Response #3

In this assignment, my writing technique has changed, only slightly, due to the requirements of this paper. The quickness at wich the rough draft was due made me put much less effort into making the rough draft high quality, letting it be a very rough rough draft i was able to write it by the deadline. However, after it is written, i will still follow the process of gradually looking over it and working on it a little bit every day until it is due.

originally, i was planning on making the rough draft high quality, and then doing less work until the due date , then working on it that night.

Response #2

1. Reflect on a time when storytelling became an essential tool for you when trying to solve an issue or inform someone. Was it successful or did it fail? Why? What methods did you use? Be as specific as possible.

one time stands out where storytelling would have helped as a way to inform someone of a method to solve a problem. This past summer, my friends and I went on a road trip, with the final destination set as colorado, specifically rocky mountain national park. But, it was going to be a three day journey, which meant we were going to have to stop and sleep at least twice.
We thought we knew how the camping was going to go, but it turned out that we had alot to learn. the first night we were going to prepare "TFDs", or tin foil dinners. we got the TFDs together, but my friends were having too much trouble starting a fire, so i offered my help. unfortunatley, due to my history, they were having none of it and refused my advice. Had i been able to tell a convincing story they would have believed me, but i was not able to and had to box them out while i demonstrated my fire building abilities.

Response #1

My most significant writing experience occurred two years ago, in junior year of high school. We were assigned to write about a significant person in American politics from the 20 century for the culminating assignment in an American history class. The paper, as assigned, was supposed to be between 9 and 11 pages, not a short paper by any means. Papers in that class had historically been a challenge for me, with a C average across my previous papers. And “luckily” for me, I had chosen, as the topic of this most recent paper, former Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who had served as a senator from Arizona during the spans of 1953–1965 and 1969–1987. Mr. Goldwater happened to be my teachers “favorite person” and was worried that my paper, which she did not expect to be very good, would not do this great man justice.
With these expectations in mind, I broke my usual form of starting a paper a few days before it was due and started on the paper immediately. Every day I would either write anywhere form a paragraph to a page or go over what I had already written, refining my words and making sure there were no foolish grammar errors that would detract from my paper. I progressed in this fashion for about a month, up until the week before the paper was due. Feeling confident about my work, I decided to meet with the teacher to ensure I was on the correct path to an excellent paper, one that would do my teacher proud. After that meeting I was worried for my grade and the quality of my paper. As my teacher had said, I had all the facts necessary in my paper, but the formatting was all wrong. Luckily, I still had a week to get my paper together and was able to get the paper in and I did well on it.