These past few weeks in class we have been writing our Literacy Narratives and since we turned in our first draft we have been doing different editing workshops in order to help us revise our papers and make them better and more interesting. On October 4th, Lacy had us do a drawing of the breakdown of our paper in order to figure out what our paper was lacking and what we could do in order to make it better.
This is my first drawing....
Then after we drew the first drawing Lacy told us to do another drawing and break down the original drawing even further.
Drawing number 2
I had never revised a paper like this before so I was interested to see what this form of revision would do in order to help make my paper better and I was amazed to realize how much information was actually in my paper. This form of revision also helped me to realize what my paper was lacking, whether it be descriptions of things, or even if I was spending too much time on a topic in the paper.
Having to do these drawings made the revision process of this paper much more fun and interacive, rather than having someone just go over your paper with a red pen and make marks where they thought you needed to change things. I can honestly say that I would enjoy doing revision activities like this in the future.
Hey Cory,
ReplyDeleteFirst off I can't remember doing this revision assignment, maybe it was the day when I was absent? Anyways I thought that this was an interesting post. I might try to use this method to revise my narrative, although the process does look a little complex. In addition I also agree that this process looks more creative and fun than the usual red pen (Or thats what I hope at least).
Hey Cory! I liked doing this assignment too. It was interesting to take a writing that seems so personal and to step back to examine its form. Personally I enjoyed trying to create an original form (playing with different shapes haha!) and then attempting to fit my literacy narrative back into that. I liked looking at what you came up with; you have nice handwriting!
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