When creating my first draft, it was pretty complicated because I was trying to perfect my first draft, which is a habit that I have had for years, but I was also trying to remember the article "Shitty First Drafts" that I read and reminding myself that it is okay to make mistakes on the first draft. My experience with writing my draft was sort of different from the text because I continued to revert back to old habitats, and I was not completely comfortable in writing down my thoughts imperfectly. I am so used to treating my first draft as my final draft, and I tend to stress myself out as a result. My experience was also similar to the text in a way that I did at some point just write down my thoughts instead of going into deep thinking on how I can make a clever statement. Therefore, I have mixed feelings on my draft, but I know I will be able to treat my first draft as my first draft.
Navigating Genres Reading Response- Taylor Wilhelmy
"Navigating Genres" by Kerry Dirk makes you really think about what a genre is. Whenever I thought about genres, I always thought of it as the type of writing that is being created. All throughout school, we were taught that a genre was used to describe a novel such as nonfiction, fiction, fantasy, science fiction, etc. I never really thought of a piece of writing having a genre but now, after reading Dirk's piece, I now realize that writing does have a genre. Dirk also points out that genres are used to help people accomplish a goal. I never thought a genre could do that. I always thought it was used to just categorize novels or short stories but, now that I have read this piece, I now realize that genres are important because, if you write in the wrong genre, the message that you want to portray can come across completely differently then you had intended. The example that Dirk used of George Washington and his State of the Union Address. By using this genre, Washington...
I found writing the first draft to be quite difficult as well. I am so used to perfecting my work that I actually kept re-reading my draft to make sure it made sense.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that writing the first draft was difficult. I also try to perfect my first draft and found myself rereading and editing it over and over again.
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