Writing Center Experience

I found my writing center experience to be both rewarding and unfavorable. At first, I established the room itself to be too small and open. I felt exposed, as if everyone was listening in on my conversation with the tutor. I did not take with me any sort of rough draft. All I brought was the assignment and my thematic strand located in the Shakespeare concordance. I was having difficulty with how I would actually embark writing my paper. I had so many ideas running through my head. I could not keep to one specific argument. I explained my issue to the tutor. I started to become frustrated with the way he/she kept repeating my questions back to me. At one point, the tutor actually took a phone call during my appointment. Feeling rushed, I became angry at the situation. Overall I found the experience to be useful. The tutor helped me to pick one argument and stay focused. I accomplished what I had come for. The conversation gave me the courage to stick to one topic. My tutor expressed how he or she felt my argument was clear and concise. What mattered in the comments was if my tutor understood what I was aiming for and trying to articulate. I was able to get feedback on my central idea for the paper.

Since I had nothing to begin with I would not say I revised anything. I was able to get something more useful than that. By starting the paper off with a solid argument in my head I was able to fixate greatly on connecting data from The Twelfth Night with my theme. I filtered my ideas to create a thesis that made sense. I feel I would have not been as successful with my paper unless I had gone to the writing center. I approached my paper with ease and less anxiety. I definitely recommend the writing center. The writer is able to receive the feedback they require to properly execute their paper.

A Writer

A writer is anyone that combines his or her ideas and thoughts together and shares them with the world. The thought could be simple. Everyone can be a writer. A writer does not necessarily describe a person who sits at their desk all day long writing for their profession. Everyone in some way is a writer even if the only writing they accomplish is through Facebook or Twitter. Anything that is written is a text. Without knowing it, one's words may influence those of another's. To be called a writer is not a job title. The dimensions of being a writer are endless.

I am a writer because I use words everyday to express my thoughts. I do not know how I would manage life if I did not write. Language is the foundation of one's culture. Without it civilizations would have failed and disappeared. Writing is the art that comes from one's language. Everyone should embrace writing.

Blogging

For me, blogging is a writing experience that I feel takes time. I am not one that writes something off the top of their head and just posts it. I constantly go back and revise my writing. If I am not satisfied with my writing I refuse to post it on my blog. I guess you could say I am a perfectionist, but it is more than that. I take into account that everything I write is being published. Someone at one point in time is going to be reading my blog. In a sense the thought terrifies me. My blog shows not only my writing abilities and talents, but how I think. People will be judging me based on what I write never having met me. There can be a lot of pressure and anxiety. You are letting strangers in. At times blogging can be very frustrating and annoying. However, when I look back at all the blogs I have written I feel a sense of accomplishment. All my hard work is highlighted and augmented in one place. The time spent feels worthwhile. I feel the effort I put in clearly shows my dedication to what I write. Blogging might be better if it did not feel so open and exposing, but then no one would ever feel challenged. Writing is about stirring emotion whether it be good or bad. With just a little time and effort one's blog can be more than they ever dreamed. This is what has happened to me.

Language is a Slippery Vehicle

Language is a slippery vehicle being both descriptive and ambiguous. In the poem "The Problem of Describing Trees" by Robert Haas, language is not fully able to describe the magical way in which the trees sway in the wind. He is not able to create an image for the reader by just using words. Language is not able to bewitch us in the same way that the trees did at that exact moment in time. Robert Haas states the idea that there are limits and boundaries to writing. The nature of making meaning is an arduous process filled with complications. Rodney Jones sees writing in a different perspective.

Rodney Jones affirms in his poem "Hubris at Zunzal" that "No image like the image of language." Language gives the writer power to retell an experience and relive that moment using words as your guide. Jones is able to charm his reader with the event he depicts in his poem with "Language its tracer." Words help to compose the past. A moment can be given birth to once more for all to behold. Previous occurrences do not have to become lost and forgotten. They can be retold. Peoples have succeeded in this tradition for generations by passing down stories and extraordinary events through word of mouth and writing. Rodney Jones proves the power of language.

Language propels ideas and thoughts. It is a vehicle through which humans communicate. Without language humans would be stuck in park never moving forward in knowledge. The writing process is a slippery one. If not properly defined, one's thoughts can be meaningless and unclear to another. Robert Haas shows the difficulty of using words when trying to sketch the enchanted moment of the the trees swaying in the wind. Rodney Jones tells us of his story with ease using words. The nature of making meaning will never be easy, but language is the only way in which humans can move together. Language keeps us in the driver's seat with the car in drive.