Blog 9

During class this week we learned about Aesthetics and ways to improve our writing. I learned that Aesthetics is a set of principals underlying and guiding a particular artist or movement and is a appreciation of or criticism of the beautiful. After learning this in class, we were to get into groups and look at the Aesthetics of the poem or short story we were given. We had to discuss if we liked it or not, what we think beauty is or if beauty was in our piece of work and what the basic underlying principals were as well. For homework on Monday we were to choose five stories from IR and look at the Aesthetics of it. I really enjoyed this because it gave me practice and a better understanding on how to use Aesthetics in pieces of work. Learning what Aesthetics was, defiantly helped me look more into each piece of work that was handed out to the class and for our homework. I've never heard of this word before and it seems very simple to understand.

I missed class Wednesday and seem a little confused on what is going on for our presentation we're suppose to present Monday. From the looks of it, it seems the class learned more ways on how to edit their own work and did workshops to improve their skills when writing. To be honest, I do not understand what we're suppose to do for this Lit Journal presentation. Oncourse says we are to go to a web site and pick a journal then read and write about it? I went to the website and picked of what I think is a journal, but I'm not sure. I don't understand what we are suppose to do and am quiet lost so I wont be giving a presentation Monday because I do not know what to do!

For the revising of our work and re-writing of our previous poems and stories I feel like I'll have a hard time doing so. I'm not creative what so ever, so I need to find ways on how I can make my work better. Although,I enjoy reading my classmates work then trying to change my work on what I learned from their work, but like someone said in one of the blogs, I feel like I'm copying. I will do my best in what is due for our journal portfolio and hopefully understand what is going on with this whole presentation thing tomorrow.