Relationship to Writing

Post your Relationship to Writing Essay, and anything else related that you want to include.

The Assignment:

Writing 100 / Fall 2014 / Darling

My Relationship to Writing Assignment Sheet

Write a personal narrative about your relationship to writing. Use your DSP essay and the Reflection Assignment as the material for this narrative. You can use The Reflection as a first draft that you revise and focus on a singular event, experience, or lesson that you have learned about writing (and yourself in relation to writing).

Follow the steps below, and think about focus and organization, to complete the essay:

First, focus on a specific (writing) experience that you have had, or a piece of knowledge that you have gained (about writing or about yourself in relation to writing) and use this as the “thesis” or central/focal point of your essay.

Next, think about how you want to incorporate examples or passages from the DSP and the Reflection into this essay. You might want to make an outline or a mind map that visually explains in what order the information will be included. What is each paragraph going to be “about”?

Think about each paragraph as a mini-essay; each paragraph should have a clear focus and be developed with examples, details, images, explanation, and support that will bring your reader into the experience/learning process with you.

Next, work on the development (as described above) further. How are you going to expand and develop each paragraph, and the essay from beginning to end, to include a depth of thought and reflection; examples and exposition; and strong writing that includes vivid description, narration, and language that will keep the reader engaged?

Finally, go through the essay to consider coherence: how does the paper flow from beginning to end, within each paragraph, and within each sentence? Work on grammatical and syntactical cohesion at all levels. If you have problems with focus and clarity in your paragraphs or sentences, then you may need to go back and refocus the whole paper from the beginning.

The final, revised essay should be 5 pages, 12pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced.