course reflections

Update...
As I'm finishing up my last two research papers for other classes, I've noticed I have become much more prepared for papers than I used to be.  My desk is a huge mess of notecards and post its and notebooks with quotes.  Yes, it's a mess, but deep down there's organization to it.  And more so than I used to have.  So I think a combination of doing so much writing to prepare for my paper for this class and seeing other writers' sometimes lack of organization has actually sunk in with me.  It seems about right that I would get it my senior year =).




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My writing process has begun to change in terms of just getting it out.  I still need to work on it, but watching students fight over tiny details helped me realize it's more important to get out ideas instead of focusing on specific words and stuff.  
Also, having to post drafts to the blog really helped me just write.  I honestly have been pretty bad at doing drafts before.  I try to write everything almost perfectly the first time.  Shame on me, I know.  But having to put them on the blog and knowing everyone else is too helped. 

That ^ relates to my finished products... which I "finish" (at least in some sense) sooner/easier, so I have more time and sanity to finish finishing, or revising and editing.  So that's changed.  

As I said in class, I think I'm hyper-sensitive of my coaching right now - especially when I don't know what to do.  So I need to do some free coaching to figure out what I naturally do.  And then I'd like to do some more reflection on how I've changed or what I still need to change.  

I've definitely become more aware that in coaching conversation, variety is key.... Saying things different ways and have other people/resources around to help with that communication.

Doing the outline for the Lunsford essay helped me really wrap my head around it, so I think that means for me, it's important to re-say what I read.  I think I brought some of that to my sessions because I tried to get the writer to say what he/she was thinking or whatever.