Monday, January 13, 2020
Ariel's Academic Writing Self-Assessment
With academic writing, I'm always a bit reluctant to start. If I don't have a passion for what I'm writing, or if I just can't grasp the concept I'm supposed to write about, then I have to convince myself to write it. Academic writing (like literary theory or analysis) is something I usually don't feel willing to write about because of this. It's the fact that I don't really get a choice to write, that it's difficult for me to understand, and the lack of freedom makes a part of me defiant until I can force myself to just write it and move on. One exclusion would be when I had to argue in Engl 293 why The Bath and A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver should be included in an anthology. It was easy to explain and argue because I chose a topic I loved. I'm usually pretty good at plotting out what to write, drafting the essay's structure, and tying together all the ideas at the end. I know how to write. I just struggle writing about something I'm not passionate about or that I don't really understand.
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I feel that too! My writing is so much better when I'm really passionate about the topic I'm writing about too. When I'm not, I spend way too much time outlining and "preparing my writing" because I just put off doing it! Hopefully I'll be better about it in this class :)
ReplyDeleteSame here! It's so much easier to write about something that actually means a lot to me, or at least sparks my interest. I definitely feel like there can be too many restrictions on papers where the topic is assigned and not chosen by the student.
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