Over this past semester my focus as a writer has been organizing
thoughts, procrastination, and entertaining an audience. At the beginning of
the semester my blogs consisted of choppy word jumble and obvious and
procrastinated assignments. However, being able to have peer comments and
constructive feedback I realized it was time to step up my game and put forth a
little effort.
Only a few writings into the course and it was obvious my
lack of efforts and organization had been improving. Starting with the essential
post of Organizing
Thoughts where I asked for advice on how to improve the flow of my
writings, and was suggested to use the free writing method, with each posts to
follow I showed more and more improvement. I also found with free writing my
post increased in length every time. Although each post built off one another
in improvement, by the very next post I
Have to get This Done!...Tomorrow showed immediate improvement. Finally,
after several post to practice Shitaintclear
and Into
the Future showed the most improvement. With each post it is apparent that
I had also improved on procrastination. Each showed improvement on length and
value to suggest more thought and time had been put into the assignments.
After improving and the two main issues of presenting my
ideas and giving my writings more thought and value I really wanted to turn my
focus to entertainment. In several of my posts I wanted to capture my readers
and keep them coming back each week. Shitaintclear
and Into
the Future again are the two best examples of fun and interesting posts. I
would also add One for One
as a great post even though it was a picture assignment. In this particular post
there may not be a written story however, I believe to layout and contrast of
the photos make the post a fun and vivid post.
With all the positives I have gained in each writing I am
still falling victim of poor editing and proof reading skills. For example,
there is probably evidence of this problem in this very post. I do proof read
and edit each writing, but my brain knows what I thought I wrote and I am oblivious
to the mistakes each time. Although, I have tried proof reading after taking a
break and that has helped a little I still have miss used commas and silly
mistakes. I would like to keep working on this problem by practicing with
commas more. However, proof reading I feel I will always need the extra read
through by a peer.
