Freewriting Excercise 1

Opening the barn doors to my brain. That is what I think of Freewriting. I remember last semester starting freewriting and I was thinking how great it felt to just go for it, let the thoughts and themes and any crazy idea I have just flow out. I really love poetry and feel like this is close to what it must feel like for natural poets to just break loose and whip out the masterful interconnected thoughts that can melt hearts and Blow minds. Where do I go next? I just write about a theme that comes to me and detail it or draw up a chart in my head that shows the lnks to side stories and hidden stages of events that might transpire while I'm still coming up with some kind of creative place to try to organize it all into something semi cohesive but why? Is it a freewrite? or an organization? a critic will look at it and find many ways to blast it but there it is still hanging around waiting for the next time I grab my laptop or pick up my pen. Freewriting is like pure just doing.

Summary of Chapter 46 Writing about Texts

          In Chapter 46 of Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker, I learned about ways to engage in your reading using annotation and seeing the purpose of the text or advertisement, as was the case with the McDonald's ad that is trying to persuade onlookers that McDonald's food is healthy. The main goal of summarizing is to state the main idea and key points of the text. Analyzing is breaking down the whole picture into little bits than can be disected and understood from different perspectives and different intentions to give you a clearer picture of the purpose and what the author uses to give the reader the perspective intended.
       

Brief Autobiography

       Hello my name is Eric Strang. I'm English/Scottish/German/Greek as far as I know.I work as an engineer tech at a medical device company here in wonderful Santa Rosa. I've lived here most of my life and have attended the SRJC on and off since 1993. I plan on graduating with my A.S. in Natural Sciences next year. I really enjoy attending the J.C., and will probably come back for classes even after I've graduated. The atmosphere, physically and spiritually is wonderful. My family and I often take walks around the campus on the weekends.
        I enjoy traveling, and have been to a few countries in Europe and Southeast Asia. I paint with acrylics and play guitar and bass guitar when I'm not maintaing "normal" household duties. I look forward to getting thoroughly schooled in English as well as my other class, Pols1, this semester.

Thanks!

EStrang