Monday, February 25, 2013

Reflecting on Revision

I thought most about the others' writing that they had conveyed a specific theme. In one case, it was racisim. Nothing really specific stood out to me, but it was interesting to see that they chose racisim. It was not surprising to me that they chose it, but it was intriguing to think that they would chose that specific route. I was intrigued because I really had not used the idea of racisim in my paper only stupdity and comic relief.  This specific student used racism to convey the specific part about the hatred which the student saw in the instance of the two men conveyed for President Obama.

I really did not that about what I was writing. I looked at the requirements and wrote what I thought sounded good. I have really no reason behind picking specific things besides that they were in the piece and because of this, I felt that they needed to be touched in my paper. I would clean any misleading statemtents up in my paper to reflect the main point of it. For example: "When most people hear the name: Adolf Hitler, they usually feel a hatred for the name. However, just because that one man at one point in history committed some horrible crimes, does not mean that all people named Adolf or Hitler will or have committed the same crimes or any crime at all. Parents are still naming their children Josef and that Stalin, another dictator’s, first name."
 

1 comment:

  1. In the future, I'd like you to reflect more on your own writing. You say, "I have really no reason behind picking specific things besides that they were in the piece and because of this, I felt that they needed to be touched in my paper." That cannot be true. You are a thoughtful thinker and writer, and I'd like you to challenge yourself to articulate what happens when you sit down to write.

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