My revision was actually something I really enjoyed writing. This paper allowed me to take views of mine from pervious papers and combine them into something that I believe really helped me to express myself. I combined my first paper “Reading as a Refuge” which was a paper that expressed my personal connection with reading with my fourth paper “New is Not Always Improved” which was a paper that discussed how I believe that online texts are not legitimate pieces of literature. In “New is Not Always Improved” I used only Birkerts’ views as to why online texts are not legitimate but I did not really have an outlet for my own views as to why they are not legitimate. Combining my first and fourth papers allowed me to express my own views as to why online text are not legitimate and for me that main reason is because they provide no refuge, no alternate world for the reader to immerse themselves in.
I believe this final project has allowed me to revise both “Reading as a Refuge” and “New is Not Always Improved” in the sense that I got to connect and elaborate on both of these ideas in ways that I could not do when originally writing the papers. Since this piece for me was especially personal, I believe that it helped me to grow as a writer in a way that the previous papers have not. I was given an outlet to express my personal opinions and I really enjoyed being able to do this. Since I was writing a paper that I enjoyed, I was able to spend time on it and really get my thoughts out there in a way that I find to be efficient.
Though I feel I have grown as a writer this year, I still feel that there is much more room for improvement. I know that I still have a problem with transferring my thoughts from my head in a way that I understand them to my projects so that others can effectively understand them as well. I also believe that I still need work with my writing grammatically in the sense that I am aware that I abuse semicolons and this sometimes causes me to have lengthy, run-on sentences. I do believe though that my growth in this class has been substantial and I have appreciated this opportunity.
