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They Say I Say “What’s Motivating this Writer”

They Say I Say “What’s Motivating this Writer”

I truly enjoyed the first section in this chapter that is entitled “Reading for the Conversation”. The first paragraph on page 173 was all too familiar to me, “after some awkward silences, the class would come up with something we could all agree was an accurate summary of the author’s main thesis… the discussion would often still seem forced.” In my life, I have had many teachers ask this same generic question and proceed to stare at the class expecting…

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Writing Workspaces

Writing Workspaces

While reading the section “On Creative Places” in Habits of the Creative Mind, I was constantly thinking of my own workspace. “And even if we find a private place to work, there’s always another text message, Snapchat, or breaking news story to pull us out of our writing and toss us into the digital sea.” In my case this rings true, I feel as though I do distract myself easily. Normally, I am distracted by Netflix or YouTube, checking Instagram, playing solitaire. Basically,…

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End of Class Editing

End of Class Editing

During the few remaining minutes that we had in class, I did not want to start anything that I would need to keep working on so that I would  not lose my flow of writing. So instead of  adding details or rewriting sentences, I decided to go back and highlight parts of my literacy narrative that need some work. On google docs, I highlighted wither small fragments of sentences or whole sentences to signal my attention for when I needed…

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Literacy Narrative Revision Plan

Literacy Narrative Revision Plan

The first revision that I would like to address comes from Chris Sobral’s first comment on the rough draft of my literacy narrative: This comment was made in regards to a quote I had put into my narrative that was said by my teacher, Mr. Gleason. He had said, “You had plenty of opportunities to dig yourself out of this hole…” To elaborate on this, I could add some examples of chances that he had given me at the time….

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First Writing On Learning to See

First Writing On Learning to See

Personally, I work very slow, so trying to draw a self-portrait within 30 minutes did not result in the best looking work that I have produced. When it comes to my artwork, I become my own worst critic, an absolute perfectionist. In fact, I only ever fully enjoyed about three or four works out of the hundreds that I have created for the soul fact that the rest of the pieces were not worked to what I felt was its…

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Reading Rose

Reading Rose

Reading I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose was admittedly slightly difficult. The reason for this was not due to it being hard material or me just not wanting to read it, it was difficult mainly because I have had a lot going on lately and I am so stressed that it is hard to concentrate on any work. If I had not been dealing with bad situations, it makes me wonder if I would have had a much easier time…

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King and Alexie Response

King and Alexie Response

While reading Sherman Alexie’s  Superman and Me and the selection of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, one could learn, what seems to be very small on the surface, lessons that they could apply to their own life. In Alexie’s passage, Alexie talks about the exact moment he first realizes the purpose of a paragraph as he was teaching himself how to read. He says, “I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a…

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Thoughts on Dweck’s Growth Mindset

Thoughts on Dweck’s Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck’s TED Talk The Power of Yet had a very interesting take on how our mindsets affect how we perform. During her TED Talk, she introduces a concept she calls a “growth mindset”; according to Dweck, this is where one is able to recognize “that their abilities could be developed.” On the flip side, she introduces a fixed mindset, or a mindset where one is stuck in the thoughts that they will never improve their abilities and that talent sonly natural…

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