Paul

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Memoir "Worth it" I started this paper off with no idea what I was going to write about. I thought about all the different things that have happened in my life but nothing I though about was good enough to write a paper on. I thought that there was no life changing experience that has happened to me or something courageous I have done. I than began to think and realized that it did not have to be a courageous or life changing experience but just a story. I had plenty of stories I could write about so I chose the story of me having the game winning touchdown in my 8th grade football year. It ended up being a pretty good piece of writing. I really enjoyed writing it and remembering the story.

[|Letter]Letter to my sister This was one of the hardest pieces of writing I did. It took me forever to think about what I was going to write about but when I decided to write to my sister about smoking I knew I would be happy I did. I had to be very careful in writing this though because not only was it an assignment but a letter I would give my sister. I had to make sure I met all the criteria while also relating to my sister in a way that will help her. I did give the letter to my sister but she has not said anything about it but I hope she at least read it.

[|acadmemic research argument]"Violent Video Games" This was another paper that was hard to start. We had to pick a topic that the four people in my group, with very different ideas, all agreed on. We finally came to the conclusion of whether or not violent video games affected children. I looked up all the information I could and wrote it all down. I finished my first draft but was not happy with it. Even Alex after reading it told me that it didn't flow very well. I then met with you to go over the papers. You made it very clear to me that I didn't need to change any of the writing but put the same writing in different spots. We divided the body of my paper into 3 sections. I then moved those three sections around until the paper made perfect sense and the paper came together well and the organization of the paper was way better.

Multigenre essay "Family" I began this assignment thinking I was going to write about all of my past jobs. I then heard the class all say what they were writing about and by the time it got to me there were already four people doing theirs about past jobs. I did not want to do what everyone else was doing so I quickly changed mine to family. My family means a lot to me and I knew that I would be able to find different things about them. I then had to fully understand what the assignment was. Once I found out what it was I was a little discouraged to find out it was a "creative" project. I never really liked being creative and when I get an assignment I want to know exactly what I am going to do with it. As I went through collecting things for my project I had fun with it. I also realized maybe I was a little more creative than I thought and now will not be as discouraged when I am told to do a out of the box writing assignment.

[|blog] I have never had a diary, a journal, blog, or any type of relaxed writing. Any writing I did it was because a class had me do it. Each writing assignment I did had to fit certain criteria and though I needed to pick a topic, never was on my own. Blogging was something I never would have thought of as something to do for a class. When I first heard we had to write one a week, my first thought was I don't have something to write about every week. For the first couple weeks I thought that but it seemed each week I had something to write about. Sometimes I would be doing something and think I am definitely going to blog about this. I remember we had the fire alarm go off at 2:30 at night and as I was waiting outside in the cold one of the first things I thought about was "I can't wait to complain about this on my blog." I really enjoyed the relaxed writing for the blog and will continue to keep blogging about things that happen in my life.