The video Reflective Writing talks mainly about that reflective writing is a process. The reflective thinking is the most important part about the writing. Looking back on past experiences and being able to write about them is a good step in what a good reflective writing piece should be about, but that not what it all should be about. When people reflect they talk about what happen, where it happened.But a good reflective writing is the thoughts about during the event, and after the event. Also how it made you feel. Was there a struggle? Were you stuck in a situation? The main question is why? Why did it make you feel a certain way? Why did you do what you did?
Who did you work with to compose your life-choice memoir? Was this a good approach? I worked on the life-choice memoir myself. I wanted to work on it by myself because the whole memoir was about a time where I was the person making the decision. I didn't want anyone else's thoughts or opinions of what I should put it a memoir that is about suppose to just be about me. It makes more sense to work on it myself because it was my experience and no one else's. If I would have had someone help compose my memoir it would have been my mother. She had a involvement in memoir and she helped me make the decision, but she wasn't the primary focus in the story. The primary focus was "should I stay or should I go away". It was mainly on my shoulders, but she did persuade me to do what I was most comfortable with. What rhetorical mode and genre are you using? My approach for my memoir was to inform readers on my decision. I wanted readers to know that I wanted to be a independent person and I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. I think they will see the struggle and why I chose what I did. I wanted them to see why this decision was hard for me. I talked about the kids that I went to high school with that and how they were moving on to these universities and I just felt so out of place and I couldn't make my mind up. I informed them about what if I wasn't ready and went to a university and robbed my parents of thousands of dollars. When did you write this project? Good approach? I wrote this memoir a week before it was due. I wanted to write down all of my thoughts before I put it on to paper. I wanted to at least make sure I had a beginning, a middle, and an ending. I also wanted to make sure that the paper made sense. I didn't want my memoir to be all over the place and to make sure it made sense, so if someone would read it they would get a sense of what it is about. Through the week I wrote down my thoughts and idea's and wanted to make sure that what I was thinking was being written down on my paper. Why did you choose to write about your chosen topic? Good choice? I chose to write about staying or going away to college because it was the most recent struggle that I encountered. I decided I wanted to write this because it was a tough decision to stay home or learn to live on my own and know that I would be home sick. I was scared of making the wrong decision. I was scared of being on my own and knowing that this wasn't for me. I knew I needed more time to figure things out for myself because I struggled with the unknown. How did it feel to write this narrative ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? During the process I had the same feelings I was feeling the day I decided that I wasn't going away. After writing it I knew I made the best decision for myself. Since making the decision I feel like ever since I started college at home, I know I will be ready in 2 years. Since writing this I knew staying home was the right decision all this time. I do have "if only" moments. I've left out important details that I will included in my second draft that isn't in my first draft. I will write about some of the "why" questions in drafts to come. How will you revise your narrative? I will revise my narrative by adding more dialogue. I will write more about the conversations that I had with my mom about the decision of staying or going. I will also write about how I felt about the decision, and how I struggled with it most days knowing that every kid I went to high school with were going away to universities and I just wasn't ready for that big of a change.
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