Brittany



Memoir This was the first paper for English 103. At first I wasn't really sure what was to be expected from my papers in this class. I usually didn't spend very much time at all with papers so I wasn't sure if I really had to try or if I could keep throwing things together. I ended up throwing this together. But luckily the draft was due and needed revised. Alyson revised my paper for me, she really helped me start this class well because her revisions throughout the paper changed it a lot. I wasn't sure which memory to write about or how to make someone feel like they were there, that part was really hard for me.

Open Letter After receiving the memoir back I realized that with college papers you have to put a lot of work into them. Getting feedback from Dr. Hartman showed me that there is a lot that I need to work on with my writing. This paper was a little easier for me because I knew what I wanted to write about and where I wanted to go with it. For this paper we had conferences which really helped me a lot with trying to organize it and make it a good paper. Also, it was easier being able to write this letter to a specific person instead of writing it knowing it's to nobody except the teacher reading it.

Research Paper Research papers have always been hard for me. This paper had an open topic and I felt sort of stuck. Luckily we were able to work in groups, that was nice in the aspect of picking a topic and finding good, credible information and sources for the topic. Of course actually putting all of the information together and making it flow was still hard. I'm not sure what it is about research papers, but I think it just feels too formal and I usually feel like there isn't enough information out there for me to talk about.

Multi-Genre Multi-Genre Paper I was really excited for this paper, I had never heard of it before. The concept seemed pretty easy and I thought it would be fun to do. It was a lot of fun writing this paper because there were so many different ways you could do it. It was very open and creative, there wasn't a specific audience or anything like that. I chose to write a story that I made up, that was easy for me because I can think of things like that. It wasn't an experience or a thought, it was just a made up thing that I could write in any way I wanted. Plus being able to do it online and having multiple pages really made it more organized and interesting.