This week was such an enjoyable week! Monday, we got half way through our presentations over our literary journals/magazines, which we will be continuing with tomorrow during class. I really enjoyed the literary journal activity we had to perform, especially because it was my first time being introduced to them. After researching my own, and listening to my classmates speeches, I learned a great deal of information. On Wednesday, we had a workshop day for our first poem or short short, which will then be revised again for our final portfolios.
Workshop days are a great way to receive both positive and negative feedback from our peers. For Wednesday's workshop we were to pick one of our previous graded writings, and choose one specific way to revise it off a list of ways to revise. After splitting up into groups, depending on when our birthday was, we each read our work aloud to the others in our group while the others silently took notes, and focused on the workshop guidelines. After that, one by one we would tell each other what thoughts and ideas we had jotted down. I think it really helps to get feedback from my own classmates, that it is from teachers all the time. My only concern with revising my own work so many times, is that sometimes I feel it makes it worse than it already was. After so much revising to one piece of work, it can completely change the writing.
After really focusing on revision this week, I have realized that when trying to revise an already good piece of writing, it certainly takes creativity and thinking outside the box to find places needed for improvement or change in any way. Showing creativeness in short shorts, and especially poems can always improve the piece, and make it more enjoyable for the reader. Keeping an open mind before reading every piece of work can definitely make adding creativity much easier on the reviser.
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