Personal Narrative: My Journey Of My Writing
What a journey my writing has experience over the past seven weeks has been. I have grown as writer more in this class than I have previously. Writing has always been a challenge for me. Many people have heard of someone who just can’t get math, well that is me with writing. Back in high school there many times that an assignment did not get turned, not because I had not worked on it, but I could never get the ideas in my head to make sense when I wrote them on paper. I would get so frustrated that many ended up in the trash crumpled. For every assignment we have worked on I still get frustrated. What takes many, minutes to write and sound eloquent take me, hours to sound short and abrupt. But with each lesson we have gone through my
frustration level has been reduced. I still struggle getting my ideas to paper, but with all the encouraging feedback I have received, I feel more positive when doing revisions.
The “My Story” assignment is a good example of the growth I have gone through in this class. It took me several days, but I felt I had finally captured the essence of the assignment by using examples that conveyed who I was. Well, that did not work out exactly the way I had planned. Instead the feedback from my peers was my story was hard to follow and understand. This first thing I realized after reading my feedback was that I assumed my points were understood. I had not explained or walked the reader through the examples I had chosen. For example I presumed everyone had read “Catcher in the Rye” and knew what the story was about. Also, for each point I made I just started a new paragraph there was no transition from one point to the next. And the last thing I noticed when rereading my writing is how often I repeat certain words.
Furnished with a list of issue that needed work, I started my final draft. It took a couple of tries but the reason I choose my examples are now clearly defined. The transitions from one point to the other are now smoother. And I wore the pages thin on my thesaurus to expand my word choices. The end result is I finally feel like my voice comes through this assignment. It’s a voice I didn’t even know I had
frustration level has been reduced. I still struggle getting my ideas to paper, but with all the encouraging feedback I have received, I feel more positive when doing revisions.
The “My Story” assignment is a good example of the growth I have gone through in this class. It took me several days, but I felt I had finally captured the essence of the assignment by using examples that conveyed who I was. Well, that did not work out exactly the way I had planned. Instead the feedback from my peers was my story was hard to follow and understand. This first thing I realized after reading my feedback was that I assumed my points were understood. I had not explained or walked the reader through the examples I had chosen. For example I presumed everyone had read “Catcher in the Rye” and knew what the story was about. Also, for each point I made I just started a new paragraph there was no transition from one point to the next. And the last thing I noticed when rereading my writing is how often I repeat certain words.
Furnished with a list of issue that needed work, I started my final draft. It took a couple of tries but the reason I choose my examples are now clearly defined. The transitions from one point to the other are now smoother. And I wore the pages thin on my thesaurus to expand my word choices. The end result is I finally feel like my voice comes through this assignment. It’s a voice I didn’t even know I had