In Joan Didion's, "Why I Write", she explains in her essay exactly as the title suggests – the reason she writes. As mentioned in the essay, an idea in which gratifies her proposition of writing is that it aids her in the analysis of the world she witnesses around her. Having a pen to convey her reflections and senses, benefits her understanding of what she sees and how she thinks. To clarify, writing is thought-provoking and therefore can think more clearly when she records on paper as she describes on page two of her dissertation, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”. She also expresses that if it weren’t for her limited thinking, she wouldn’t have become a writer, which shows more clarity for the idea of her proposition.
I myself write and type also, but usually only in short spurts, not essays. When I watch videos on YouTube, read a blog, or when I scroll up and down the Facebook page, I type a response to what I see. Sometimes my response may be a compound argument, a short reply, or sometimes a post on Facebook about an event in my life. I write notes when needed in class or when playing a video game. The times I compose an essay is when it is a requirement for college. I have multiple reasons for writing, and one is – it helps me to remember things that I believe I’ll forget if I don’t record important thoughts instantly on a paper or phone. Another reason is to fulfill a graded assignment in school. But the most important reason of all is to express my thoughts as a response to what I see as a reflection of my character. When it comes to writing whether it is a quick note or a book proposition, there is much learning involved in literature. Reading someone’s writing can be a life-changing experience because it shows different perspectives of peoples’ reality. Learning from each other’s thoughts and experiences helps us to grow and can change the world through knowledge.
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Melanie
1/31/2017 01:35:43 pm
"it helps me to remember things that I believe I’ll forget if I don’t record important thoughts instantly on a paper or phone."--I'm the exact same!
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Samantha Hawkins
1/31/2017 09:20:30 pm
I love how you wrote towards the end, "Reading someone’s writing can be a life-changing experience because it shows different perspectives of peoples’ reality." I agree with this, reading another persons work can change your perspective on things you thought differently about before reading their article.
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Sabatino
2/1/2017 05:45:15 am
I echo the previous comments on your blog post. I appreciate how you discuss writing as a meaning-making activity that blends the personal with the social. I hope our course blogging community allows all three of you to "read other people's writing" to experience "different perspectives" and hopefully to have "life-changing experiences."
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