Turn away, i'm just damaged goods.
Feel another, maybe it will feel right. Don't know what works, don't know faith. Maybe i'll dream of you and feel something pure. I don't know what pure is anymore. Maybe i'll dream of the wheel turning Spinning. Crashing. Asleep Where I wont be lost. @daydreamingphoenix
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This is a wholesome reflection on my time in English Composition I under professor Sabatino Mangini at Delaware County Community College.
To start off on a personal note, this was my very first class in college and hence has given me my first impressions. It was the class I was most excited for because I love to write and love to prove myself and be challenged by teachers of the literary field. This was honestly my most enjoyable class. while we started with an almost full room of students and by the end lost nearly half, I grew to experience some social connections and realized the potential that can be gained from starting a blog. I have developed my blog in a large amount of ways and hope to continue doing this on a somewhat regular basis so i can also build somewhat of an audience. I also found the professor to be three things: inspiring, entertaining and highly captivating. He seemed to have an excellent grasp on his class topic and many excellent innovative methods on teaching it. these methods all prove to be engaging and fun for the class even when it was night and sometimes lasted till 9:10pm. I was probably one of the only people happy with that fact but that is more of a reflection on my love for learning and writing. Anyhow Mr. Mangini provided great criticism and feed back on my work and kept his charisma ongoing throughout class which in turn kept me just as enthused as I needed to be even in assignments of the most boring topics. He did all this while under the stress of a concussion on top of whatever else was going on in his life and i find that fairly admirable. I found the work to be very engaging and innovative, especially the Life Choice Memoir. When I first wrote this assignment I hated both the work and the content I had created. The story I wrote was very unexplored and unvented for me so everything felt raw and everything felt like a migraine to write. As time went on and more revisions were made I grew more invested and wanted to open up more in this memoir. I don't usually dabble in my own life and this gave me more intuition to delve into myself and my life's experiences through my writing. The second formal assignment our research paper was equally captivating although more challenging because I don't normally delve into political topics. One of the ways I tried making this easier was by depoliticizing my topic and attempting to make it more moral. This helped me because my argument was easier to make emotional and not as boring to write (I find most political topics to be uninteresting.) I also learned the very boring requirements for citation so this was fairly useful even if I do end up getting a poor grade. I think one of the goals any professor should have is to make their student want to come back to class. I can say with absolute certainty that id love to have this class again and only wish it would last longer. I believe I am engaging in a practice that is both innovative and inspiring for me as a writer. It also can be challenging and pushes me to take leaps in my ability which can only be a good thing whether I do poorly or well. I also appreciated the ability to revise my assignments over and over to get the right grade and for some people this may be more urge to procrastinate but for me it only pushes me to progress and revise more, along with the need to manage my heavily busy schedule. This is my reflection for my Research paper on how America could improve its prisons. In this paper you will find reflection on various topics and information about my process writing the paper and my process later revising it.
Who did you work with to compose your research paper? Was this a good approach? -I honestly did not work with anyone on my research paper but did get some help on a sub topic with my Public Speaking teacher because I am doing a speech on a similar topic. What rhetorical mode and genre are you using? -In the paper I used modes of description, exposition and argumentation. I used description when I described certain parts of prison environments and developing locations like Bastoy and Gorgona prison. I used exposition when explaining statistics, providing base information about prisons and informing the audience with information from my numerous sources. I used argumentation throughout the essay when persuading my audience on the concepts presented in the essay. Argumentation was also key when needing to present my emotion and passion in an essay that would be somewhat boring without persuasive emotion. When did you write this project? Good approach? -I wrote it over three days in the span of a week. Numerous times throughout I had to add new sources and develop ideas. Due to this rush and inconsistency in concepts the essay may seem somewhat disjointed but overall I think it was a good approach because if I had stopped and then returned a bunch of times I would have felt even more disjointed and lost in my writing. Where did you write this project? Good approach? -I wrote this at home and in numerous cafes around Exton and Downingtown. Good approach although I wish I could do even more writing outside of home and in less busy hours. Why did you choose to write about your chosen topic? Good choice? -I cant quite relate to it much but I am passionate about how people feel toward others and how that impacts them in their own lives. Therefor I think it was a good topic for me because I feel criminals in America are treated harshly and with little forgiveness. I also thought it to be one of the mos emotional and powerful topics in the movie "Where to invade next". How did it feel to write this argument ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? -I felt great while writing this. I felt emotionally invested and am a little disappointed with my organization of certain topics. How will you revise your argument? -I will probably work on the organization alot in my second draft. My essay is sloppy and certain parts need more context and less emotion. This is a blog post about the music i enjoy listening to while I write both creatively and formally.
So when I'm writing I need focus and usually a calm but thrilling atmosphere to both inspire me in the moment and keep a constant consistent flow to my writing. What appeals to me most for this is blues rock, old school r&b, contemporary sound tracks or different forms of soft rock. It's overall a lot of tunes with gentle flows and melodies that bring some tranquil happiness to my dark mind. If I were to imagine my musical flow while i write i think it would be a waterfall of dark blue honey surrounded by Joshua trees, bright stars and animals cuddling around and about. I currently have a long playlist which i add to almost every day, i shuffle it around often but i think it has good value and quality when it comes to my writing and it could have value to you as well so feel free to check it out. Thank you for listening. have a good day. This is an honest post about my writing process. I plan to update this occasionally with no set routine.
Currently my favorite place to write is a local cafe or place of frequently purchased coffee or food. Sadly those are rather inconvenient for me as distance goes so i dont often have the opportunity to go to one of them unless on my day off which is about once a week. If I cannot go to one of these locations then i prefer my kitchen due to the frequent movement outside my large window and being in bed keeps me in a state of non-prosperous thought. I typically drink tea or water while i write and love to write while eating food. I do not know why but it seems to make me happy and focused. My parents often wonder why I dont like to do written work at home. To that I would say i feel trapped, bored and too grey. I need some form of movement, action, life. Now of course id hate the loud noise of a mall or any busy location but anywhere where i can see or feel the world moving helps. Heck if parks had outlets for laptops I would feel overjoyed to do my work in such a peaceful but lively setting. Due to my need for movement I often prefer to listen to music while I work. This music usually consists of soulful tracks from the early days of rock and blues but can also have various calming sorts of alternate rock and famous or unique sound tracks. I also write in a hurry in a sometimes unorganized fashion, which is odd because of my need for organization in the workplace and in my car. Sometimes I need to write in this manner simply since I have a lack of time in life due to working daily. Overall I enjoy my writing but sometimes when uninspired i feel a cloud of depression hit the paper that im writing which causes me to become sluggish. Id say this is alike to "writer's block" although i would call it more like pushing a "writer's wall". But I always try try again to overcome this wall. Hope you enjoy my writing maybe you can learn from my current process to overcome your problems. Ill be here if you have questions. Thank you for listening. Maya Angelou is a critically famed writer and has told many stories with a slight coming of age theme to them. These stories are taught in schools for both their great life lessons and structure in which she writes. One of her most famous novels, “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” has been taught in many schools because of it’s memoir nature and themes learned in the author's life. In this Blog i will analyze and state some studies on the excerpt from the novel known as “My name is Margret”
Margret made a somewhat costly decision in this excerpt. Breaking Mrs. Cullinan’s dishes purposely just to get a laugh seems like a unnecessarily risky move when in her situation she is practically powerless and can be harshly reprimanded at any point and time. In her situation I would take on the perspective of someone who’s more of a survivalist and not take any such risks. Especially when the people i live with and work for would never forget any flaw ive ever had made or any inconvenience i would ever cause them. However i cannot really blame her for making such a decision since she is very young and such reckless and spiteful decisions are common at a young age and can be learned from thanks to whatever consequences may happen afterward. I myself have made many decisions in my younger age that i have regretted as i’m sure all humans have. For instance once when i was fourteen i decided to be a pouty little adolescent and not wear my uniform to school. Went to Collegium Charter School in Exton Pa and it was a harsh requirement to wear a uniform on the daily. Something I hated since unless it was a gym day i was made to wear a tucked in Polo and khaki pants every day. Being restricted in such a way only gave me more of a desire to rebel against the social norms put for the in that school. Anyhow one hot summer basic day I was just plain fed up. I dressed in the normal uniform, even the tucked in polo that i hated so much, did all my normal hygiene behaviors and hopped on the bus to go to school. Now here’s the important part. My bus ride is an hor ride, i have no clue why since its never full but anyways I end up sleeping on the bus ninety percent of the time most of the ride. This time i did as well but instead of sleeping the whole way I redressed with the blue polo hoodie i brought from my home and the airy shorts probably made in some sad sweat shop in south asia. I was so happy. So relaxed. And getting off the bus with that anxious smile on my face only made things better. I was immediately yelled at and sent to the office to not do any work all day and sat there for a great many hours happy with the decision i had made. This is a collage of interesting quotes from myself and three separate articles. These quotes should display an insight to my the composition of my mind and writing. Each article is linked in case they strike your interest. Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product -Don Murray Quote 1: "Year after year the student shudders under a barrage of criticism, much of it brilliant, some of it stupid, and all of it irrelevant. No matter how careful our criticisms, they do not help the student since when we teach composition we are not teaching a product, we are teaching a process."-Don Murray Quote 2: "We have to respect the student, not for his product, not for the paper we call literature by giving it a grade, but for the search for truth in which he is engaged. We must listen carefully for those words that may reveal a truth, that may reveal a voice. We must respect our student for his potential truth and for his potential voice. We are coaches, encourages, developers, creators of environments in which our students can experience the writing process for themselves. Let us see what some of the implications of teaching process, not product are for the composition curriculum"-Don Murray Quote 3: "Implication No. 3. The student uses his own language. Too often, as writer and teacher Thomas Williams points out, we teach English to our students as if it were a foreign language. Actually, most of our students have learned a great deal of language before they come to us, and they are quite willing to exploit that language if they are allowed to embark on a serious search for their own truth." -Don Murray The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers -Maria Popova Quote 1: "When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through."-Ernest Hemmingway Quote 2: "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."-E.B. White Quote 3: "When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go"-Joan Didion Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life -Anne Lamott Quote 1: "If you write a long piece, and it's your first, and you're wondering if it's publishable, it isin't, even by a long shot"-Anne Lamott Quote 2: "There are probably a number of ways to tell your story right, and someone may be able to tell you whether or not you've found one of these ways." Quote 3: "When someone reliable gives you this kind of feedback, you now have some true sense of your work's effect on people." Self Quotes: Quote 1: Always focus on your main theme or themes when writing as to not become distracted by unnecessary things and ramble on unnecessary paths. Quote 2: Tea is always better than coffee for writing since it disperses caffeine much slower and with much less crash. Quote 3: When you can write where you don't usually reside, I recommend this because i feel bored and trapped in my location and my own head when i write in one place ive been too long. |
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