Read it Right

We read all the time, such as magazines or newspapers we can not help reading everyday. But did you know that everytime we read something, we are learning something?? Shocking right! We read and we come across new words that we are not familiar with or new concepts that we have never really thought about previously. Strategically we should outline our reading, to ensure us that we can remember and yet understand what it is that we just read. Outlining is a great strategy to reading and a wonderful way to understand your reading. I personally think that if you just take a second look at your reading then I feel that you will honestly understand the material better. Strategy is everything when it comes to reading, or even just doing something of importance to your future.
and just so everyone knows i survived the fire drill!

Whats wrong with it?

Editing and Proofreading=stages in the writing process. Editing is simply the stage when you work on the details of your paragraphs, sentences, words, and puncuation to make your writing as clear as it can be. The best advice to go by while editing yours or another persons writing is, "your goal is not to acheive perfection, so much as to make your writing as effective as possible for a particular purpose, or audience". That advice really helps me out when I self-edit, or peer-edit. Also, editing can either be big or small. Editing can be something as simple as making sure the right words are used, for example there instead of their.
Proofreading is just looking over the paper again and again, making sure all the mistakes are correct and everything flows together.
Writing is a complex process but it does not have to be. If you put forth the right steps, your work will be amazing!

Look at what I can do

I love to write stories but I dislike writing papers for school. When I write my own stories I feel like I get my idea across so much easier. However, when I am in a class and I get a paper assigned to me, I get a total writers block. I lose all my ideas, I can not figure out how to word my thoughts properly, and I get frantic. I get throught all of that eventually, but then comes the self-editing. I can read over and over and over my paper and not find anything wrong with it but the second someone else reads it, errors come after errors. I always wonder why that happpens?
BUT I figured it out.. its because I dont kno what I am supposed to be looking for. I guess there are specific details I should have looked for throughout my writing that I completley just overlooked. I should have first looked at my papers length.. that is the first way that you can easily tell if the paper looks like enough detail. The other major part that I forget about it the focus of my writing.. it is so hard for me to maintain my audience.. I always feel like I bounce back and forth between how I explain some details. And then there is revising.. it takes forever but its the final step before your done with the writing. I like to have multiple people read my work to see if they can find something that doesnt sound just right.. so I can fix it before my professor takes points off for it.

Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines!

have you even been in the middle of a very important paper that your typing bout an hour before its due?... and then your computer crashes? and you lose all your work?
that is what i hate the most when i type papers, therefore i save all my work every 5 minutes.

however another thing that i def. do not like about typin up my paper is when i completley run out of ideas! it makes me so mad.. cause then i lose my concentration and starting wandering onto facebook and then im into a whole another problem!
i think when you write you should take breaks.. its easier to come up with your ideas and easier to get your ideas across when you have time to take your mind off the assigment then come back to it with a fresh start! try it :)

another thing is detail.. its the hardest part in my opinion. I dont kno how much detail to put into my paper. Im always worried about "is too much or too little" cause i never kno :) but the right amount of detail that i end up using is just the right amount that if someone who is reading your work, they will can understand and even get a clear picture of what that scence would look like if they were there.

so i kno i said there is one thing i hate the most bout typin up papers and you probably thought i was only going to talk about that one thing.. but.. i suprised you!

An informal language

I used to love to write when I was younger, as I grew up I didn't find it as enjoyable anymore. However, when I used to write I used a strategy called "free writing". Free writing is an informal method of exploring a subject by writing about it. In my opinion, free writing is the easiest form of writing to express your ideas. I love to just sit down and write freely about anything that comes to my mind, and express it in anyway I want too.
There are also mechanics in a free write. Perhaps you were a student and you were asked to writed a narrative about any topic of your choice, you can not just sit down and expect every idea to come straight to your head. You have to outline and list your ideas in some specific order so you can be sure to have an orgainzed paper. An organized paper is a great thing to have because it makes it easier for you to write and fit ideas and details into it, and makes it alot easier on your reader because they can understand your message.
I want to challenge you to something, go home and sit down and try this thing called "free writing" and maybe even you can enjoy writing.

The things I will learn!

When you sit down and start to write, do you ever think about what your purpose is?
Well i found out that all writing has its own purpose. When I begin to write, I think of the kind of emotion I want to portray throughout it or how I will express myself so my readers can understand my opinion on the topic. According to the my textbook for my English 103 class, "we write to explore our thoughts and emotions, to express ourselves, to entertain; we write to record words and events, to communicate with others, to try to persuade others to believe as we do." But that statement is so accurate though, I mean what else do people write about other than trying to explain a story or to persuade us on a issue or just to express themselves. Writing is a great way to express yourself.
The mechanics of writing involves many differnt factors to keep in mind. Just to name a few, being consicious of your audience is a big thing to watch when you begin writing. You want to make sure the people reading your piece can understand the meaning behind it. Genres are also important in writing. Genres are kinds of writings, such as letters or profiles. Genres have particular conventions for presenting information that help writers write and readers read. If that makes sense? :)
I also read something about writing literacy narratives. I dont know how many people have heard of a narrative, but a it is simply just a story. Key features in a narrative include: a well-told story, vivid detail, and some indication of the narratives significance. In my opinion, if you were to follow these key features one would write a very powerful narrative.
I read pages out of my English 103 text and found the information very useful and thought I would share it with anyone who was interested.

Greek Night...but not so "greek-ish"

so i went to A-dawg room to watch the tv show "greek" but we never ended up watchin it. Me, A-dawg, toree, and kourtni started talkin bout scaring random ppl on the street. So we attempted to watch the end of "greek" and left for my room. Toree and Kourtni took off on the other side of the street...scaring the random ppl. They creeped behind the bushes, as A-dawg and I acted like we didnt kno them. It was a very interesting way to end a very funny night!