Welcome back to blog #7 in my English Composition I class. This is an assignment where I will be sharing my experience in this class as a writer. We had to read Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection and watch a video about reflective writing which enriched me with more details about this assignment. It was going to be a five to ten minutes video of me talking about my experience as a writer in this class. Due to Covid-19 and school becoming online we had the option of writing a blog instead of producing a vlog. I am going to be honest that I am not the best in being in videos, so I liked the writing option.
GRITT is an acronym I am going to be discussing and applying to my transformation as a writer during this class. G for Genre awareness. R for Rhetorical awareness. I for Identity as an author. T for Theory of writing and T for transfer of writing to future writing situations. I consider my signature in this course to be the first memoir I wrote, blog #5. It was about my trip to Rio de Janeiro to do hang gliding. I felt so into this writing, feeling every detail I shared with my audience. It happened during one of the best times of my life, when I was a flight attendant. It was challenging to keep track of everything I wanted to share and to portray this experience as close as possible to the reality. Genre awareness: in this class we learned different types of genres , from answering a Proust questionnaire, making a letter to my author self, composing a preface about yourself as a writer, an MLA research project, our narrative preface, blogs with different activities, and a narrative project. I wrote a memoir for the narrative project, It is different from the first memoir I just mentioned above. In my second memoir, I wrote about my friends’ death and how much it affected my life as a friend and how I changed in life and love. It was a touching experience . When I did my MLA research paper, it was a different experience because it was about Covid-19 and since it has been the latest news, there was a lot to talk about, I picked the anxiety side of this current situation. I work in a hospital and I saw the increase in calls to make appointments to treat anxiety. I do not like medications, I do take them when I really need them, so I wanted to give options to be home in quarantine and deal with anxiety. I really enjoyed doing this research project because I learned a lot and I am able to apply to my life. Using the MLA style for quotations was incredibly challenging at first but now I understand it. Rhetorical awareness: It is the study and practice of communication that persuades, informs, inspires, or entertains target audiences to change or reinforce beliefs, values, habits, or actions. Here are helpful resources: What is Rhetoric? / Exigence in Rhetoric (ThoughtCo.) / Rhetorical Purpose / Rhetorical Modes. I used this awareness in my MLA Research Project to persuade people how to cope with anxiety at home without medications and abuse of substances or drugs. I recommended a variety of therapies and activities to do at home. Identify as an author: my experiences in the past with writing were in my native Spanish. I do not know if they count as my writer experiences but in a way, I think there is a connection between the languages I know and my ideas to write. The good thing is I do not think in Spanish anymore when write in English, but my brain unconsciously keeps telling me words in a wrong position. However, I always like to write when I have the opportunity. I did not practice that much because of a busy life. Having this class helped me to remember and take care of that writer I abandoned for years. Also in this class I wrote a letter to my author self; I named it Super Valentina. In that letter I told myself how we will be working together to not lose the connection between us. Our relationship is much better now. Also being a blogger, having my own website for the first time in my life, posting my life experiences, giving the world details that I do not usually share with someone make me more confident. Now I pay more attention when I read people’s opinions, and I see how they redact it and think how I would it. Doing the research project was challenging, and I got upset so many times, I think I spent a long time trying to figure out what to recommend to people. Also I found out about a therapy that I did not know exists. I consider my author self as emotional and detailed and I like to describe everything. Writing makes me feel relaxed. Theory of Writing: during this English Composition I class, I learned how not to be afraid or lazy of expressing my ideas on a piece of paper. It also helped me with my Psychology class when I had to write essays and do a research project as well. I found myself going back and I took care of that writer just in a different language which is more challenging. I will not stop taking care of having this feeling. I could say I met my goals with this class. Every time I write I get disconnected from real life and it is something hard to do. I conclude saying my theory of writing is the communication between yourself and your author self, in front of the world by sentences making meaning. Transfer of writing to future writing situations: I always wanted to publish a book, I just did not know about what until in this class I found the topic for my book, I will share it in the future. I am planning on using all I learned, from the process of persuading to giving that book my identity. I am going through a hard situation in my life right now and I decided to write about it. I started already putting my pain in words instead of crying, I can even do a memoir counterfactual for my book since I enjoyed the way I felt when I was composing one. I will apply my knowledge to it. I will also use all these genres throughout my life in college and work. I see myself in the future sharing with others all I learn and showing my book together with this portfolio.
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