Throughout this semester I have changed my composing process, worked with multiple different writing prompts, and have completed various activities, such as working in groups and participating in discussions with my peers. This has helped me to understand and learn how to use my peers and other resources to aid me with our topics and improve our writings. I have also had to read from the book “Everyone’s an Author”, which was made by Andrea Lunsford, Michal Brody, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, and Keith Walters. This has all come to help improve my writing abilities and prepare me for the next course on argumentative writing.
My composing process has changed drastically from the beginning of this semester. When the semester …show more content…
The story about my reading experience consisted of explaining that I am an avid reader, and why. This helped me to improve in my writing skills by forcing me to recall some the experiences that helped make me into who I am, and write about those times I would never otherwise think of. The story about an event that caused me to change in some way consisted of how I became antisocial, this helped to improve my writing because, unlike the first story, I focused on something that changed me for the worse, rather than the better showing me, and have me talk of the cause of how it happened, and putting it into words. The third prompt gave me the article “Don’t Just Talk About Change. Show It.” by Mick Wilz as told by Patricia R. Olsen and answer questions based off of the reading. This helped me to use my reading comprehension and logic to discern the answers to the questions and to, afterwards have to make a story with a similar prompt of a struggle I overcame and how I can encourage others with what I learned from it. My analysis of an advertisement I used one for the restaurant Pizza Hut that had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on it to and how that could draw in customers by the association of it with the character. This helped my writing skills by making me use my logic to determine the cause of why Pizza Hut would use animated characters, and spend the money to get permission to use them, for their advertisements. All in all, these different prompts have helped me to have
My composing process has changed drastically from the beginning of this semester. When the semester …show more content…
The story about my reading experience consisted of explaining that I am an avid reader, and why. This helped me to improve in my writing skills by forcing me to recall some the experiences that helped make me into who I am, and write about those times I would never otherwise think of. The story about an event that caused me to change in some way consisted of how I became antisocial, this helped to improve my writing because, unlike the first story, I focused on something that changed me for the worse, rather than the better showing me, and have me talk of the cause of how it happened, and putting it into words. The third prompt gave me the article “Don’t Just Talk About Change. Show It.” by Mick Wilz as told by Patricia R. Olsen and answer questions based off of the reading. This helped me to use my reading comprehension and logic to discern the answers to the questions and to, afterwards have to make a story with a similar prompt of a struggle I overcame and how I can encourage others with what I learned from it. My analysis of an advertisement I used one for the restaurant Pizza Hut that had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on it to and how that could draw in customers by the association of it with the character. This helped my writing skills by making me use my logic to determine the cause of why Pizza Hut would use animated characters, and spend the money to get permission to use them, for their advertisements. All in all, these different prompts have helped me to have