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Blast from the Past
Throughout my many years of writing, dating back to elementary school, I have composed several diverse types of pieces, including non-fiction narratives, descriptive poetry, creative fiction, subjective essays, and persuasive articles. Although I’ve written in all these styles, there are still some areas in which I struggle, primarily with creative fictional pieces and persuasive articles. See, for me to write creatively, I must be in a specific mood and mindset that allows my creative thoughts to flow and I’m also not the best at arguing a point to manage writing a profound persuasive piece. Writing doesn’t always come naturally to me, especially if I feel uninterested in the topic, but I have always tried methods in the past to become more engaged and personal with whatever I’m needing to convey. For instance, I have developed certain habits and rituals that I perform before and during the writing process of a creative fiction essay that include walking outside, watching a children’s show, or reflecting on a memory from my childhood. Each of these practices help me come up with different ideas that may not have become without these activities occurring. Some writing styles come very naturally to me and are especially useful in my career as a Paramedic which requires me to write objective narratives with each patient interaction I have. I think this writing style is so easy for me because it is factual, to the point, and non-biased which also means that they don’t require as much of a thought process before I begin to write. I’ve written so many patient narratives at this point where I’ve developed a personalized flow to each incident and can be used regardless of the actual details from the interaction.
Future Practices
I have an extensive past with writing, but I have an even longer future with composition as my personal life, and career, await me. With the time I have moving forward in life, I would like to spend it improving on my skills in creative writing so when I have children, I’ll be able to read them bedtime stories that are more personalized because they came directly from me and supplies them with a more imaginative world. Another reason I want to expand in this area of writing is so I, personally, can view the world in a different, less negative, light. In my professional career, I would like to improve my expository writing since it will be a major component in my career as a Physician Assistant. This style of writing will be beneficial for me when I begin to teach classes to colleagues and others in the medical field to help them grow as medical providers and expand their knowledge of medicine. Once I feel comfortable with my own writing styles, I want to be described as a writer who can not only provide factual information but can also create a captivating story that intrigues and entices any kind of projected audience. Currently, I would describe my writing as being primarily focused on factual and evidence-based reasoning to drive my narration, but in the future, I would also like to see myself morph into adding more emotional aspects to my writing.
My Writing Reflection
Throughout this course, we spent a great deal of time focusing on each component that makes a quality composition. Throughout this process, a few things about myself became apparent, such as, I have an understanding and gentle approach to giving critique and feedback, I can accomplish so much with different modes of research, and I actually enjoy writing! I’ve always liked doing projects for school and work that required me to put in extra effort in order to write something that was both factual and emotionally charged so during this class I was able to achieve this with the problem-solution project. During this course, I set out to try and put myself in the third-person’s point of view for all my writing in hopes that I could improve my writing by understanding what someone else might think while reading it. With each new assignment, I would write like I normally have in the past, but during revision, I would step back and try to completely forget that it was a piece I wrote entirely. This helped me develop as a writer tremendously by giving me the opportunity to critique myself in a better manner than I have before.
Another piece of this course that I thoroughly enjoyed is how we were encouraged to use visuals with a lot of our work. This is a style of writing I was not incredibly comfortable or familiar with because, up to this point, I had mostly written formal essays or research papers. Adding visual elements felt like a fun way to boost the creativity of my work and, when providing quality visuals, I could set the scenery for the reader and give them a better understanding of the situation, place, or emotion.
Continuing along the lines of visual aspects, I am very proud of the advocacy ad I created for the problem-solution project. I was able to draft my paper before I even began thinking of ways to create the visual component of it, but while rereading my work, I had the perfect idea for it. The advocacy ad wasn’t just about finding an image that would go along with my paper, but it needed to be emotionally charged in a way that could be relayed to any type of audience seeing it and couldn’t be copyrighted. I did a bit more research and found that AI generated images weren’t copyrighted since they aren’t created by a human. Creating the image from AI was a no-brainer for me since I knew specifically how I wanted it to look. After getting the perfect image, I fumbled around with several different fonts, colors, placements of text, and wording. Ultimately, I decided to make the text as chaotic as possible with different colors, different fonts, and text placement that didn’t really have much rhyme or reason. I wanted to do it this way to emulate what people with ADHD feel like when reading things in black and white. It feels chaotic, jumbled, and the complete opposite of how it should feel in the mind of someone with ADHD. I’m very proud of the advocacy ad because it would catch the eye of almost every passerby.
The Future of My Writing
It should go without saying that my writing has improved more than I thought it could throughout this course, but there are still a few things I plan to continually improve on, such as my research habits, using visual aspects, and catering to more pathos rhetoric.
Researching is always a key component to any quality writing project, especially when it involves facts and numerical data. Throughout my collegiate journey, I’ll be spending more time finding the best articles, papers, and books to fit my needs as a writer and will be using the ASU library as much as possible to achieve this. I found so many great sources of material through the ASU library that I can’t imagine a future writing project without it. In the future, I’ll be exploring even more of the ASU library’s functions which can only help me more when trying to find specific compositions about a certain topic.
If I’m allowed to with other papers, I’ll be incorporating more visual aspects because I think they can add so much more to a piece that words can. As the common phrase states, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, I plan to use these visual aspects to include more detail for my piece of writing that will keep the audience more engaged and included with the work.
I can see myself, in the future, writing more quality pieces that will entice an audience rather than bore them. My goal for the future is to write pieces that I can always be proud of, knowing that my target audience was reached, and they were inspired, moved, or informed by my writing. Something I’ve also been thinking about more recently is writing leisurely, specifically, writing something that details my life up to this point. I think it would be really neat to write some sort of book or short story that, one day, my grandchildren could read and learn about who I am and what made me the person I am. I would incorporate images from my life to go along with each unit so they could have a visual representation of the story I’m telling or, at least, what I looked like during that period.
I’m hopeful and excited when thinking about the future of my writing and using all the things I’ve learned throughout this course that will make me the best writer I can possibly be. I want to see myself continue to grow and create pieces of writing that I’m proud of for years to come; whether it’s because of the way I was able to describe a scene, how I used visual aspects, or the way I organized a whole bunch of research into one cohesive paper. All in all, my writing journey is not ending with the completion of this course and, in hindsight, is only beginning.
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