Reflection

In this class, I wrote about a memory I had, and then I wrote about a nature trip and related it to Emerson and Thoreau. I was trying to remember my Mardi Gras trip and put it into words that would do it justice for my memoir. For my nature trip, I related the authors and the nature walk. I learned about brushstrokes while I was writing my memoir and I learned about Trancendentalism during the writing of the nature essay. I learned that brushstrokes make writing more interesting, quotes are a great way to back up opinions when you are comparing two things, and I learned that being verbs can make a piece of writing confusing if they are used incorrectly.

I revised for new ideas when I would read back over my pieces of writing and notice that when I read it to myself, the words and sentences didn't flow together. In my memoir, I revised and added in different brushstrokes to create more depth to my sentences. I also went back in my memoir to fix places where I repeated myself a lot. In the nature essay, I fixed my sentences by adding some of them together in order to get rid of short choppy sentences that didn't flow. I changed the tone a little bit and made it a bit more humorous than it had originally been for both pieces. In my memoir, I removed the word "stuff" because it's not a good word to use for writing because of the fact that it could mean so many different things. I also added some more description about the bus ride and my partner.

There were a lot of things that I liked in other people's writing, but there were a few that I liked more than the rest. Hunter, Dylan, and Claire all had at least one thing in their writing that I found interesting and better than the rest. I liked how Hunter started off the beginning of his Scarlet Letter essay. The beginning sentences were very attention-grabbing. Especially talking about the letters and their importance. Dylan also had a very nice Scarlet Letter essay. His comparison essay comparing Abigail to scissors was quite nice. The descriptions of Abigail were very entertaining and I liked them because they were detailed. They weren't one-worded, short descriptions. They had content, and fully described Abigail, her emotions, and her actions.