Professor Cline,
My biggest challenge of this class so far has been how inadequate I feel at writing papers. It is hard to be motivated about assignments when you are pretty sure your writing sucks! I really struggled with all of the technology required in the beginning just to get started in the class. With that in mind I got a little behind in the beggining and I am proud that I have been able to bring my grade up to a B during the first part of the course.
Honestly I love to read and when I have the time I read a great deal. The main way that the readings for the class have effected me have been to irritate me in reading something that I have no interest in whatsoever when I have a pile of books beside my bed that I would really love to have the time to delve into.
I have enjoyed literary analysis very much. I enjoy being able to look into a writing and find the meaning of it. Sometimes I struggle with the idea that any writing could have a muliple of meanings. In reality no one really knows what the author was expressing without a written expression from the author about the text. I think it could be taken in many ways depending on the reader and I find it uncomfortable expressing the authors intent with out really knowing it.
I would really like to write a paper I could be proud of in this next part of the semester. I am going to work on that. I do feel that the content of my papers are sometimes detracted from due to trying to meet the page length goals. I would like to impove my overall readability and flow of my papers. Although I think I have good ideas for my papers I like to think outside the box and not go for the status quo, maybe going for a bit more standard would help me write better papers. I would love to slide my grade up towards an A but would be proud if I could finish with a good strong B.
I really appreciate your feedback on my papers and writing. I also appreciate that you have taken my papers for what they are and tryed to help me improve on them. I acknowledge that although I don't write great essays I can assess that mine aren't very good.
Sincerely,
Carli Crowley
I find that I am in the same situation as you in a few cases. I have trouble writing papers, especailly litarary analysis, and finding the meanings and arguements to support my theories. I think that it's good to have multiple opinions on an author's writing because it's about being able to find arguments to support your argument. It doesn't matter whether that is what the author intended it to be. All in all I hope you can get your grade up. Good luck
ReplyDeleteI'm in agreement with you as well, Carli. It seems like the main thing to remember in literary analysis is not that you are right, but that you are writing. It's very frustrating, especially when writing voluminously about subjects that hold little or no interest for you. At least there are plenty of people with opinions that you can quote to help back up your viewpoint! Good luck on the second half of the course.
ReplyDeleteHi Carli,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on the papers. It is really hard to write about a subject that you dont really care about. However i think that many times througout life, you have to write things that have absolutely no intrest to you, however may be very important to others. Thats how i feel about these types of assignments, you just learn how to do the best you can, and hope for the best.
Good luck on the second half.
John