GWRTC Project 1

For my topic idea, I have decided to do a learning experience within my junior year English class about the writing process. For an entire year, it was hammered into our brains that what mattered was the writing process and not necessarily the finished product. In my experience as a student, I was usually always just working for the "A" so I really only cared about that final product. No matter how I worked to get it, as long as the grade was high, I was content. However, after leaving that class, I had a total new perspective on the idea of writing, and that alone started me thinking about becoming an English major and writing my own works. I was so inspired by Mr. Cannon (my then teacher) that I continued to have writing discussions with him throughout senior year and am still in direct contact with him for advice and ideas. In my experience, I learned to contradict what I had previously thought I knew about writing. I learned that I wasn’t nearly as good a writer as I had thought, and how everything I thought I knew about the process was useless. Revision and simplification are now part of my writing game all in attempts to just make the process easier. I used to search through the dictionary and thesaurus on Microsoft word to try and make my work sound smarter when now I know all I was doing was making it obvious I didn’t understand what I was talking about. So again, for my topic in the paper, I’m choosing a broad memory that lasted throughout my junior year English class wherein my opinion eventually shifted dramatically from what it once was.