Wills Catch Up Blog #1

As I start this blog. I find that I am what people like call a "smart-ass". I want to be witty and clever, but in all honesty. My snark is to hide my discomfort of being forced to write something thatothers can review and thereby critize and belabor my thoughts and feelings. I know people often say that they just wrote anything, but most of the time, especially in classroom settings that is a defesive mechanism. It is the throwing up of an arm to blow potentially hurtful comments. It is a shield to prevent others from wounding them too much or deeply. It is our nature, our human nature. We take things personally it what we do as a species. Now there are some who can shed the slings and arrows easliy, but most when suffering an inflicted wound, will try to grimance and just "walk it off" acting like nothing ever happened. However, the wound does indeed hurt. Most of the times, it is the smallest pain that bothers us the most. Those paper cuts are nasty pieces of work. They sting and hover, registering in your subconscious letting you know that you have been wounded. So here is my first entry into the required blogging. Chapter Three of Lindemann gives us the basics of writing. It includes things that I never really considered when starting my writing. To me it was all just get something down on the page. So when Lindemann discussces prewriting, I had to reconsider how I approached the practice. Then the entire idea of writing was presented to me in a manner that I hadn't considered at all. This whole idea of prethought and then mentally preparing for the writing project is new to me. Writing was something that one just did. A draft was just the first attempt at putting something together for submission. A rewrite was polishing and correcting your previous mistakes or developing something that you hadn't really touched the first time around. Although I agree that writing is social interaction. That is my basic use for writing. It is the most convenient and efficient method to communicate with others. I also identified with the part about what students write and how they manage tp write. Hopefully, I can catch up and complete this work as I also deal with other demands and requirements of this course.

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