My Experince of Writing II

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov


Six months after recounting my experience of writing in the prof, I dare to say that I find myself at a different stage of the process of writing and this is due to:

First, I have written different types of texts such as articles, profiles, biodatas, tales and both opinion and for and against essays. This experience of writing different types of texts is both challenging and motivating. Challenging because I had to learn how to cope with these texts and respect the structure and motivating because I believe that if I had spent the whole year writing narratives I would have lost interest in developing and improving this skill. Variety, without a shadow of a doubt, is essential to keep students motivated.

Second, I consider incredibly fruitful the process of writing different drafts and having feedback from my peers and tutors before having my writing graded by my teacher. I have learnt to pay close attention to range, register, style, organization and content which I had never acknowledged before. Every person in my process of writing has been of great help. What I most value of all of them is that they didn’t clarify my doubts by just correcting grammar or lexical mistakes, they made suggestions, put questions to me so I could reflect on them and reach an answer on my own.

Third, writing used to be a real time-consuming task for me. I could spend days trying to write a narrative. Along the year, I have managed to write diverse texts in less time. In hindsight, I think this was possible because of the structure of the texts. Besides, even though I still disapprove of writing any type of text in a final exam, this year, when I had to write an article and an essay in class-which is similar to writing in a final instance-I didn’t feel under pressure. These experiences were much more gratifying since I had the tools to write, I knew the structures, the topics had been discussed in class beforehand and I knew I had to focus on certain features such as content, range, register and so on.

In a nutshell, though I still believe that I have to work on improving “My third eye” and the layout, I consider it has been a successful experience. I don’t feel panic when facing a blank sheet of paper with a title. I learnt how to catch the reader’s attention-the introductions were the strong points in my writings- and what characteristics a skillful writer should develop.