What I Learned In Writing For A Class

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To learn more about the subject I may read, research, or analyze. When a person begins writing, it can be for a class, for pleasure, or simply just to conjure up a feeling. When I write, it could be for any of the three; set forth to learn in each of my classes; draft poems to channel feelings and write about how something makes me feel; and create a literary work to evoke an impression within the reader that I possess creativity or merely, to make my audience and myself notice my style. Consequently, when I write for class I attempt to explore the potential knowledge I can learn. Accordingly, while writing about a novel, I may learn an important symbol that I did not pick up until I read it a second time. Writing about a research topic I am bound to learn something I did not know prior. …show more content…
Most of the time I write poems, but I also have heaps of notes in my phone about random thoughts and feelings. Sometimes during my meditation, I will be compelled to pause momentarily so that I may write a poem about how the morning breeze feels or how the sun rises behind the mountain and warms my body. Writing for pleasure helps channel my emotions so that I may look at them at another time and still understand how I felt. If a person creates an emotion within me that should not be expressed in that moment, such as anger, I will write a simple note expressing how that action made me feel, why it upset me, and what I can take away from this action. Ordinarily, when I am looking at my writings I notice things that I did not notice when I was writing them. Correlations between rhymes, limericks, and other literary elements appear upon further examination. Even when I am writing for pleasure my individuality and style peeks

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