Sunday, January 20, 2019

Private Writing


The passage I have chosen to analyze is the Private Writing section. It talks about teaching writing as a private enterprise rather than a public or social enterprise. When it comes to private writing the rules should be different from public writing. Unfiltered writing can sometimes get the creative juices flowing and we often can come up with things to write about things that you didn’t know that you knew about. I think that this relates to people writing post on Facebook, some people can write the most creative post but get writers’ block when time to write a paper for a class. Additionally, just writing to a targeted group of people for example your Facebook friends essentially makes you more comfortable with you writing.

3 comments:

  1. I think it was very interesting how you compared and contrast Facebook posts to private journaling.

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  2. I completely agree with your thought of "unfiltered writing". The only way I can start writing an assignment, or paper is writing about how I feel in that moment. I just start writing about how I feel in that present moment, and I tend to write with various description. Once I've written a couple of sentences, then I feel as if my head is cleared and I can begin writing the assignment. Writer's block is definitely a real thing. Sometimes the only way I break it is to think of a random word pair or writing prompt, and just let it spark my imagination. I will do whatever it takes to scribble a couple of sentences together, and soon after...voila no more writers block!

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  3. I think you had a great response! You made a good point about how people can experience writer's block in different ways. I agree that the audience you are writing to changes the way in which you write. For example, we write in a much more professional tone with academic writing than we do on social media or when writing to our friends.

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