reflection

I feel like I have learned new ways to approach an idea. I think that I am more comfortable with analytical pieces, such a thesis papers for MR. HINDLEY! but when it came to free-thinking pieces like the ones we had to do for composition it was harder for me to find new, fresh ways of thinking about something rather than using cliches and old things we've heard about so many times before. I think that's why the public interest essay was one of my stronger pieces because it was about a certain topic that you could write like a newspaper article or something. Conferencing about the dreading conclusion also helped me to think of several tactics of ending a piece, like full circle, or bringing up other questions/relating to past experiences, bleh something relative to the piece.
I think that my voice is slightly humorous. I have a "different" train of thought that comes through when I use humor to convey it. My writing basically sounds like me talking though sometimes I wish I sounded more "intellectual" and thought-provoking, like the people that use big words and whatnot. But then I think, "no actually I don't because that wouldn't be me, that'd be me trying to sound smarter and potentially making myself look like an idiot."
I still want to work on organization because sometimes I think that my papers could be better organized, other times I've used very effective organization, and it doesn't seem like a problem at all. I need to work on becoming more consistent with finding the right organization. Maintaining consistency in basically everything is really what I should be focusing on. For example, aside from organization, I've found that on some papers I used specific details in my descriptions, but in other parts and other papers I was vague. And although mentioned previously under the improvement category, I think that I can always continue to work on finding ways to develop a new look on things. new points of view that haven't been overused.
I've discovered that my "story" is a bit mundane, but what the heck, it's my story. I think the main topic reoccuring in my papers is school and dealing with the whole belief that what you do in high school is crucial to college which is then a deciding factor in your future, discussing about whether the general idea of "sucess" is really for everybody. In sophomore year I even remember writing about "what is success" when we were posed the question what is "quality" and the whole essential questions- "what kind of world is this" and "how should I live in it?" The whole "how should I live in it" question often relates to my "story" too.
Composition was interesting because many of the topics we had to write on were something I wouldn't have ever chosen to write about, such as the nature essay. It forced me to try new topics that weren't in my writer's "comfort zone".