Week 2 - Baby Steps9/15/2017 Throughout the past week, I have learned a multitude of new things, particularly in regards to becoming a stronger writer. As we watched the video that had to do with different college student's experiences in English classes, I began to realize that I may not be as strong of a writer as I had once given myself the credit for being. However, I did not take this as a bad thing. Rather, I was glad to have realized it now, so that I would not feel caught off guard when I began college English classes, as those in the video had felt. Moreover, I learned that there were many things in the world of writing that I agreed with that had not been said aloud before having watched that video. An example of this is when one of the students began to talk about how difficult it is to grow as a writer in a school classroom because many times our peers are afraid to thoroughly critique our writing. This thought helped me to realize why I had previously thought I was such a well-rounded writer - because the people around me never took the time to actually find errors in my work. The article that I found (located underneath the lower picture) has also helped to give me an insight as to how to grow as a writer. I have given myself the personal goal to ensure that I ask for specific critiques for upcoming assignments to ensure that I improve as a writer. Also, I learned more about myself as a writer throughout this past week. When we were given the reading assignment and our reading rates, I thought that mine was going to be easy to achieve - 48 pages a week did not seem very challenging at the time. However, shortly after we were assigned this task, I quickly realized how honest Mr. Schoenborn had been when he explained all of the personal excuses we often make as readers. I constantly found myself subconsciously making excuses as to why I had other priorities to get done before focusing on my writing. This ended up hurting my goals to meet my reading rate, which was very disappointing. Yet, I plan to do better next week to ensure that I get my book ready efficiently. I have found that as long as I make the plan to do better (and often times share it with no one, oddly enough) I am much more likely to get it done. Outside source: www.eadeverell.com/grow/
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