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