Project Intro
For this project we were asked to write about something we are passionate about, whether that be music, food, a theme park, a movie, or really anything. It pushed us to create not only the best piece we've ever written and something we're proud of but also to truly enjoy the writing process.
Real-world writing purposes field guide
The purpose of this field guide was to help us differentiate the different types of writing purposes and to help us find which writing structure works best with our topic.
1 topic=18 topics
The cool thing about the 1 topic=18 topics is that we got to choose something that were passionate about then break it into 18 different reasons and subtopics of why were passionate about that topic! I chose a combination of express and reflect and inform and explain. I thought it was a wise choice being that I was conducting a study and reflecting on my experience.
Five minute quick-writes
The five minute quick-writes helped get a feel for what its like to write each writing purpose. This helped us choose which out of our 18 topics we wanted to write about.
Down draft
A down draft is where you just GET IT DOWN. Word vomit is a good way to describe it. You have an idea and you either write bullets of what you want to write about or you just type. Its like a first draft, only cooler. I would have a link to my down draft below but my version of a down draft for this particular piece was a dream journal. I wrote down my research and everyday experience with dreaming and lucid dreaming.
reverse-Engineered mentor text
This also was an assignment to help us with structure. We chose "mentor texts" that had a similar structure to what we wanted to achieve for our writing.
Final Draft
My favorite part about my writing is my explanation about the 5 stages of sleep. I think they were a good foundation to the piece and I went into detail and explained them thoughtfully and thoroughly. A part of the process of creating this piece I would like to include in writing my next piece would be thoughtfully choosing the right writing purposes. This kept me focused and organized on what I was going to write about, and I just found this really beneficial.
Reflection
I initially wanted to write about Disney but I feel like people would expect that from me. I love all things Disney and everyone knows it. It took me a while to do but I started to think about all the random things I got really into. Then I remembered a documentary I saw on Netflix a while back about lucid dreaming. The only thing I think I would change is that I would have wanted to started my study earlier and I would have wanted to write an actual down draft instead of the dream journal. The reason is because it would've made starting my piece easier. Other than that, I'm proud of my work.