room for improvement

Since I didn’t take ENC1101, I was unfamiliar with crots and workshopping, but over the last couple weeks I have begun to understand what is expected of me. Getting my first 2 drafts revised has helped me learn how to write a good crot. I’m very glad I was able to get a feel for what Kim is looking for through the drafts rather than turning in a paper that is not well formulated. Now that I have the concept of a crot down, I can continue to expand my imagination in writing new crots as well as refining the ones I have already written. I am continually improving and making strides in my crots.

By seeing how I can better improve my own crots, I have also begun to enhance my revising skills. Equipped with an increased comprehension of crots, my workshopping is also seeing improvements. Knowing the time and effort others have put into reading over my own work, I am making sure to put in the time and effort, on my own end, necessary to provide helpful insight, in the hope of helping my classmates in any way possible. For the most part, I have been very impressed and inspired from my group’s writings. They have shown great depth and detailed description. For the first draft I have left my comments and hope they were received well, ultimately enhancing the crots in the process. Reading my classmates crots has greatly helped me realize how my own crots should look and sound. Workshopping as a whole has been very helpful to me and I am looking forward to continuing them over the coming weeks.

As for my conference, other than the trip to the dungeon in Dodd, I found it to be very beneficial. Going over my draft with Kim was great. She really communicated clearly with me what her expectations were for the crots and what I could do personally to improve them. As we read through my work, I gained a great deal of insight and several key components to work on. Enhancing my description and detailed interactions as well as more in depth dialogue should go a long way in strengthening my final draft. Hopefully I can continue to make great strides on my paper and move closer to perfecting the final copy.

Overall I think the workshopping and revising has been very beneficial to me and I believe in the future it will reap positive results. Getting practical critiques complemented by encouraging reassurances has been very useful to me already in just the few weeks I’ve been writing these crots. With my classmates and Kim’s suggestions and criticisms my comprehension and cohesion have grown immensely. Taking and applying these things are helping me refine my writing at a much higher level. I also believe that by workshopping and reading over others’ works should help me when I read over my own work and hopefully correct some of the errors made or alter some things in order to enhance the paper as a whole. As my writing continues to improve, I look forward to continuing these workshops and conferences in the coming months.