English in college has been a very different class from what was described throughout the Calverton School experience. The readings themselves are similar to the International Baccalaureate program that I faced in high school; however the writing style which has been introduced is still somewhat foreign. The understanding for writing which I was accustomed to in high school has become blurred and foggy; it seems inadequate for this class. The realization that academic writing does not exclusively revolve around a set structure, such as a five paragraph essay, was difficult to accept; and continues to plague my writing. From a perspective standpoint, what has truly changed is the approach to writing is that writing is not trying to always
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Yet I cannot seem to come up with my own project when I am writing; for when I do, I feel as though I am relapsing into my high school way of writing, and when I try to write with my own “project” in mind, I cannot get my mind out of the gutter, so to speak.
The most obvious change in my understanding comes from comparing my first difficulty essay about Bechdel’s “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” to my journal essay; I did not even realize that I had the chapter title as the novel title: “Alison Bechdel, author of The Ordinary Devoted Mother….” (Difficulty Essay 2). Getting it right in the journal essay, ‘“The Ordinary Mother,” the first chapter of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? could be its own graphic novel,” (Journal Essay 2) led to a much better comprehension of Bechdel and her work.
While I am not progressing as fast as I would like, I do think that I have a much better grasp of the concepts “method, practice, and project,” than I did my first couple of weeks. My ability to create new knowledge, however, leaves something to be desired. The third to last paragraph of my first formal essay has semblance to the direction I want to go
Yet I cannot seem to come up with my own project when I am writing; for when I do, I feel as though I am relapsing into my high school way of writing, and when I try to write with my own “project” in mind, I cannot get my mind out of the gutter, so to speak.
The most obvious change in my understanding comes from comparing my first difficulty essay about Bechdel’s “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” to my journal essay; I did not even realize that I had the chapter title as the novel title: “Alison Bechdel, author of The Ordinary Devoted Mother….” (Difficulty Essay 2). Getting it right in the journal essay, ‘“The Ordinary Mother,” the first chapter of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? could be its own graphic novel,” (Journal Essay 2) led to a much better comprehension of Bechdel and her work.
While I am not progressing as fast as I would like, I do think that I have a much better grasp of the concepts “method, practice, and project,” than I did my first couple of weeks. My ability to create new knowledge, however, leaves something to be desired. The third to last paragraph of my first formal essay has semblance to the direction I want to go