Creative industries

Wright Session 1 Journal INT-201A For many years I floundered as to what career I should pursue. The aspirations of becoming a marine biologist or an English teacher that I had held previously were no longer in line with my interests or desires. I wanted to write and work with books. One night I had the privilege of speaking with the owner of a local publishing company who was in need of an intern editor. That opportunity gave me a passion for helping authors achieve their dreams of publication…

When I read Anne Lamott’s experiences with first drafts and writing, I kept thinking about my own experience with art and design. While I have written many essays and drafts for school assignments, the idea of reworking something multiple times has never felt as complementary and fulfilling as Lamott writing career as my own artwork. For every piece of art I make, I have to start with concept designs and initial sketches. Each drawing, painting and design begins with simple shapes that help form…

After an evaluation of both reading passages, i find it much easier to follow, understand, and learn the most, from " Understanding college writing". However, thats not to definitively say that one is better than the other. My initial reaction to the former was a relief compared to the latter passage " Writing in college" by Joseph M. Williams.Upon first introduction to"Writing in college" i straightaway felt overwhelmed by not only the length of the passage, but how in depth the paragraphs…

In writing my paper for the Cause and Effect, Problem Solving essay, I came in contact with a few challenges of my own. One of my biggest problems was the time strain. With working at least twenty-five hours a week, a lot of time that I could be working on school is taken up. Another difficult task I encountered was the citations. In my previous years of high school, teachers only required the use of parenthetical citations; therefore, I was unfamiliar with all other types when writing this…

Semester Test In the begin of the year I took this class because I want to improve my writing. I need them to improve, so I would be ready for college level writing. Now that the semester is coming to an end I am reflecting back on the progress made. The way I approach writing as changed greatly since the beginning of this class. Before taking College Prep Writing II, I would just write a paper the way I thought it should be. After taking the class though I am now looking through my paper more…

“Freakonomics” by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven levitt was something that i was interested reading when i seen the title on Mr. Seal’s shelf because, I am in Economics, and I wasn’t too sure if I would understand everything in that class, so I thought maybe reading a book about economics in my english class could help boost up my knowledge for econ. This book was a great book, I finished it within a 3 week period, reading not every night, but catching up on the nights I missed out on by reading a…

One of the things that makes me as a stronger and more develop writer, is what my passion lies on, which is Filmmaking. There are also many different ways that you can be stronger as a writer, but what is the point of doing something if you are not enjoying it. A quote from one of my favorite actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, “The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it”. Therefore, as a filmmaker, I always thought that writing is a really good practice…

This semester I have grown significantly in many aspects, I thought I had already mastered. From the very beginning I had to improve to be able to keep up with the structure, my teacher created for this class. This made me grow in my skills to communicate ideas. For example, one major project we had to do was a Job Shadow. This project involved a rigorous search for potential shadows in different careers. Once the shadows were found we had to be able to communicate with them well enough to get…

The prewriting strategy that I like most is a combination of brainstorming and listening. It's a combination because I will record my ideas (brainstorming) about what I will write about. Then listing to my brainstorm in a form of a recording, it comes a combination strategy. I find this combination of both strategies to work well for me. Being that English is my second langue, when I brainstorming my ideas onto a paper I get stuck trying to spell a word and losing my train of thought. By…

Today’s poems were very interesting, I was very excited to hear my colleagues poems. Starting with the Family Photo poem. To be honest, I was totally sympathized with Einal’s poem. Even though it wasn’t a rhymed poem, and didn’t have many metaphoric it touched me deep inside. Since I know that she lost her father when she was in the 9th grade, so it just touched my feelings. The second poem was English as a Second language, only three of us read this poem. Shadi, Nour and I. actually, I liked…