Writing About Familiar Topics

I revisit Fulweiler’s article, but this time, I paid more attention on the fact that whenever I write I don't think on a specific audience, rather, on generating sentences that somehow could not please an audience, except myself.  Those sentences come from my other self, the Spanish identity, through which I am trying to make meaning out of the English language.  The article states that through the construction of sentences we are building meaning of our world.  I must recognize that most of the time I don’t pay attention on the shape of my words, but, on the flow of my thoughts.  However, as a graduate student, I am very concern about getting excellent scores since I need them for further academic references.  This is a fact that most of times place constraints over my writing style, and on my cognitive abilities of developing a cohesive text.  Yes, it sounds as if I were writing for a grade, indeed, probably most students think about their grades when they are writing a piece of discourse.  I’d like to comment about my literacy autobiography assignment for many reasons, but the most important ones are:  

‒        Our Professor didn’t assign us an unfamiliar topic, rather, we were to write about something that motivates and forces us to write.   

‒        Also, I’d like to mention how my peers reacted very positive to my draft.  They were very professional and respectful when pointing out my syntactic mistakes.   Yes, I don’t like commas and sometimes I abuse them a lot, or left them out.

‒        As a final comment, I may not become a successful writer, but at least, Dr. Cauthen makes me feel that I can write and that nobody will think that I don’t know the language.