At this point of the semester, everything seems to be going pretty well. My Chemistry class is pretty long, but it's okay because it is a very interesting class and it is out on Fridays. My English class is great because my teacher (yes you Mrs. Ingram) is really cool and down to Earth. She makes us right and reflect a lot, but it's okay because she also encourages us to be our best. It is pretty much what I expected coming to college. It did catch me off guard how many papers were due in one week. I'll get used to the pace soon.
Writing and work shopping on my first draft was good. The writing was the easy part after I found my niche and comfort zone with my writing. The workshop was very beneficial because it helped me to see my writing from other people's eyes so I know how other people view my story and my writing.
I am working on my grammar and adding some more detail and background to some of my characters in my story. Revising is looking for things to correct and editing is the actual act of fixing those errors.
I am still trying to get use to the nightly reading that we have to do and taking notes because I never really had to do much of that in high school. The teachers gave you reading guides to follow and fill out so you never really had to learn to take your own notes. I have no idea how I am going to manage this yet, but I hope to figure out by the second or third week.
No questions at this point in the game. :)
The pace of this class if definitely faster than it would be if you took ENGL 1101 in the fall, but we'll slow down soon; the course is front-loaded to get us going on the right foot. You are definitely already on the right track about revision and editing! Revision, when you break down the word, is re-vision, or re-seeing. You re-see your work and try as best you can to see it as a reader to try to figure out how to best appeal to your readers. That means looking at "big picture" stuff like content, organization, word choice, and style, the "meat" of your paper. When you edit, you're looking at the "skin," the grammar and punctuation, the "packaging." It's all important.
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