Week 1 Posting

For the first semester in English 103 our first assignment we had a to compose a personal narrative. This paper focused mainly on the past three years of my life. My professor required us to talk about emotional times whether the times were happy or sad. I started the narrative by outlining all the major events from Junior and Senior year. After I had written down all these ideas I continued to add more detail and gave it more of a story-esque feel. I wanted to put as much emotion into my paper as possible so the audience would be able to take a step back and feel as if they are in my mind reliving the same moments. I did not have music playing in the background; well none that was meant to influence my writing. The only time I've ever done that is last year in AP English we looked at pictures from the holocaust and for homework we were to write a poem from either a Jewish perspective or a German's perspective. I had purposely put on  "Into the West" be Enya because it was such a moving song and I felt it related to the holocaust. 

I feel editing is taking the whole paper apart, dissecting it, combing through it with a fine tooth-comb. This is the stage where you make all of your major changes. Revising however, is where you read over your work to check if there are any misspellings or incorrect punctuation usages.