Levy Dervan

Reflection

I have absolutely become more of a better and more confidant writer with this class. not only with just the sheer practice but also with a better understanding of how speech and writing and morph and change based on grammar changes. from going from Writing for Self-Expression to Writing for a Cause and lastly Creating Community, each one showed a different way to write.

With so much practice Ive learned the need and how to edit and revise, with every assignment i try to edit and revise to make it better and better, I've learned its much easier revise then to add, so i have my first draft focused on just getting something, anything on the page. from there i can edit, tweak, and revise all the problems to make it good. the assignment that helped the most was the first speech that i had to write, it took many, many attempts to find a flow that felt write to speak. writing to read and writing to speak are very different flows and the first time writing to speak showed that plain as day.

While i don't think i have fully developed my own voice yet as a writer, i do have certain ticks, of writing that seem to follow with all my different ways i write. Most notably, most of the time when adding adjectives they are added in pairs. Another quirk would be the use of very flowery language, while partly used to fill out word counts my practice in creative storytelling as a game master has shifted much of my writing to share that similar flowery fluff in text form.

Most of all now i have especially learned how to consider my audience when writing, writing for a cause was where i really started to hone in writing to fit a audience, the style of writing that the common person is going to need is very different then an expert in their field or a young grade school kid.

none of the modules really spoke to me since my niches of writing is in technical documentation and in creative storytelling, however it each did help make my general writing much more focused and better.