WJ #6

Writer's Journal #6 - Your Writing Practices

OVERVIEW
Throughout this course you will think and write about your relationship to your own writing practices; in fact, a sizable portion of your final portfolio will deal with this relationship. Being aware of one’s writing practices and shaping those practices help writers to become more efficient and effective as they produce various texts.
DIRECTIONS
In this Writer’s Journal, you will have the opportunity to explore your relationship to writing, your writing practices, and how this relationship might change in the course of this class. To help you in this reflection, please respond to the following questions:

• What role has writing played in your life? Describe your relationship to writing and language.
  
• Writing is my personal advisor, a way of therapy and with a little bit of exaggeration, it is my kind of weed. When I feel stressed or overwhelmed by situations and when I don't know what to do,  I usually search for private and quiet place and pull out a note book from my bag. What I do in this quiet and private place with my note is concentrating the situation that I have, breaking down all the problems and looking for actionable plans. Going through this routine, my mind is cleared up and then I can tackle down difficulties of my life. In other words, writing has been usually very personal for me, unless I write for school papers or work reports.
  
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• How would you describe your previous writing experiences, overall? Whether good or bad, in what ways have your writing experiences prepared you for, or led you to, this course?
  
• I think I pretty much well explained my previous writing experiences in the above. I like writing but sometimes I felt limitations as to expressing my thought in writing and I wish I could develop writing skills so that I can more effectively and efficiently convey my ideas in writing.
  
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• What do you hope to do with writing in the future? How might you draw upon prior writing experiences in order to achieve those goals? What do you need to practice in order to be a more successful writer?
  
• As I am dreaming of being a professor/researcher in the future, I hope I can share my research results and ideas with academic colleagues and students efficiently and effectively. I am not afraid of expressing myself in writing which is good to achieve my goal, however I need to practice using rhetorical knowledge and writing collaboratively which I don't feel confident on the other hand.
  
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• What do you hope to gain from this writing course and its members? What are your expectations for yourself in this course? What are your expectations for the other members of the course?
  
• I hope to obtain lots of knowledge in terms of writing skills as I have not focused on writing itself previously. In addition, I hope to gain diverse views from peers and faculties of this course. For myself, I hope to participate more actively, voice up and not to be intemidated.