Journal: Week 1
For week one of the Edx Academic and Business writing course we have to journal our experiences of writing and what area/s we wish to improve on.
In this post, l’m going to include the prompt questions and provide my thoughts to each below.
1. What type of writing you typically do?
I don’t write a lot to be honest, but l teach academic writing skills to undergraduate students. Over the past year l have done a little copy writing for the university l worked at, emailing and paraphrasing students’ problematic paragraphs.
2. What do you think about writing. Do you enjoy it? Dread it?
Writing gives me a stomach-ache; the process is a lot of hard work with all the redrafting, rethinking and re-configuring of sentences and ideas. I am not a particularly linear thinker, so everything comes out in a rush like blasts of color on a blank canvas. As a result, l tend to find writing a wearisome task that is time consuming and laborious because l need to structure my randomness into coherent and cohesive pieces of writing. However, l guess when you see the final draft the effort is completely worth it. In sum, writing is a rewarding but gut-wrenching and difficult process.
3. What area of writing you need to improve most. Do you want to be a better essay writer? A more creative writer? A good business writer?
From a practical perspective, l would like to be a better writer all round: i would like to sharpen my writing skills to improve my abilities as a teacher. Engaging in the writing process helps me to understand what the students experience and different ways to approach academic and business writing. Secondly, l would like to make up for a year of little writing; after completing my masters l promised l would blog and keep up my writing skills, but l haven’t completed a single post.