WRD111-44

Kolf, Emily

2014-01-18

Caskey, Damon V

 

Topic: Reflect on yourself as a writer. What is your process? Does it work for you? What aspects of your writing are strong and which areas do you think you need to improve on?

 

If you were to view this recent article (if you wish to, please create an account and let me know so I can give it access), you would find I the following is really a reiteration:

I do have a large body of written work, but am not by any fair standard a “writer”. It simply isn’t within my purview. That said I am a trained and experienced verbal communicator, particularly with improvisational public speaking. When writing, I attempt to leverage this skillset by imagining I am speaking to a group and simply attempt to transcribe the resulting stream of consciousness.

It’s a crude method and of little use for formal research, but does allow quick fabrication of content and by nature is vocally presentable. The detriments are incoherence, source citing and poor reading flow. These are all areas I wish to improve upon.

A semi-professional profile with (silly) picture may be found here. Thank you for reading. I look forward to working with you and the class body!

DC