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most helpful thing that I learned from the Gendlin's essay is about "felt
sense." The term "felt sense" is our own thought which progresses
in our mind time to time when heading to write about specific topic. Our piece
of writing should feel comfortable, easy and plain; but not confused. This is
what the term "felt sense" is. It talks about how the writer thinks
easily about the topic that he or she will be working on. He or she always
should be aware of their soft gut feeling, instead of worrying about pleasing
their audience. The writer should be expressing his or her thoughts in their
writing; especially knowing that this is the major step in the writing.
Moreover, the writer should go back or use the structure retrospective or
recursive to see if the writing is coherence or not. As a struggling write
myself, I not able to express myself in my writing because the whole time I am
worrying about what will be the audience reaction.
I am glad you are taking this opportunity to think about the reading in terms of your own writing issues. That is a big part of what I hope this class can offer in the second half. And you are certainly correct in identifying felt sense as a great idea! And, yes use it! Always begin with and return to felt sense. But also always try to at least finsih out the process with some projective structuring.
ReplyDeleteSo even in testing conditions, or when writing under a time constraint like you were here, DO be careful to leave yourself room for a certain amount of projective structuring. Good writing is about the balance between all three parts of the process. You have some LOCs that could have been prevented too easily to still be in here. I'm not saying that in such a short time you are expected to write a perfect response. I am just offering you the advice to leave a little time at the end and go back over things. And have the reading open while you write so you get basic names and terms right.
In the very first line you have the wrong name of the author of the essay we read, which could give the impression you did not read. I'm not saying you did not read, I'm just saying you have to be careful with stuff like that. It makes a bad impression and it is so easily fixed at the same time that readers can react badly, and this tendency increases in more professional settings. When writing about a text, it is important to keep that text open next to you, so you can consult it--precisely for the reason of checking these basics.
I did read the assignment and the reading. I dont know where my mind was when i was typing the author's last name. But, I will definitely keep these errors in my mind while taking the exam and try not to make mistakes. Yes, next time it would be great idea to have the open and use the book.
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