Let's get old school!And no, I don't mean Richard-Dawson-on-a-game-show "old school" (Richard Dawson, by the way, is one of the most amazing men to ever live, and I won't listen to anyone who says otherwise); I'm taking about looking back to the beginning of the semester when the class that inspired this blog and final project began! Okay, so - believe it or not - there were assignments that came before the posts you have all thoroughly enjoyed here (shocking, I know). When my professor told us to upload those documents, I started wondering: should I just upload the Microsoft Word documents I originally created, OR should I post the reading responses I got back from my professor with feedback? So many times my students see the work of others and think, I could never write like that, but that's only because they don't see the many stages writing goes through. A books of poetry, novel, scholarly article, etc. all go through many cycles of write, edit, re-write, re-edit, proofread (and then repeat those all in random orders for an infinite numbers of time) before a work becomes "finished." Even the word "finished" is a difficult term (is anything ever really finished (or do we just eventually decide that whatever IT is, is good enough and give up). I know, I'm getting a little weird here, but when I really took some time to think about this, I decided to scan my responses with feedback and upload them here for those who want a peek into what writing is like for many people. These documents have errors, suggestions, scribbles, etc. I am not ashamed. I'm actually quite proud, and I'm happy that whomever visits this will get to see my messy compositions in all their subpar glory. Are they good? Sure. But they could definitely be better. I hope you all see that and enjoy. I wanted to put this all at the top of my blog, because I do feel like this is an important introduction to a very difficult process I experienced this semester (I had only used Weebly once before, never used Adobe Muse, and had definitely never read any of the material I discuss in my responses both in the attachment here as well as in my other blog responses). I'm happy to share this experience, and I hope there's something here for people to learn, experience, and interact with during their visit. Thank you all. ![]()
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