Reflective essay

One of the first assignments that were giving to us in the beginning of English class was to be able to create a blog and write two posts weekly. The process of writing blog is Incorporated by having favorite and least favorite topics and posts, growing from feedback and responses from others and process of revisions; going from rough draft to a final. Within writing that post, we would have to reflect and respond to someone else’s post. Getting used to writing on a regular basis is a difficult thing. Many people are not accustomed to writing as much as the assignments. However, one of the goals that Mr. Sutherland my school’s English teacher wanted to give us was to be able to get used to writing for a long period of time (timed writing) and writing more often as well.




As I student in middle school, I was never accustomed to writing regularly, but by the assignments that are asked of us I am beginning to get more comfortable and have improved in small ways in my writing. The quick writes are small ways that helped me understand to try to cut back and focus more writing since we have a subject and we have to write for ten minutes without stopping. I have learned to try to structure my writing in ways that are simple but make very important changes in the writing, which help the reader, understand what they are reading.



The feedback from the class/audience has helped me in many ways since its constructive feedback that they may give for me to use. When writing the feedback the audience usually focuses on the subject, and what I have to think and say, but in few cases, they write about a question that was unclear to them and their thoughts that made it hard to understand what they were reading. By seeing some of my mistakes that were apparent in writing, I can reflect on how I should be changing and progressing.



In reviewing the posts on the blog that I have done I noticed that many of the subjects that my writing was relating to were to topics that had no point what so ever to situations that were happening in the moment. Rather I was writing about my thoughts about situations and ideas that are unappealing to the audience, which led to less reviews and responses from others. “The story is about a Native American teenager that lives on a small Spokane reservation, becoming aware of the contrast: favoritism of white people and the low self-esteem of Indians.” A goal that would help to bring my thoughts to be reviewed I will begin to think out of the box and step out of my comfort zone for the topics and ideas in which I write about, to more eye balling subjects.



In reading and responding the posts from other people, I was able to come up with that many people wrote about their person feelings and thoughts about a topic rather than something that happened to them or something that they have see. Those are my favorite types of posts that I enjoy reading. I like to read and get informed about how a person strongly feels about something that they notice. For example, one student had written about how they despise males who decide to sag meaning wear bottoms pants or shorts lower than expected at the waist. When someone is usually sagging, they are showing part of their behind and their underwear to everyone that passes by and notices. The student was wondering why the males had decided to sag and wear their jeans low and they also decided to wear a belt holding the pants at a level down near to their behind. the student also speaks about how peoplet generalize how a certain race should dress.http://aleahbaaqee.blogspot.com/Not only is the topic interesting in a strange way, but also it allows the writer to express their deep feeling about the community and their actions. Another, topic that I came across that was interesting and that many people responded and had thoughts about was that of a story writing about love. The student wrote about how their experiences and my thoughts as well combined to maker her feel and strongly believe something about that strong word people call LOVE. http://karenchavezlife.blogspot.com/2010/09/ilove-you-is-8-letter-word-so-is.htmlThis post was one of my favorites since I was part of a reason that made the student feel and understand the position in which they were writing about. I do not have a least favorite post since everything is unique in a way even though I may disagree with their ideas and thoughts.



One of the major steps in the process in writing that is to be done after the work of thinking of ideas and noting them down, is revision. revisions to a paper are the part that add and help the paper to become better it the ways in which they customize and rewrite parts that mislead the reader. another word for revising a paper is polishing, polishing makes the essay and writing better, bumping it to another level. Throughout the quarter and or year when creating my posts on the blog I did not begin to reread what I had written to check for any mistakes that makes them unclear. Some mistakes that I have now realized that I had done included; spelling, grammar, redundancy, and misleading the audience and making the central point clear within the writing.



Writing is one of the many things that can never be perfected, to a person’s view and perspective of what they are writing about in a paragraph, post and or essay. As a student writing is a difficult thing that I have to be adjusted to, and being able to do it on a daily basis. A goal that would help me and my writing to improve would be giving the reader more to work with and being straightforward, to be able to understand the main ideas. By taking away unnecessary details and topics that, lead the reader to a different approach on their understanding of the topic. To guide the reader in a way to understand may also include changing what I am choosing as subject, to something that I am more familiar with and that I could able stay consistent. Rather than choosing something that is important and irrelevant t, I will begin to choose more out of the ordinary topics that may provoke the reader to want to read and respond.