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Reflections About My Own Blog
I think that my blog served two purposes. It gave me a place to say things as well as share my work. I have read my classmates blogs and some of them comment on how they hope no one finds their blogs.(Brandon) I think that if you write it down and [...]

Upon examining my classmates’ blogs I found that each one had a different style. Some of the blogs, like Ashley M.’s title and tagline, “Writing Process: Putting some Elbow grease into my writing…ha” had personal touches that reflected a little personality into them. And Ashley needs to make hers different because she, Margaret, Kerri and [...]

Miller views the self as a photo of the that person on paper, in the form of text. All the outside factors are effecting the person in the picture. If the environment is hot, the person is sweating, if the environment is cold, they are shiverring. Change of clothes, change of attitude, change in environment, [...]

I think that imitation is a nice way to learn about great writing, but, like Corbet, I think that if a student spends too much time studying and copying a certain author then the students may not develop their own voice, but a voice that sounds like the author channeled through them. They become a [...]

I think Hashimoto reinforces Elbow and his idea of voice and the creative soul. Hashimoto says that Elbow thinks either you write with voice or your writing is dead. I’m not sure what Hashimoto would say about Bartholomae’s work. I think about it and I wonder if Hashimoto would argue that Bartholomae is wrong because [...]

Muckelbauer claims that Farmer and Arrington “not only emphasize the apparent opposition between invention and imitation, but hint at the possibiltity that imitation itself is caught up in the very logic of appearances that structures this opposition.”(64) Also, “if imitation is somehow involved in producing appearances, we can justifiably suspect that the apparent opposition between [...]

This is where you post your comments about my work. Don’t worry, i won’t be offended. 

To be quite honest i have never thought about my race, gender, religious views or sexuality as paying any part in my writing process. I think that my be because i am a white, male, heterosexual in America, which is pretty much the common author type. The rest of the authors; females, homosexuals, minorities, these [...]