GabrielPitaL

What was my favorite writing assignment?

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite writing assignment, probably because when first receiving them, they all seem like so much work and nearly impossible to accomplish. Upon beginning them however, I always tend to like the end result.

One of the reasons why they seem to be so much work at once is probably because I don’t write as I go along with the reading. I usually read the work and any resources, mark them up, and only when I know or have a good idea of what I wish to say, do I sit down on the computer and start typing. Depending on the length of the assignment and sometimes when the subject matter was of my interest or knowledge, I tended to write the paper in one sitting. Of course I go back to reread, revise, check, add and delete, tweak a sentence here, and a paragraph there. I am not one to start with one paragraph or two and then leave the work for a couple of days to go back to it. I like to write as much as possible at one sitting, so that I don’t lose my train of thought.

I like assignments were I can compare and contrast theories, opinions or even works by the same author or same genre. Last semester we had to write a paper about something that was meaning to us, an event or something that touched or changed our lives, along with a reaction to the paper, to the event, our feelings at the time and then an analysis or comparison of what they were like as we wrote it. That was something very different for me, as I rarely write about anything that happened to me, in fact most classes asked for research or theoretical papers, so this was definitely a change. It was also the first time in years that I was asked to keep a journal of anything that happened in the class, in the school, in my life in general. Looking back on those journals, I could pinpoint occurrences, my moods, feelings, and worries, it also made me focus more easily since I was stopping for a few minutes before each class to simply write.