Reflective Account On The Writing Process
Reflective account
Before starting this unit, I did not think about my writing skills or did not know everyone has a writer's identity. Initially, I did not realise emailing or texting a friend would be considering writing. I just saw it as a way to socialise with others. Having read subject content, I now understand when I construct email I consider my audiences, reflect on my writing and also editing, which are stages in the writing process as Cremin and Myhill (2012) explain. Additionally, I have discovered that participating in personal writing has helped me to develop and nurture my creative literacy. Furthermore, the personal writing task has helped me learn how to employ strategies to produce a creative piece that expresses my inner thoughts and feelings. Having applied myself …show more content…
This was evident in my creative writing piece when I appeared to be in dialogue with myself, which Britton (1982) suggests are an interpretation of a writer’s emotion and experiences. Having analysed my own writing by rereading my work aloud, editing and redrafting, I now feel my writing flows more smoothly, and I can use appropriate tone and tenor (Grellier & Goerke’s, 2014). This knowledge will be useful in the classroom as I have gained personal insight into the importance of promoting sufficient time to engage my students in the writing process. Loane (2016) claims teachers who nurture their own literacy can help guide and support students to take ownership over their own writing. This understanding is important to me as a teacher I now have more confidence to co-learn and model the writing process to my students in order to engage them in writing. Because I am not yet mastered my grammatical and structure skills of writing, I will need to continue to read a range of multimodal literacy and take part in writing challenges to prepare myself to become a more proficient writer, which will help me to model effective writing skills and support my students to
Before starting this unit, I did not think about my writing skills or did not know everyone has a writer's identity. Initially, I did not realise emailing or texting a friend would be considering writing. I just saw it as a way to socialise with others. Having read subject content, I now understand when I construct email I consider my audiences, reflect on my writing and also editing, which are stages in the writing process as Cremin and Myhill (2012) explain. Additionally, I have discovered that participating in personal writing has helped me to develop and nurture my creative literacy. Furthermore, the personal writing task has helped me learn how to employ strategies to produce a creative piece that expresses my inner thoughts and feelings. Having applied myself …show more content…
This was evident in my creative writing piece when I appeared to be in dialogue with myself, which Britton (1982) suggests are an interpretation of a writer’s emotion and experiences. Having analysed my own writing by rereading my work aloud, editing and redrafting, I now feel my writing flows more smoothly, and I can use appropriate tone and tenor (Grellier & Goerke’s, 2014). This knowledge will be useful in the classroom as I have gained personal insight into the importance of promoting sufficient time to engage my students in the writing process. Loane (2016) claims teachers who nurture their own literacy can help guide and support students to take ownership over their own writing. This understanding is important to me as a teacher I now have more confidence to co-learn and model the writing process to my students in order to engage them in writing. Because I am not yet mastered my grammatical and structure skills of writing, I will need to continue to read a range of multimodal literacy and take part in writing challenges to prepare myself to become a more proficient writer, which will help me to model effective writing skills and support my students to