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My Writing Story

Growth in Writing

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Cia ElderDepartment of HDFS, UNCG​ELC 745- Writing as Meaning-Making & Craft​Dr. Kathleen Edwards​Fall 2024​

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Academic Writing

Routine care

Writing Engagement

Sprouting My Writing Relationship

Trust the prpocess

Budding Inspirations

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Tools to bloom

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Bouquet of Writing

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Threats to Growth

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Nurturing Environment

Routine for Writing

  • Picking homework playlist
  • Having a clean area/space
  • setting timers
  • create checklists of sections
  • phone call my mom when I'm stuck
  • Read aloud my completed parts and edit as I go
  • Add in stretch times and snack breaks

Let's Talk About Academic Writing...

  • Formalized, grounded in research, and produced in academic settings
  • Gained knowledge from school and university settings
  • Resistance to lack of creativity, singular paths to completion, and research articles being a sole provider of knowledge

Writing as Meaning Making

Similar to plants, writing grows over time and can be quite a sight to experience with the right conditions for growth.

  • Using tools support my research development, editing, orgranizing, and finalizing to share my finished product
  • Writing begans with my ideas, leading into the research, synthesizing the literature, then connecting it to my focal interest
  • Writing doesn't always come easily, but these tools help me get there

Writing Tools

Writing in the Palm of my Hands

  • Taken time and connecting with collaborators that actually listen to what I am intending
    • teachers in school, advisors, youth development professionals, community organizers

Obsessed with reading mythology and loved doing creative writing classes

High School

Middle School

Loved to write songs, plays, and take observations of nature

Elementary School

Won my first writing contest and read it aloud at the school

Unorthodox Writing Tactics

  • Mini Dance Parties
  • Mindfulness Breathing
  • Workout Sessions
  • Cleaning the House
  • Drink Celsius and Multi-Task
  • Watch Episodes of Law and Order: SVU

Dr. Jean Rhodes

Writing Inspirations

Michelle Alexander

John Green

Aldous Huxley

Jean Rhodes: -Professor of Psychology -Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring at the University of Massachusetts Boston - Focuses on positive youth development, mentoring, and transitioning to adulthood

John Green - American Author and Youtuber - Creator of "Looking for Alaska (2005)," "Fault in Our Stars (2012)", "Paper Towns (2008)," "Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)" - Favorite books as a teenager and loved how I could read every book with ease

Aldous Huxley - English writer and philosopher from the - Wrote one of my favorite books from high school " Brave New World"- 1930s - led me to think more alternatively and question our set up

Michelle Alexander - American writer and Attorney - Creator of " The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" (2010) - She addresses the realities for people of color and the systems that continue to perpetrate our communities

Writing with music can be very calming for me and it gives me a sing along break if needed.

Typically I write earlier in the mornings or late at night.

Sat at a desk on my own in proximity to nature helps my mind feel ease.

  • Professors/Teachers have often weathered my writing plant
  • Perfectionism has also made my plant droop

SOLUTIONS:

  • Constrctive Feedback
  • Letting me lead
  • Finding writing methods that work for me
  • Setting time aside
  • Asking for Clarification

Wilting Effect

  • Negative feedback and the DREADED red pen
  • lack of creativity opportunities
  • Procrastination!!

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Step 1

Mind Mapping

Step 2

Laying Out My Sources

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Step 3

Writing

I begin to draw and connect my ideas on paper. I make as many bubbles as possible to connect to my main topic.

I organize my sources with my ideas. I'll often make spreadsheets or write down key takeways from articles to refer to later.

I begin with my introduction and begin to break down my writing into sections. I edit as I go and input sources too.