Wednesday, October 24, 2012


Reading Perl’s “Understanding Composing,” has made me realized that I go through felt sense when I do my writings and doing recursiveness help organize my ideas in the writing. She said, “felt sense is when images, words, ideas, and vague fuzzy feelings that are anchored in the writer’s body.”  This is true for me. I’m aware of words and images in back of my head of my past experiences that can relate to the topic. This is also retrospective structuring because I’m using my past experience and ideas throughout my writing. When I write my paper I think about what is the answer professor is looking for and to get good grade. Perl has made this clear that projective structuring doesn’t help me to express my thoughts. I focus only on answering the questions that I think my professor will be please with. Felt sense occurs the whole time when I’m writing my papers. I’m thinking of ideas and feelings when I write.