Project Two Reflection: My Interview With A Writer
Project Two Reflection
My interview with Stephanie was unique because she’s my sister, and so our literary experiences are fairly similar. We read the same types of books growing up, liked and disliked the same writing assignments, and so on. We both learned our reading skills primarily from our parents, but our teachers were responsible for teaching us how to write proficiently. Stephanie and I also enjoyed reading as children, though we had (and still have) different tastes. Now that we’re in college, our skills continue to develop parallel to each other. Though neither of us have had negative literacy experiences, per se, we both share the fear that we’re not excellent writers. Stephanie considers herself to be a worse writer than average,
whereas I consider myself to be about average. Neither one of us have plans to write in our future careers, and neither one of us have to write for work now. School is the only place I write (and I do feel that I write a lot for my current classes) and it’s the same for Stephanie. Sure, we both enjoy reading for fun, but writing for fun is another story. As far as literacy outside of reading goes, both Stephanie and I love music, but neither of us write it. And, admittedly, I don’t enjoy reading for fun as much as she does- maybe I should try out Stephen King. Hearing other people’s stories and projects about their literacy development made me remember some books I read as a kid that I loved, and completely forgot. Overall, it was an interesting experience to see how different our classmate’s literacy development was from both mine and Stephanie’s.
My interview with Stephanie was unique because she’s my sister, and so our literary experiences are fairly similar. We read the same types of books growing up, liked and disliked the same writing assignments, and so on. We both learned our reading skills primarily from our parents, but our teachers were responsible for teaching us how to write proficiently. Stephanie and I also enjoyed reading as children, though we had (and still have) different tastes. Now that we’re in college, our skills continue to develop parallel to each other. Though neither of us have had negative literacy experiences, per se, we both share the fear that we’re not excellent writers. Stephanie considers herself to be a worse writer than average,
whereas I consider myself to be about average. Neither one of us have plans to write in our future careers, and neither one of us have to write for work now. School is the only place I write (and I do feel that I write a lot for my current classes) and it’s the same for Stephanie. Sure, we both enjoy reading for fun, but writing for fun is another story. As far as literacy outside of reading goes, both Stephanie and I love music, but neither of us write it. And, admittedly, I don’t enjoy reading for fun as much as she does- maybe I should try out Stephen King. Hearing other people’s stories and projects about their literacy development made me remember some books I read as a kid that I loved, and completely forgot. Overall, it was an interesting experience to see how different our classmate’s literacy development was from both mine and Stephanie’s.