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.
Khin, I am so glad you have a solid connection to your felt sense! That's the baseline skill for the writing process. But, of course, we need all three parts of the process in balance. It seems clear to me that you understand the three parts of the process Perl has presented. Good.
ReplyDeleteFurther considering the issue of projective structuring... That's why they say, even in testing conditions and-or writing under a time limit--always try to leave at least 5 minutes to read back over what you have written, make sure you don't have any really bad typos, factual errors, really loose or unclear sentences, or that you aren't contradicting yourself.
If we had more time to revise, I would suggest you think about splitting this up into two paragraphs: The second paragraph would begin with "When I write my paper I think about what is the answer professor is looking for and to get good grade." Because at this point, you shift from talking about what you are good at, to a problem you have with projective structuring and writing for teachers. Any time you have a major shift in topic or perspective, it's time for a paragraph shift.
Having the shift happen with one sentence just right before the other is too jarring for the reader. It feels like you are contradicting yourself, and I have to slow down and de-code to figure out what's going on. You don't want that. I know this was written fast, but I want you to develop a deep internal sense--a felt sense--of when you are shifting, and learn to hit that "enter" or "return" key. A shift is a paragraph.