Well everyone, this is it! Welcome to my 7th and final blog post of my English I composition course. This last semester has been one hell of a ride with the Covid-19 outbreak. All our classes were switched to online courses, we are quarantined and currently partaking in social distancing. It has made this semester very hard but we are getting through it. Anyway, my focus for today's blog post is reflecting on my experience through my English composition course. How I am the writer I am because of what this class has taught me and how I plan to take what I have learned and apply it to my future writing. We were asked to examine the following links provided about Reflective writing and Genres in academic writing. I am also going to pick apart the acronym of GRITT, Gritt is something we used very often in this course and looked to for guidance.
GRITT stands for: Genre Awareness, Rhetorical awareness, Idenity as an author Theory of writing Transfer of writing I believe this acronym can be useful in whatever type of writing you are pursuing and has helped me immensely throughout my writing process in this course. Genre awareness is knowing how to use vocabulary, content, tone etc. to get your point across in a text. Genre sets the tone for your writing and it is a key aspect when it comes to good books, films, music Etc so understanding what the genre is when jumping into writing or a movie is important. Genre awareness can help you really evaluate your own writing. I never learned about genre awareness or the importance of it in my former learning environments. Now that I understand it and realize how it can affect my writing I always go back to evaluate my writing and make sure my genre is clear, that i'm using the right tones for the right parts, and that my descriptions and vocabulary make sense with my genre. The genre for my memoir is kind of an emotional non fiction. My research project is more from a political standpoint. Rhetorical awareness is important because it gives your writing a purpose. Whatever you write solely relies on how you write it when it comes to your type of audience. If you can't catch your audience’s attention or keep them entertained they won't continue to read your work. You need to “Know your audience” and know how to read them to write something that is going to keep them entertained. This course changed my outlook on Rhetorical awareness because I never knew what it was, I usually wrote things for me or because of an assignment, now with “blogging” and stuff I know that I have an audience that I like to write to. I applied this to my research project by informing, entertaining and using persuasive language to get my point across to my audience. My identity of being an author has never been anything like it is now. In the past I would write when I was told and what I was told. I never went off on my own to create a piece of writing because I felt I wanted to, it was all just school based. I kept a journal back then but barley wrote in it unless I was angry or stressed out. Now, I write when I want and write about what I want. I write when I need to for school, yes, but I also write to pass the time. I still keep a journal of course, but I write about my day everyday versus just writing when I am angry and it helps me cope with my feeling a lot better than it ever has. This course has finally helped me find my author identity, I found a purpose in this course. I figured out why I stopped writing and I found the comfort to start writing again. I lost Patricia (my author identity) a very long time ago and I am not going to lie, I never thought it would return to me so it is nice for me to see that the spark is back. Becoming a “blogger” also helped me reach my full writing potential, I finally had people listening and people actually interested in what I was writing instead of just receiving a letter grade for my work. I have never once found the actual joy or entertainment in writing anything. This course has impacted me by allowing me to express myself on my website by writing. I was able to make my website my own, even with following guidelines on what to write about, the website was all my own. I value writing a lot more after this class because I realized that it does let me express myself in a way that I can't in my everyday life. I can be whoever I want to be with my writing, I can also connect to any kind of audience that I want and that has made me find some joy and entertainment in writing, finally. School and going to class are important, you have to do it at the end of the day, if that's what you signed up for. Paying attention and wanting to learn are a whole different ball game. This course made me want to go to class, to write, to learn and explore all aspects that my author self could be. This course took me out of my comfort zone and made me write and publish things I never in a million years thought I would ever even talk about again. I plan to take all the writing knowledge I have learned and put it to a test in my future endeavors. I do not plan on just putting the pen down for the next 7 years, I plan on taking action and staying in touch with my author self. My writing process was always based on anger, bad moods and stress. Lately, it's based on my good moods, wanting to talk about my day, it's a stress relief when it used to be a stress cause. My mindset is clear when I write, I have a good head on my shoulders and I dont choke when it comes to getting my writing out there anymore. I write drafts now, I use scratch paper and jot down my ideas, I found my author self for sure, and I made her even better then she ever was. This course left a huge impact on me through everything, it helped my style, my self confidence in my writing and most importantly taught me how to "make meaning" when it comes to my thoughts and stories.
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Sabatino
5/12/2020 10:08:09 am
I believe this thoughtful reflection provides me (and hopefully also provides you) with even more insight into your growth as a writer in this course. I am happy to read that this course inspired you to reconnect with Patricia, animate joy and purpose in your writing, write in different ways (including different genres and media), and experience authentic audiences. As a teacher, I appreciate reading such a reflection because it reaffirms that our approaches to writing had a positive impact on you. So thank you for sharing this. I wish you all the best.
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