Skills

Overall, my writing skills have improved. Before when  writing a paper I would put everything that popped into my head while writing into the paper. Now I really think about what I am writing and I am not afraid to revise my paper as many times as it takes to get a good finished product. My feelings about writing have not really changed, I still enjoy writing I just do it a little better now.

Revision, revision, revision

For this assignment, we had to pick a piece of writing that we have already written in class and then revise it into a new piece of writing. I took an in class writing and turned it into a narrative. It was on my trip to Disney World. I am really glad that I decided to use this as my prompt. It is fun to write about and I enjoy writing it. The most important revision that I made was to change my introduction. My first two draft began with my saying how it was bitter sweet, because no on in my family went on the trip with me, it was just friends. Then ofter the peer editing in class, everyone that read my paper was unsure with how that introduction fit in with the rest of my writing. In the end I went with just focusing on how great the trip was and not the bitter sweet factor that played into it.

Revision Piece

For my revision paper, I decided to rewrite about a vacation that I took. The vacation that I am writing about is a trip to Disney World that I went on with some of my friends from school. The reason I thought that this would be a good piece to revise into a narrative, is because I can remember it so well and I thought that it would just be fun to write about my trip. I knew that that stories would keep readers interested and it would also be a paper that I would look forward to finishing!

Literacy and Writing

Literacy and being able to write are important to my family. I don't really think that it is especially important in any way, except that we need it to communicate. My family is fortunate enough to all be educated, so it's not a situation in that we have members of our family who are illiterate. It is more of a concept that is just expected and I guess in some ways taken granted for.

Short Project

For my short project I am doing a mass mailing that will reflect upon why music programs count. It is designed to show parents the different things that music has to offer so that they can help guide children towards  being in music programs. I think that the project overall is going well. I put in colorful pictures and text. It makes it seem more realistic and approachable. I am printing it in color and on card stock to make it look as real as possible!

Short project

For my short project I chose to do an ad. One that would go out in a mass mailing informing parents about music education.  The way that I am setting my project up is to get people excited about music education. I put in some real pictures from marching bands. It has repeating words to try to get the reader's attention and I also tried to put in some imagery so that peopel really thought about what was presented before them. Hopefully it turns out good in the end!

Research paper is almost done!

I think what I am most proud of in this essay is writing it in APA Style. Just because I never have before, so it was cool to do something different. I thought that finding the full text articles not available on google was the hardest part of the research, but I think that I successfully was able to do this! What I learned the most about myself as a researcher doing this paper was that I am very specific when it comes to how I want to do things. I think that my entire household will be excited when this paper is finished, because I have inhabited the computer room as my own private office.