When we first got this assignment I was actually pretty excited. It didn't seem too hard and it sounded like it would be fun. The hard part for me was figuring out what to write about. I had to brainstorm a time or times when I had experienced literacy. This is something I have never really thought about before so it took quite a while to come up with an idea.
Lacy gave us six note cards. On card one I wrote about my characteristics as a reader or writer. Card two was a freewrite where I proposed my idea. Cards three and four I expanded on my idea. On card five I described my situation as a metaphor. And on the last card I wrote my final proposal for the essay. I like doing things in steps. These cards really helped me figure out what to write about. I veered slightly from what I had originally proposed but I think that was for the better.
I like to change things quite often but the revision process was challenging for me. I mostly just looked at the small gramatical errors and fixed those throughout my paper and fixed the sentences that were worded weird. I realized that this was more editing than rivising. I had to do something to make bigger changes in my essay. I started to look back at the revision activities we did throughout class and found a lot of ways that I could change my essay. I looked at my verbs to see if they were in the correct tense, looked at my opening line to make sure it was catchy enough and I looked to see if there was a point in my paper that lacked something. I wrote in vivid, deep detail to describe what I was seeing and feeling. I figured that this would be enough revision for now.
For my final copy of my literacy essay I thought it would be a good idea to pull sentences at the end of my paper and put them in the opening paragraph. Ya know switch some stuff around. This helped me expand on a lot of stuff. I tried to write more "in the moment" to see what that would do.
The revision process had me very frustrated at times. I would get to a point where I thought I had put everything I could into my essay. I knew that there had to be more I could do... I would take a break from writing and come back with a crisp, clear head to get working on it again. Overall this was a positive experience and one that I would (for the most part) love to do again.
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