Reflective Letter
Here I will post drafts of my reflective letter. Our professor asked us to write about our writing. Reflecting on our processes and products so far.
Alicia Wetling
ENG 100 12:10pm
Assignment #2: Reflective Letter
Draft #1
Dr. Professor Sabatino
After reflecting back to all my writing so far throughout the semester; I realized that my view of writing has changed. This is because I never really practice showing scenes. Reading the Glass Castle and the Miracle Women also helped me understand: context, text, and subtext better. All the writings, readings, and even videos have definitely helped me realize how important these are to writing.
My time management was pretty much all over the place. I got my writing done where ever, whenever I could. Some either at night when my daughter was in bed or late afternoon; while she was watching cartoons getting ready for her nap. The rest of my written would be done between my classes. I would go get a coffee and go to the learning commons and type on the computer. There were sometimes were I just couldn’t get into my writings and I would just wait so long procrastinating to do them. This is the reason my grade is hurting today.
To me making our Weebly page was fairly easy. I always did well with making websites in school. Our professor navigated through; teaching us how to use it. After setting up the basics of our website, he told us we had to blog throughout the semester. Personalizing it was a difficult step for me. I wasn't sure what pictures to use to represent my writing. I recently just went on Google searched writing images and uploaded three to my websites headers. I feel fairly comfortable with them and do they are relatable.
I wasn't so sure about the website being public and everyone seeing my writings, I get nervous even letting a professor. But I am over that now, I am totally fine with it. Blogging at first was challenging because I normally do not write about my week or even days. It reminded me of journaling, which is a healthy I just never do it. It was definitely a good way to help with further assignments that were due. I haven’t done too much since the semester started so I didn't have much to write about. Being a mom I am not as fun as I used to be, I like to go in early. I pretty much stayed with family because my friends end up on dummy missions.
Writer’s roundtable I felt like was very useful after I had completed it. It helped me understand Creative fiction and some showing scenes. I also got a better look on how other writers have a difficulty writing. My favorite story was “How can you create nonfiction when reality comes to call” by Carolyn Chute. I feel as though I related to her the most. I enjoyed her theme of time slipping away because I feel this way often. My least favorite was “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury. He was the least relatable but I did like some of his concepts he had gotten from other writers.
Our blog for familiar and strange places was a little weird, well at least the strange place part was. I have never written anything like that before; it was interesting to see where my mind took me and what I wrote down. I didn't try to fight any of it; I just let the ideas flow and flow writing them down as they came. I ended up just keeping it as it was. The familiar place was obviously easy I wrote about my grandmother’s house and how crazy it is most time.
The blog post where we had to take a translate telling into showing. I chose to translate the beginning of my cousin birthday party. I think this was the easiest blog I have done yet. The reason is because there was so much going on and it was like a movie scene. Five girls all dressed up crossing the street to the bar is just an easy visualization. Since it was cold that night, it made it easier to explain the little things. Like us being bundled up and seeing our breath in front of us. The wind blowing so hard that we were all rushing to get to the bar into the warmth.
When I wrote my Creative Nonfiction Essay It was hard for me to find out what I wanted to write. I racked my brain for the days trying to find something out. Finally I decided to write about my daily battle with depression. I did not write about this in my blogs, because I wasn't comfortable enough to. I was in my thoughts one night and just typed everything I felt on a Word document. I talked about my struggle to get out of bed on some days; and how I envy people that are happy. The reason behind my depression is because; I went through a big change in my life about two years ago. I had my daughter and a couple weeks later lost her father. I knew that my essay was all over the place. Finally meeting with my professor made me feel better. He helped me go over my essay. He said that I had a strong theme. He suggested I add more background information, which was about Nick and me. I took me a while to go back and revise because I didn't want to go back to the topic. I kind of felt like I just vented in the essay and that was that. One night when my daughter went to bed, I knew I had to finish I went back and rewrote a whole story about our past and what happen. I felt better about my essay after I revised it, now I think it is more understandable.
Alicia Wetling
ENG 100 12:10pm
Assignment #2: Reflective Letter
Draft #2
Dr. Professor Sabatino
After reflecting back to all my writing so far throughout the semester; I realized that my view of writing has changed. This is because I never really practice showing scenes. Reading the Glass Castle and the Miracle Women also helped me understand: context, text, and subtext better. All the writings, readings, and even videos have definitely helped me realize how important these are to writing.
My time management was pretty much all over the place. I got my writing done where ever, whenever I could. Some either at night when my daughter was in bed or late afternoon; while she was watching cartoons getting ready for her nap. The rest of my written would be done between my classes. I would go get a coffee and go to the learning commons and type on the computer. There were sometimes were I just couldn’t get into my writings and I would just wait so long procrastinating to do them. This is the reason my grade is hurting today.
To me making our Weebly page was fairly easy. I always did well with making websites in school. Our professor navigated through; teaching us how to use it. After setting up the basics of our website, he told us we had to blog throughout the semester. Personalizing it was a difficult step for me. I wasn't sure what pictures to use to represent my writing. I recently just went on Google searched writing images and uploaded three to my websites headers. I feel fairly comfortable with them and do they are relatable.
I wasn't so sure about the website being public and everyone seeing my writings, I get nervous even letting a professor. But I am over that now, I am totally fine with it. Blogging at first was challenging because I normally do not write about my week or even days. It reminded me of journaling, which is a healthy I just never do it. It was definitely a good way to help with further assignments that were due. I haven’t done too much since the semester started so I didn't have much to write about. Being a mom I am not as fun as I used to be, I like to go in early. I pretty much stayed with family because my friends end up on dummy missions.
Writer’s roundtable I felt like was very useful after I had completed it. It helped me understand Creative fiction and some showing scenes. I also got a better look on how other writers have a difficulty writing. My favorite story was “How can you create nonfiction when reality comes to call” by Carolyn Chute. I feel as though I related to her the most. I enjoyed her theme of time slipping away because I feel this way often. My least favorite was “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury. He was the least relatable but I did like some of his concepts he had gotten from other writers.
Our blog for familiar and strange places was a little weird, well at least the strange place part was. I have never written anything like that before; it was interesting to see where my mind took me and what I wrote down. I didn't try to fight any of it; I just let the ideas flow and flow writing them down as they came. I ended up just keeping it as it was. The familiar place was obviously easy I wrote about my grandmother’s house and how crazy it is most time.
The blog post where we had to take a translate telling into showing. I chose to translate the beginning of my cousin birthday party. I think this was the easiest blog I have done yet. The reason is because there was so much going on and it was like a movie scene. Five girls all dressed up crossing the street to the bar is just an easy visualization. Since it was cold that night, it made it easier to explain the little things. Like us being bundled up and seeing our breath in front of us. The wind blowing so hard that we were all rushing to get to the bar into the warmth.
When I wrote my Creative Nonfiction Essay It was hard for me to find out what I wanted to write. I racked my brain for the days trying to find something out. Finally I decided to write about my daily battle with depression. I did not write about this in my blogs, because I wasn't comfortable enough to. I was in my thoughts one night and just typed everything I felt on a Word document. I talked about my struggle to get out of bed on some days; and how I envy people that are happy. The reason behind my depression is because; I went through a big change in my life about two years ago. I had my daughter and a couple weeks later lost her father. I knew that my essay was all over the place. Finally meeting with my professor made me feel better. He helped me go over my essay. He said that I had a strong theme. He suggested I add more background information, which was about Nick and me. I took me a while to go back and revise because I didn't want to go back to the topic. I kind of felt like I just vented in the essay and that was that. One night when my daughter went to bed, I knew I had to finish I went back and rewrote a whole story about our past and what happen. I felt better about my essay after I revised it, now I think it is more understandable.
The film Food Matters was my favorite videos from the whole semester. They had many claims that had to do with the body. They said that a healthy body cannot get sick. But I had a hard time believing that. There are many people that eat healthy and exercise daily that still get sick with cancer, diabetes, etc. I feel as though if it is in your body or genes there is no way around it. They did however state that nutritional therapy can cure and reverse diseases. This one to me is at least somewhat believable. It makes sense that if your body is under attack and you have a healthy diet; that your body will be able to fight harder rather then with a poor diet. But I did like what they had to say mostly because I try to eat healthy and I learned more about super foods. I will say that this video was very informative and I am glad that our professor showed it to us. I definitely hope he keeps showing his classes to come as well.
When I was writing my I-Search paper it was a lot of collecting information from different websites. It was difficult at times to remember to copy and paste every single one of them to a word document. Sometimes I would forget to send them to my G-mail after that. So I missed out on working on it in my free time in between class. I did breastfeeding so there were so many facts about how healthy it is that it was so hard to find an organized order to mention them in. But as time went on they just kind of fell into place.
ENG 100 12:10pm
Assignment #2: Reflective Letter
Draft #2
Dr. Professor Sabatino
After reflecting back to all my writing so far throughout the semester; I realized that my view of writing has changed. This is because I never really practice showing scenes. Reading the Glass Castle and the Miracle Women also helped me understand: context, text, and subtext better. All the writings, readings, and even videos have definitely helped me realize how important these are to writing.
My time management was pretty much all over the place. I got my writing done where ever, whenever I could. Some either at night when my daughter was in bed or late afternoon; while she was watching cartoons getting ready for her nap. The rest of my written would be done between my classes. I would go get a coffee and go to the learning commons and type on the computer. There were sometimes were I just couldn’t get into my writings and I would just wait so long procrastinating to do them. This is the reason my grade is hurting today.
To me making our Weebly page was fairly easy. I always did well with making websites in school. Our professor navigated through; teaching us how to use it. After setting up the basics of our website, he told us we had to blog throughout the semester. Personalizing it was a difficult step for me. I wasn't sure what pictures to use to represent my writing. I recently just went on Google searched writing images and uploaded three to my websites headers. I feel fairly comfortable with them and do they are relatable.
I wasn't so sure about the website being public and everyone seeing my writings, I get nervous even letting a professor. But I am over that now, I am totally fine with it. Blogging at first was challenging because I normally do not write about my week or even days. It reminded me of journaling, which is a healthy I just never do it. It was definitely a good way to help with further assignments that were due. I haven’t done too much since the semester started so I didn't have much to write about. Being a mom I am not as fun as I used to be, I like to go in early. I pretty much stayed with family because my friends end up on dummy missions.
Writer’s roundtable I felt like was very useful after I had completed it. It helped me understand Creative fiction and some showing scenes. I also got a better look on how other writers have a difficulty writing. My favorite story was “How can you create nonfiction when reality comes to call” by Carolyn Chute. I feel as though I related to her the most. I enjoyed her theme of time slipping away because I feel this way often. My least favorite was “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury. He was the least relatable but I did like some of his concepts he had gotten from other writers.
Our blog for familiar and strange places was a little weird, well at least the strange place part was. I have never written anything like that before; it was interesting to see where my mind took me and what I wrote down. I didn't try to fight any of it; I just let the ideas flow and flow writing them down as they came. I ended up just keeping it as it was. The familiar place was obviously easy I wrote about my grandmother’s house and how crazy it is most time.
The blog post where we had to take a translate telling into showing. I chose to translate the beginning of my cousin birthday party. I think this was the easiest blog I have done yet. The reason is because there was so much going on and it was like a movie scene. Five girls all dressed up crossing the street to the bar is just an easy visualization. Since it was cold that night, it made it easier to explain the little things. Like us being bundled up and seeing our breath in front of us. The wind blowing so hard that we were all rushing to get to the bar into the warmth.
When I wrote my Creative Nonfiction Essay It was hard for me to find out what I wanted to write. I racked my brain for the days trying to find something out. Finally I decided to write about my daily battle with depression. I did not write about this in my blogs, because I wasn't comfortable enough to. I was in my thoughts one night and just typed everything I felt on a Word document. I talked about my struggle to get out of bed on some days; and how I envy people that are happy. The reason behind my depression is because; I went through a big change in my life about two years ago. I had my daughter and a couple weeks later lost her father. I knew that my essay was all over the place. Finally meeting with my professor made me feel better. He helped me go over my essay. He said that I had a strong theme. He suggested I add more background information, which was about Nick and me. I took me a while to go back and revise because I didn't want to go back to the topic. I kind of felt like I just vented in the essay and that was that. One night when my daughter went to bed, I knew I had to finish I went back and rewrote a whole story about our past and what happen. I felt better about my essay after I revised it, now I think it is more understandable.
The film Food Matters was my favorite videos from the whole semester. They had many claims that had to do with the body. They said that a healthy body cannot get sick. But I had a hard time believing that. There are many people that eat healthy and exercise daily that still get sick with cancer, diabetes, etc. I feel as though if it is in your body or genes there is no way around it. They did however state that nutritional therapy can cure and reverse diseases. This one to me is at least somewhat believable. It makes sense that if your body is under attack and you have a healthy diet; that your body will be able to fight harder rather then with a poor diet. But I did like what they had to say mostly because I try to eat healthy and I learned more about super foods. I will say that this video was very informative and I am glad that our professor showed it to us. I definitely hope he keeps showing his classes to come as well.
When I was writing my I-Search paper it was a lot of collecting information from different websites. It was difficult at times to remember to copy and paste every single one of them to a word document. Sometimes I would forget to send them to my G-mail after that. So I missed out on working on it in my free time in between class. I did breastfeeding so there were so many facts about how healthy it is that it was so hard to find an organized order to mention them in. But as time went on they just kind of fell into place.
Alicia Wetling
ENG 100 12:10pm
Assignment #2: Reflective Letter
Final Letter
Dr. Professor Sabatino
After reflecting back to all my writing so far throughout the semester; I realized that my view of writing has changed. This is because I never really practice showing scenes. Reading the Glass Castle and the Miracle Women also helped me understand: context, text, and subtext better. All the writings, readings, and even videos have definitely helped me realize how important these are to writing.
My time management was pretty much all over the place. I got my writing done where ever, whenever I could. Some either at night when my daughter was in bed or late afternoon; while she was watching cartoons getting ready for her nap. The rest of my written would be done between my classes. I would go get a coffee and go to the learning commons and type on the computer. There were sometimes were I just couldn't get into my writings and I would just wait so long procrastinating to do them. This is the reason my grade is hurting today.
To me making our Weebly page was fairly easy. I always did well with making websites in school. Our professor navigated through; teaching us how to use it. After setting up the basics of our website, he told us we had to blog throughout the semester. Personalizing it was a difficult step for me. I wasn't sure what pictures to use to represent my writing. I recently just went on Google searched writing images and uploaded three to my websites headers. I feel fairly comfortable with them and do they are relatable.
I wasn't so sure about the website being public and everyone seeing my writings, I get nervous even letting a professor. But I am over that now, I am totally fine with it. Blogging at first was challenging because I normally do not write about my week or even days. It reminded me of journaling, which is a healthy I just never do it. It was definitely a good way to help with further assignments that were due. I haven’t done too much since the semester started so I didn't have much to write about. Being a mom I am not as fun as I used to be, I like to go in early. I pretty much stayed with family because my friends end up on dummy missions.
Writer’s roundtable I felt like was very useful after I had completed it. It helped me understand Creative fiction and some showing scenes. I also got a better look on how other writers have a difficulty writing. My favorite story was “How can you create nonfiction when reality comes to call” by Carolyn Chute. I feel as though I related to her the most. I enjoyed her theme of time slipping away because I feel this way often. My least favorite was “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury. He was the least relatable but I did like some of his concepts he had gotten from other writers.
Our blog for familiar and strange places was a little weird, well at least the strange place part was. I have never written anything like that before; it was interesting to see where my mind took me and what I wrote down. I didn't try to fight any of it; I just let the ideas flow and flow writing them down as they came. I ended up just keeping it as it was. The familiar place was obviously easy I wrote about my grandmother’s house and how crazy it is most time.
The blog post where we had to take a translate telling into showing. I chose to translate the beginning of my cousin birthday party. I think this was the easiest blog I have done yet. The reason is because there was so much going on and it was like a movie scene. Five girls all dressed up crossing the street to the bar is just an easy visualization. Since it was cold that night, it made it easier to explain the little things. Like us being bundled up and seeing our breath in front of us. The wind blowing so hard that we were all rushing to get to the bar into the warmth.
When I wrote my Creative Nonfiction Essay It was hard for me to find out what I wanted to write. I racked my brain for the days trying to find something out. Finally I decided to write about my daily battle with depression. I did not write about this in my blogs, because I wasn't comfortable enough to. I was in my thoughts one night and just typed everything I felt on a Word document. I talked about my struggle to get out of bed on some days; and how I envy people that are happy. The reason behind my depression is because; I went through a big change in my life about two years ago. I had my daughter and a couple weeks later lost her father. I knew that my essay was all over the place. Finally meeting with my professor made me feel better. He helped me go over my essay. He said that I had a strong theme. He suggested I add more background information, which was about Nick and me. I took me a while to go back and revise because I didn't want to go back to the topic. I kind of felt like I just vented in the essay and that was that. One night when my daughter went to bed, I knew I had to finish I went back and rewrote a whole story about our past and what happen. I felt better about my essay after I revised it, now I think it is more understandable.
The film Food Matters was my favorite videos from the whole semester. They had many claims that had to do with the body. They said that a healthy body cannot get sick. But I had a hard time believing that. There are many people that eat healthy and exercise daily that still get sick with cancer, diabetes, etc. I feel as though if it is in your body or genes there is no way around it. They did however state that nutritional therapy can cure and reverse diseases. This one to me is at least somewhat believable. It makes sense that if your body is under attack and you have a healthy diet; that your body will be able to fight harder rather then with a poor diet. But I did like what they had to say mostly because I try to eat healthy and I learned more about super foods. I will say that this video was very informative and I am glad that our professor showed it to us. I definitely hope he keeps showing his classes to come as well.
When I was writing my I-Search paper it was a lot of collecting information from different websites. It was difficult at times to remember to copy and paste every single one of them to a word document. Sometimes I would forget to send them to my G-mail after that. So I missed out on working on it in my free time in between class. I did breastfeeding so there were so many facts about how healthy it is that it was so hard to find an organized order to mention them in. But as time went on they just kind of fell into place.
ENG 100 12:10pm
Assignment #2: Reflective Letter
Final Letter
Dr. Professor Sabatino
After reflecting back to all my writing so far throughout the semester; I realized that my view of writing has changed. This is because I never really practice showing scenes. Reading the Glass Castle and the Miracle Women also helped me understand: context, text, and subtext better. All the writings, readings, and even videos have definitely helped me realize how important these are to writing.
My time management was pretty much all over the place. I got my writing done where ever, whenever I could. Some either at night when my daughter was in bed or late afternoon; while she was watching cartoons getting ready for her nap. The rest of my written would be done between my classes. I would go get a coffee and go to the learning commons and type on the computer. There were sometimes were I just couldn't get into my writings and I would just wait so long procrastinating to do them. This is the reason my grade is hurting today.
To me making our Weebly page was fairly easy. I always did well with making websites in school. Our professor navigated through; teaching us how to use it. After setting up the basics of our website, he told us we had to blog throughout the semester. Personalizing it was a difficult step for me. I wasn't sure what pictures to use to represent my writing. I recently just went on Google searched writing images and uploaded three to my websites headers. I feel fairly comfortable with them and do they are relatable.
I wasn't so sure about the website being public and everyone seeing my writings, I get nervous even letting a professor. But I am over that now, I am totally fine with it. Blogging at first was challenging because I normally do not write about my week or even days. It reminded me of journaling, which is a healthy I just never do it. It was definitely a good way to help with further assignments that were due. I haven’t done too much since the semester started so I didn't have much to write about. Being a mom I am not as fun as I used to be, I like to go in early. I pretty much stayed with family because my friends end up on dummy missions.
Writer’s roundtable I felt like was very useful after I had completed it. It helped me understand Creative fiction and some showing scenes. I also got a better look on how other writers have a difficulty writing. My favorite story was “How can you create nonfiction when reality comes to call” by Carolyn Chute. I feel as though I related to her the most. I enjoyed her theme of time slipping away because I feel this way often. My least favorite was “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury. He was the least relatable but I did like some of his concepts he had gotten from other writers.
Our blog for familiar and strange places was a little weird, well at least the strange place part was. I have never written anything like that before; it was interesting to see where my mind took me and what I wrote down. I didn't try to fight any of it; I just let the ideas flow and flow writing them down as they came. I ended up just keeping it as it was. The familiar place was obviously easy I wrote about my grandmother’s house and how crazy it is most time.
The blog post where we had to take a translate telling into showing. I chose to translate the beginning of my cousin birthday party. I think this was the easiest blog I have done yet. The reason is because there was so much going on and it was like a movie scene. Five girls all dressed up crossing the street to the bar is just an easy visualization. Since it was cold that night, it made it easier to explain the little things. Like us being bundled up and seeing our breath in front of us. The wind blowing so hard that we were all rushing to get to the bar into the warmth.
When I wrote my Creative Nonfiction Essay It was hard for me to find out what I wanted to write. I racked my brain for the days trying to find something out. Finally I decided to write about my daily battle with depression. I did not write about this in my blogs, because I wasn't comfortable enough to. I was in my thoughts one night and just typed everything I felt on a Word document. I talked about my struggle to get out of bed on some days; and how I envy people that are happy. The reason behind my depression is because; I went through a big change in my life about two years ago. I had my daughter and a couple weeks later lost her father. I knew that my essay was all over the place. Finally meeting with my professor made me feel better. He helped me go over my essay. He said that I had a strong theme. He suggested I add more background information, which was about Nick and me. I took me a while to go back and revise because I didn't want to go back to the topic. I kind of felt like I just vented in the essay and that was that. One night when my daughter went to bed, I knew I had to finish I went back and rewrote a whole story about our past and what happen. I felt better about my essay after I revised it, now I think it is more understandable.
The film Food Matters was my favorite videos from the whole semester. They had many claims that had to do with the body. They said that a healthy body cannot get sick. But I had a hard time believing that. There are many people that eat healthy and exercise daily that still get sick with cancer, diabetes, etc. I feel as though if it is in your body or genes there is no way around it. They did however state that nutritional therapy can cure and reverse diseases. This one to me is at least somewhat believable. It makes sense that if your body is under attack and you have a healthy diet; that your body will be able to fight harder rather then with a poor diet. But I did like what they had to say mostly because I try to eat healthy and I learned more about super foods. I will say that this video was very informative and I am glad that our professor showed it to us. I definitely hope he keeps showing his classes to come as well.
When I was writing my I-Search paper it was a lot of collecting information from different websites. It was difficult at times to remember to copy and paste every single one of them to a word document. Sometimes I would forget to send them to my G-mail after that. So I missed out on working on it in my free time in between class. I did breastfeeding so there were so many facts about how healthy it is that it was so hard to find an organized order to mention them in. But as time went on they just kind of fell into place.