Student Blogs
The Writing Process » Floating Down Denial
In reading through my classmates’ posts I’ve noticed that many people are taking this assignment as an opportunity to say goodbye. After reading only two blogs with farewell posts I started to slump into a minor depression, especially when I started to think about Dr. Allen’s departure and the graduating seniors. I hate goodbyes and I usually deny them a place ...
[Link]The Writing Process » To Be Continued
Readers,
STAY TUNED, even though our class has ended. Look out for more posts discussing “Race” especially as summer nears and I have more time to make this blog a hobby. Congrats to all who are graduating, and Good Luck with all future endeavors. Remember, all, that I continue to look forward to your feedback and appreciate your patience and constructive ...
[Link]The Writing Process » The Blog as a Writer’s Space
Do you like having this public space?
I enjoy using the blog when I have a chance. I do feel, though, as if it were more an assignment than a personal project. I think, however, after the class is done I will continue to use it more as a personal, writerly space even though I would need some time to ...
[Link]The Writing Process » Final Paper
Love Lifts the Pen, Discipline Sustains It
We first encounter the “writer” at a young age. This first encounter is vague. We are still questioning, still defining everything around us. Usually the encounter occurs when we’ve taken up a fascination with the concept of occupation. Firemen, librarians, babysitters, Mom, Dad, all have a different role and function. The writer may ...
[Link]English 307 » I Never Realized
Wow! I had never realized before what an amazing compilation of voices and words was here all along on this Internet archive. Perhaps I should have read and done this response to everyone’s blogs before I wrote my response to blogging in general. I may likely have come up with a different story to tell. However I may feel about keeping ...
[Link]The Writing Process » Oh, the blog, what to say about the blog….sigh….
Uh, honestly, I hate the blog. HATE IT. Not because I hate writing anything in it, but I hate having to deal with the actual program. I can’t tell you how long it took me to work out the whole not-having-one-giant-paragraph thing, even when I would copy/paste from Word. My illiteracy in computers made it particular annoying for me. Uggghhh, ...
[Link]The Writing Process » All Of Your Blogs Were Flippin’ Amazing
I was soooo not looking forward to reading the class blogs. Not at all. Which is not surprising see as how it’s 10:14 and I’m finally reading them and writing my response. But I have got to say, again not surprisingly, that I loved them. My favorite part was seeing how each person had personalized their blog, through either template, titles ...
[Link]into the air » Blog It Out
I’m just gonna put it out there - I loved having a blog. Wait, that might not convey exactly what I feel. I loved getting to write on my blog. It felt so personal and really cool to just have a collection of my own writings there before me. After we got our first couple of posts out, and Dr. A ...
[Link]Jennifer's 307 Blog » This Space Is Mine
Looking over my blog, I realize how far I have come in my ideas of writing. I used to think that writers should just write, and should just write well. I didn’t have any knowledge of voice or spirituality in writing. I just knew that I wrote differently for an academic paper than I did for my prayer journal. I knew ...
[Link]Dave's ENG 307 » Other Blogs
The best thing about these blogs is that you can see our classmates works in the context of their other works. In class, we only see their work in the context of the rest of the class’s work, or the works of scholars. But on these blogs, our classmates are on display. If we like one blog more than another, we ...
[Link]into the air » The Others
I don’t really know where to start. I guess, for starters, I can say that I really enjoyed reading everyone’s blogs. It’s difficult for me to only pick a few because everyone stood out in their own way. I can literally hear the voices of everyone in our class coming from their blogs… mostly because I remember what everyone’s voices ...
[Link]The Writing Process » Just kidding.
I started my blog with a freewrite, and I have a lot on my mind right now, so I might as well end my blog with a freewrite. Thank you Elbow. First of all, I was thinking about how we were discussing how we could write and in what environment, during Dave’s presentation. Ashley McNabb mentioned Yo Yo Ma, and I ...
[Link]The Writing Process » Final Post
Having a blog was great. Unlike other English majors, like Joey, and other History majors, like my roommate, this was my first UMW blog. I really enjoyed getting the chance to read through everyone’s posts. It was different than hearing responses in class, because I think it gave people who maybe were more shy about their work in class the same ...
[Link]Jennifer's 307 Blog » Let’s Hear it For the Blogs
When I was given this assignment, my stomach churned. I knew it would take a lot of effort to see blogs that would be exactly the same: the same topics of papers, responses to the same authors, even posting on the same day. What I found when I began reading the blogs was entirely different than my first reaction to getting ...
[Link]The Writing Process » The Disappearance of Creative Writing
The Disappearance of Creative Writing
In his book, Peter Elbow teaches the student how to write without a teacher. But, uh, what about the rest of us? Sure, I can relate to the concepts of Elbow now as a near-college graduate, but only because I was introduced to them by a teacher. Writing with a teacher seems to be the ...
[Link]The Places My Mind Takes Me » What I Have Learned
I figured I would finish this blog with a nice free write and see where my mind takes me. I have learned a lot in college, I’m not saying academically, even though that is obvious, but just in general. I want to put them out there, in writing, for other people to see. In doing [...] [Link]
ENGL 307 » Blogging, yay!
Normally, I really don’t like having to write blogs in my classes. It’s either too much work because we have to update it like every day, or it doesn’t seem to serve any real purpose. This blog, however, was actually really exciting to write. Since I already have one, it was fun getting to choose a different theme from my ...
[Link]Dave's ENG 307 » Blog Reflection
I am not really big on having my own public space. I always have been opposed to myspace. My dad has seen parents loose custody of their kids because of what they put on there. I rarely check facebook, and I only check it vainly to see how many people have left me a post. I don’t really respond back all ...
[Link]The Places My Mind Takes Me » The Real, Honest Places My Mind Takes Me
I wish I would have used this blog as a place to really show the class where my mind wanders to, but unfortunately I am lazy sometimes. Having my own public space is fun and exciting, but I could have utilized this space much more this semester. I love coming to the end of a [...] [Link]
ENGL 307 » My Writing Community: How I Love Them
So, I know that this is due at 11, but I like to give myself a little pressure to work under. Besides, reading everyone’s blogs was too much fun for me - I had to go back and look at them again this morning and pick out my favorite ones. It’s really cool seeing how much time some people put ...
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