Thlog Week 3

This week was our first writing project which, in contrast with other assignments, I enjoyed doing. I have never been given an assignment with so much freedom and free will in which I can write. Before I joined this class, I hoped this writing class would make me a more creative writer, and this class is beginning to shape me into one. I have learned so much about myself as a writer and hope that throughout this course, I can turn into a developed writer that is able to write innovatively. I feel as though the group work we did this week was so informative. I not only learned more about my writing and ways to improve it, but through editing other’s papers, I found ways to advance and develop myself.  This writing project also made me much more familiar with different conventions. After completing two different projects builders to prepare me for this paper, I became much more acquainted with the skill of recognizing the different conventions with different genres. Something I struggled with was distinguishing between the topic and genre of my paper, because I tried not to become too specific with what I was going to write about. The assigned readings have also shaped me well for this paper, because it went over things that I found confusing or I missed during class. When I struggled with writing the WP, I went over the past articles we read in class to become more comfortable with certain confusing areas, like rhetorics. The reading, “Responding to Students’ Writing,” also familiarized me with the techniques and methods to peer edit student papers. The more I read about editing other’s papers, the more I became able to edit my papers better.  This week was a tough week with trying to perfect my paper, (even though there is no such thing as a perfect paper), but it was also gratifying to finish and feel proud of my essay.