Writer's Journal #6

I am excited to start the narrative analysis more than anything else. However, I am nervous about finding images that fit well with the theme I may be writing about and making sure I get all the citations correct. I always cite my work but usually it never mattered how correct or not correct the actual citation was as long as people knew that was someone else’s work. Since this is an English class, I need to cite everything accurately. I am also a little nervous about the peer reviews. I hope that what I write, my peers will be able to understand and give me good pointers to improve my writing. Hopefully there will be hardly any negative feedback. I do believe that the whole writing process I will be doing is a bit too time intensive as well as labor intensive but afterwards, it will feel amazing having completed it. I think anything with proper planning can be done and I will be treating this assignment likewise!

I think the most interesting technique we will be doing in this analysis is peer review. That is something I almost never have anymore and so I am pretty excited about that. My peers are the people that vary in their ways of writing and so getting a couple of them to read and analyze my writing will not only give them some ways they could improve their writing but also ways that I could improve my writing. When I do peer reviews for other’s writing, it will help me maybe get some ideas on how I could improve my own analysis. A good example could be the fact that the person I reviewed uses great adjectives to draw better imagery. After reading their essay, I look over mine and decide where I could maybe draw the picture a little more clearer for my readers. Something so small like that could make a big difference when the reader can visualize every detail. Doing any more work on improving my writer’s project will take time but I think I will want to put in as much work as I can to perfect my project and get reader’s to love my project.

There will be circumstances when I may not plan and revise but some where I will. There are harder concepts to put into words and there are very easy ones. The harder ones will require more work and more planning as well as revising. When I am explaining my narrative, it will require more detail and work because my readers were not present at the time the event happened. What I know is not what my readers know and so that means I need to include more details such as what was happening, who was there, and any time relevance. Other things like maybe some concepts we have learned, I will not need to do any planning and revising on such as including multimodal elements. Everyone in the class understands what they are and I can just say a sentence or two if I would like to include it. It is probably unnecessary though.