Ahhhh feels good to be back
I feel I should have a new section or folder or something to divide up my different courses blog postings, Calvin will do!
Trial at free writing
I dont usually have a problem with the blank page - i tend to be a profuse writer and then a big deleter. I also tend to keep within the word limit and have thousands of appendicies which dont neccessarily add to the body of text but i include because i have worked on it and feel it is somehow good and slightly relevenat and that it may give me some points ( you never know) However the comments i recieve on essays tend to be
- I have gone over the word limit
- I need to be more critical
- The appendicies are not relevent
- Things in the appendicies should have been in the main text
- I should have expanded on specific points
I say in my head - but i had no more space to include it in main text / expand on it / be critical of it
So from this i already see that it is my focus that is the problem - if i focused more at the early stages and i could come up with a structure / essay plan as i was shown at University and write to the focus rather than writing about everything in the area and hope to pull together a direction.
Ahhhhh - reflection
I enjoyed the experience of free writing, it gets thoughts flowing, i need to improve my typing accuracy as the interuption of words the wrong way round and i's not capitalised interrupts the flow and pauses thoughts and creativity
Keywords: Academic writing, Free writing