Post #11

I think because of this class, my writing process has changed drastically. I used to just do a little research and write a paper over what I found. Now, I get more in depth with each essay I do. I write rough drafts of each paper I do. I research from many different sources besides the Internet. I check over my writing when I'm done, making sure I didn't make any mistakes. These are just a few things I do now in my writing process that I used to never do, and it is all as a result of English 104. English 104 has made me a much better writer and thinker, and I am thankful I've had this class.

The annotated bibliography was a little bit of a struggle for me to write. The reason being not only did you have to summarize the source, but tell why it's a valuable source to use in your mini-ethnography. It wasn't the explaining of why the source is valuable, but summarizing the sources. When it comes to summarizing sources, I am terrible at summarizing. I usually put most of what's in the story in my summary. I use too much of the source when it comes to summarizing. I have a problem of condensing things down to the main points because most sources have a lot of good points, and because of this problem I have, I struggled writing the annotated bibliography.

I really don't like to write, but when I do write, it helps me learn better and helps me get things off my chest. Also, writing helps you with other subjects, such as history and science. All these things are the reasons I like to write. Writing is a great way to voice your opinion without speaking. It gives you a way to make your point with factual evidence from other sources you might've not known about until you started researching and reading different articles. The main thing I like about writing is it helps get things off your chest and helps you remember ideas you might want to use later on. For example, if you have a bad memory that bothers you, you can write about it in a journal and feel ten times better because you got all of your emotions off of your chest. As for the past mistakes, blogs would be a good example of learning from past mistakes. Let's say you write a blog about sports and you talk about why it is important in our society. You want to make an argument to someone about why sports is important, but you have no evidence to back it up. With having a blog, you can look and see what support you have to support your claim and make your point. In other words, writing is a great way of remembering things you might forget about.

I think writing will play a very important role in my future. I want to be a sports caster on ESPN or somewhere in the world, but in order to be an effective sportscaster, I have to be able to take great notes over big sports stories of the day as well as write columns and articles about specific sports stories of each and every day. Writing will make my job much easier and enjoyable. Without writing, I will have to remember specific details by memory, and that is not an easy thing to do. So writing will be a very useful tool for my career.