Final Essays #4
Essay Reflections: https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/10/16/journal-entry-14/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/10/02/journal-9/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/09/18/journal-entry-6/%20%E2%80%8E
Top 5 Journal Entry’s: https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/08/23/journal-entry-1/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/09/18/journal-entry-7/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/09/13/journal-entry-4/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/08/29/journal-entry-2/ https://pilar.wp.txstate.edu/2023/11/08/journal-entry-19/
Writing is a process because it takes a lot of strategizing and thought. Writers must use certain stages in their writing, stages like brainstorming, drafting, editing and revising. Each stage is important in creating a clear product. Brainstorming allows the writer to form ideas and get anything from their head, out onto paper. Drafting helps set the outline and boundaries for the piece. Editing and revising help clean up the whole thing. A writing process allows you to expand your thoughts and really connect what you are putting on paper. The process helps with focus and makes writing better.
When this semester started, I had believed I was a strong writer, but this class has managed to humble me. I realized that I enjoyed writing, but I was not very strong with technique. The essays we have done in this class have really helped me in growing as a writer. I would say my biggest improvement would be revising my essays and really working hard on just the draft bit. I used to believe it was just a waste of my time in a way until peer review was introduced and my fellow classmates were able to help me improve my drafts and prepare me for the final entry. Linked above I put my essay #1. For this essay I enjoyed writing, and it really helped me learn new things when it came to writing. Although my mistake was, I still was not fully onboard with revising my drafts, so it created a bit of a downfall for me. Essay #2 was definitely my favorite essay to write. Since I already had a main idea on what, Logos. Pathos, and Ethos was this essay went smoothly for me. I took in my peer’s corrections during peer review and really enjoyed it. I made the corrections and really got inspired. This is where I began to really realize how important is to revise my drafts before the final submission. Essay #3 was fairly difficult for me, I had a hard time understanding the prompt, so I went with what felt best. This version of peer review was with our professor, and I really enjoyed it. I was given really good corrections that I took into consideration and did them. I was not very sure of how my essay would do but after the corrections I made I was very sure of it.
This semester of writing has taught me a lot and I truly believe I’m a much stronger writer than I have ever been. This class has helped me to really connect to what I’m writing and allow everything to come together. I’ve also been able to connect to other people among me during peer review. I also was able to learn really fun things about some of my classmates. I can definitely see myself using all the new techniques I learned in my future class. I’m very glad my first writing class in college was with Professor Grossman. Every class was very comforting and a safe Environment that helped me strive in writing.
Journal Entry #21
This process was really hard for me as i took a while for me to be able to understand how to start writing it. But i did better at not procrastinating this essay i stayed on top of it pretty well and only struggled starting the essay.
Journal 20
” They are told that they’re needed because a child’s parents have severe and potentially dangerous problems, but also that they should support the ultimate goal of returning the child to those same parents” This quote resonated with me because the entire foster care system is just so corrupt and no one else ever prepared for what tragedy they might end up facing and there should be more awareness based on it
Journal Entry #19
” No one wants to be crazy, least of all truly crazy-as in psychotic” this line stuck out to me because mental health is a really big thing that’s under looked a lot of people will say offensive things without thinking about what people around them may be going through, such as stuff like saying ‘Texas weather is so bipolar” while someone next to them could be bipolar causing the person with bipolar disorder feel crazy and unheard.
Journal Entry #18
nice guys finish last
” What these anecdotes reveal is that the Predator/prey mindset essential ensures that men cannot be viewed as legitimate sexual objects, nor can woman be viewed as legitimate sexual aggressors.” this quote stuck out the most for me because it’s something not many people spread awareness about, a man would typically go his whole life without realizing he was sexually assaulted by a woman because it’s not a fairly common thing that happens and is not talked about enough.
Bad feminist
” I sometimes cringe when someone refers to me as a feminist, as if I should be ashamed of my feminism or as if the word feminist in an insult” This quote stuck out to me because I also tend to feel sort of like embarrassed when someone calls me a feminist and it’s not that it’s something I’m not proud of its more of society made the word define people as sensitive, my brother use to use the word feminist to insult me as a kid so it kind has just stuck with me, but it’s not that I’m embarrassed if any awareness i may have made.
Journal Entry #17
“Up until sometime in the 1800s, though, lobster was literally low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized.” page 366
For me this quote stuck out to me because I would have no idea about this, and I think it’s a fun interesting fact to me just because how pricey lobster is now and how prioritized it seems to be.
Journal Entry #16
I could have worked on the lack of motivation to make changes to my essay. I wouldn’t say I made much of a difference when it came to working on essay #1 just because I’m too strong of a procrastinator.
Journal entry #14
I had decided that I wanted to write my essay #2 about ASPCA just because I felt like the sad ads really had everything distressed over. I think I’ll make what I need to get by using this example, another reason I want to write about is because I do love animals and any time this commercial would come on id look over at my grandma and she would be bawling her eyes out, so in a way it’s like a sweet memory I have.
journal entry #15
“’I was so angry at the misdiagnoses for so many years,’ she says, “being told that it was anxiety, in my head, female stuff.” this stuck out to me because a lot of the time women’s concerns go under looked when they go to the doctor, for example my mom had been suffering from some horrible shoulder pain, the doctors kept saying she was fine and it was just sore, until she took my step dad with her and the doctors quickly found out that she has some type of rotated disk in her shoulder, I can’t quite remember what exactly it is but the recovery time for the surgery is 6 months.
Journal entry #13
“But without investing face-to-face time, we lack deeper connections to them, and the time we invest in superficial relationships comes at the expense of more profound ones.” I thought this stood out to me a lot because social media is the most fake thing to exist, people will make their lives to seem better than it really is, and it just causes horrible mindsets and jealousy between followers.