I honestly wouldn’t have been able to read out loud yet. Just hearing someone else reading it was enough to skyrocket my adrenaline, causing me to visibly tremble. But, I had a deal with myself to try and stop being so closed off. If in the future, I take (or have to take) another writing course, I’m going to hold myself to the same expectation that I did this semester to go out of my comfort zone. I’ve got a lot of good shit say, whether it be from personal experience or opinions (like our research project), it’s just a matter of actually sharing it with people. Or even conjuring up the drive to do it. Like right now, my daughter won’t let anyone else hold her without screaming her head off, so I’ve got her in on arm, rocking her, while I type with the other. In previous classes, I wouldn’t have cared enough to do write this with as much effort as I am now. But this class hasn’t left a bad taste in my mouth as bad as the first time I tried celery.
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This week, for blog post #9x we were given four texts to read and annotate- To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson), Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee), and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda). All of the texts relate to our own discourse community. Discourse community is a group of people that possess a similar set of goals and values who use forms of communication to achieve those goals. I decided to create two found poems, one from To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson) and the other from What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee), which you can find below
This blog post is to assess the “well-being” of my webpages and narrative draft pages and whether each of them are suffering, sustaining, or flourishing, as for stating why each of them are in the state they’re in and what I’ll do to fix it and by when. For my ‘Home’ page, I believe it’s sustaining. It gets the point across but I need a few of my intrinsic goals for this class listed. I will try to figure out just what those goals are and try to get them added to the page before My ‘About’ page I would say is flourishing. I have completed all that was asked for the page and it doesn’t need anything more. ‘Narrative Project” page was sustaining and needed just a few tweaks, that have since been fixed. Other than those, it is flourishing and I think it does not need anything else done to it. ‘Blog’ page is flourishing. I am missing a few tiny details and one blog is missing. Other than adding those, there is nothing else to be done on my ‘Blog’ webpage. As for my ‘Contact’ page, it’s flourishing and has everything that it needs in order to contact me, if someone so desires. |
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