Reflective Blog-Revision

Because I wasn't in class last week, this reflective blog post is just going to be about some topics I know we've been talking/thinking about a lot lately, revision and editing.

As I continue to edit my literacy narrative, I find myself re-writing more of it than I thought I would. I've deleted and un-deleted just about every paragraph I've written. So while I was working on it earlier today, I started wondering if it would be ready by the end of the week. I actually had a mini panic attack about it since I haven't been in class for a while. I feel like my paper is just a jumble of random thoughts put together in no specific order.

But after calming down, I realized how much I've actually revised my work. I think my paper is a lot better now than it was when I started. I'm not sure how it is going to look by the end of this week, but I feel like this is the most creative I've been with an essay ever so I hope it works.

Also, I read over the syllabus for last Thursday and it seems like everyone was just editing with their writing groups? I'm sorry I couldn't be there to see the progress my group has made on their papers! I can't wait to read them! 

Midterm assignment

On Tuesday our writing group met at Atkins to work on our Midterm project. At first we were a little unsure of what kind of piece of writing we should use, but after talking to some of the other groups we decided on a piece from the Charlotte Observer about how the town of Belmont has a growing bike culture. 

After deciding on our piece, we went to go make a photocopy of it, which ended up being more difficult than we thought it would be. But once we finally got our piece copied we all sat down to read over the article and write in our day books. I think we were all able to make great connections with the article and our literacy narrative's. The idea of how culture can affect us and our writing was a major topic, and it was interesting to see what the rest of my group got out of it. All of our ideas about the article were pretty different. 

Since my literacy narrative is about how different languages have affected me as a writer and thinker, I chose to talk about how different cultures could also affect us. I said that growing up in a small town like Belmont would be pretty different from how I grew up here in Charlotte. I connected this to my literacy narrative by talking about how people who live in different places around the world might have completely different ideas about literacy and experiences with writing based on how their culture perceives and handles writing.

Reflective Blog: Revision is Hope

The piece we read for writing into the day last Thursday about revision really got me thinking about the different reasons to revise things, especially now that we are working on revising our literacy narratives.

I really liked how this piece connected revising literacy to revising our lives. I thought it was an interesting way to expand the idea of literacy more. We can use the methods behind revising a paper to revise our own life. For example, if you write a sentence one day and love it, but then later decide you hate it, you can delete it. Over the summer I got a new job and ended up hating it, so I quit.

It's interesting to see how different writers can find new ways of connecting literacy to other things in our lives.