Blog #5: A Look Back
Danny Ziegleman
December 10, 2015
Looking back on this year, with all the work that I have put in and the last essay due in just a few days, I find relief. I am glad that I have grown as a writer and thinker. Scott pushed me beyond my limits in terms of writing and I think that it is paying off. I now am able to think more critically about my writing, as questions like why and how instead of what. By reading other people’s essays and peer reviewing them, I am becoming a better critic of my own work. I look for specific instances where I could describe things differently. By becoming a better “self-critiquer” I am more capable of describing things in more detail and more specifically than before. Also, being specific instead of general is something I am still working on as a writer. The more specific I can be, the better the essay or what ever I am writing will be. There is an elegance in simplicity. However, the word choice is important to describe something in simple terms. Overall, I am excited to finish the last essay and my first term in college. I know that I will take the lessons from this course and apply them to the rest of my writing career.
It is nice to make progress in this class with all of you. I agree that being specific is an important thing in writing and I am also exploring how to write more specifically without being wordy. I think in the future writing assignments, I will keep asking myself questions to check if I explain or describe a thing detailed enough.
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