Introduction to Weekly Writing Posts
- Lauren B
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- on Sep 04, 2022
Epistolary Explorations
1. What do epistolary explorations mean to you?
To me it means exploring the different kinds of letters that people can write. It also includes analyzing any media form like movies, books, or TV shows that use the epistolary format. Overall, it’s just learning more about letter writing and how different types can have a different audience or effect. It’s truly understanding the places a letter can come from and how that can change it’s whole meaning.
2. What are you excited about in this course?
The huge variety of content I’m going to be learning about as well as actually writing letters. I never really knew how many different types of letters there were until I filled out the google form saying what I was interested in. I had no idea open letters were even a thing and it didn’t even tough my mind that we could be working with coded letters. I haven’t done a lot of work with letter writing in high school so I think it will be really interesting to learn from true primary sources, especially considering that letters can reveal so much more than just an account or speech. It’s just really different from something I would’ve taken in high school and that difference really drew me towards the class.
3. What concerns do you have about this course?
Getting in over my head with the writing assignments and becoming overwhelmed with the workload and then getting behind on top of that. Mostly I’m worried that in a few weeks I’m not going to be enjoying the course like I thought I would, that would make me so upset that one of my first college classes isn’t anything like I thought it would be. I’m also worried about not being at the writing level that I think I’m at, which would really disappoint me and make me doubt my ability.
My Writing Process
1. What do you like most about your writing process?
I think deeply about what I want to write about quite often, which means I start getting thoughts that I could use before putting pen to paper. This allows me to have very fleshed out ideas in my head so when I actually sit down to start writing I have a lot more to say. Honestly, I’ve never thought much about it, essays were so formulated in high school I didn’t really need to think about my own individual process
2. What would you most like to improve about your writing?
I don’t believe in rough drafts which I want to fix. I have this need for everything I write down for an essay to be perfect and well thought out immediately so the idea of writing a rough draft seemed pointless and unnecessary. I would also like to use my words better, to be concise in what I’m writing but still show my main point. Changing the lengths of my sentences would also help my essay feel less monotone and more powerful.
3. How do you hope to grow as a writer?
I really want to work on allowing fully written rough drafts to happen before I begin editing as well as making essays more engaging. I think that getting my essay to feel less formulated and have a more natural flow would be really nice. Also due to my habit of overwriting I want to do less of that and not feel the need to keep a phrase or sentence just because I think it’s crucial when in reality it just repeats the same sentiment as a previous sentence.
