Sunday, December 10, 2006. By writing the essay, I was also able to release my feelings and finding a home for them. That it can open wounds and sew them shut. This is the beginning of a journey that will open myself and realize that it is okay to be who I am. Sunday, December 03, 2006.

Monday, December 11, 2006. I wrote this personal essay on the night when I met my boyfriend and realized a friend of mine was nothing more than a selfish human being. In this essay, I expressed some emotions about this night and I also realized I was better off without her. The stage of writing I was in I was still learning how to express emotions without over doing it. I knew that the assignment wanted a personal experience and that is what exactly the class and Dr. Chandler were going to receive.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006. What do we want to do with these blogs, anyway? In class we talked about blogging and commenting. I observed that the blogs have not really taken off yet in terms of you using them for your own purposes to develop writing and to connect to each other, and help each other out with the assignments. So we decided to continue with this experiment, and I said I would take this discussion into consideration as I grade. So what do you think? Drafting your Personal Essay.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006. This is the first thing that I sat down and wrote. or any kind of track at all. When writing essays, I must sacrifice my words for my audience. I stood there with my brother wrapped around my waist, staring at fate in the form of two daughters and a mother. How long could this go on for? She literally pictured what a vacuum sounds like and wh.

Monday, December 04, 2006. I figured using a focus like this would help me get past my issue with how writing the essay.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006. I already know what meal I want to cook. I try to make a mental checklist of the ingredients I need but would have to refer to the recipe. Writing is much the same. But what was my focus? I still had no shopping list for my essay. I chose the meal but had many recipes from which to choose. As I drafted my essay, I decided to create a travel.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006. Monday, December 04, 2006. A suitable opening for the focus is and always has been a problem for me.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Sunday, December 03, 2006. What did you like most? I really connected to a couple of my essays but felt that it was. Most satisfying to write about the plagiarism essay. It felt like I was purging myself of. I felt like I was coming clean from a past that was soiled with mistakes. It was cathartic and even if is never published; it felt very. Good to write and to get off my shoulders.

Monday, December 11, 2006. I was handed an assignment to write a nature essay. Afraid I was of the thought of having to write something on nature. I had no experience in writing such an essay. After much needed time to write about my subject matter, I thought that I would write on the season. I am not sure if the way that I wrote it is correct. Monday, December 04, 2006. Describe a point were you got stuck. I learned a lot .