Throughout this unit my identity as a writer and my confidence in my writing has continued to develop and improve. From the nerves I felt in regards to writing my first journal entry on the Loan and Muir quote about being a practicing writer, to the latest entry on a current news story I feel as though my writing has vastly improved, not only in its context, but also in my approach. One of the most influential pieces I read on writing came from the communications toolkit. Grellier and Goerke (2014), explained that writing was like a physical activity and in order to perfect your skills you need to do hours of work, as if you were trying to master kicking a football. She also explained that it’s okay to develop your work throughout an essay,
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When I began writing my journal I was so nervous and I didn’t know where to start. I hadn’t completed a single essay or formal piece of writing since leaving college in 2014, and realized that I may be behind the mark. This lack of confidence made it difficult to answer the first journal, as I was so nervous that I was going to get it wrong. Looking back now it does seem ridiculous as I am not sure how my opinion can be incorrected, especially when I did not even need to show anyone. It did however make me think about what I want to achieve from this task, my opening sentence “it is important to be continually practicing reading and writing as a teacher for many reasons”, made me realize if education is something I truly wish to pursue I would need to continue to improve my knowledge so that I could be prepared to teach students. My journal also highlighted that a lot of what we know about language is learnt from being immersed in culture, this causes language to vary between students and knowledge to constantly be learnt. Even things that seem as simple as TV, literature, and family all influence how we develop English (journal
When I began writing my journal I was so nervous and I didn’t know where to start. I hadn’t completed a single essay or formal piece of writing since leaving college in 2014, and realized that I may be behind the mark. This lack of confidence made it difficult to answer the first journal, as I was so nervous that I was going to get it wrong. Looking back now it does seem ridiculous as I am not sure how my opinion can be incorrected, especially when I did not even need to show anyone. It did however make me think about what I want to achieve from this task, my opening sentence “it is important to be continually practicing reading and writing as a teacher for many reasons”, made me realize if education is something I truly wish to pursue I would need to continue to improve my knowledge so that I could be prepared to teach students. My journal also highlighted that a lot of what we know about language is learnt from being immersed in culture, this causes language to vary between students and knowledge to constantly be learnt. Even things that seem as simple as TV, literature, and family all influence how we develop English (journal