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We're living in a time where students are turning in less and less writing and doing less and less reading. This comes down to a multitude of different things that negatively affects a young person's ideology of reading and writing. One thing that directly affects writing is feedback. Feedback on students' writings can come from a numerous number of people with varying levels of the understanding of writing. All forms of feedback directly affect the student's outlook on writing and can have either a negative or positive impact on them. We'll start with the first thing people would think of when it comes to feedback... Teachers Teachers can have a profound impact on students' writings by providing concrete feedback throughout the writing process. This doesn't mean writing a grade and notes at the end of the paper, but rather providing feedback and helping students throughout the writing process as a whole. Yes, this means from prewriting/brainstorming all the...

When multimodal composition comes to mind, the only project I can vividly remember is from my senior year of high school. I took a critical thinking class with a very influential teacher in my education. His name was Mr. Schreiber. His class taught us to never take things at face value and to always critically analyze things presented to us. We had a unit about subliminal messaging in specifics to advertisements. We learned that subliminal messaging is the key to selling products on commercials and were prompted to write our own scripts and create our own commercials. Our commercials were meant to show our understanding of subliminal messaging and create something to show the class. It prompted us to go out of our comfort zones and use multiple modes of writing and creating to make a finalized product. After te class is shown the commercial, they were asked to point out every piece of subliminal messaging they had seen. It was the best feeling to create a commercial with a subliminal m...

How do I go about writing? Well, writing for me starts with an idea, typically prompted in school. Before I can even think about writing, I need to do something else that works for me. I tend to do a "prewrite" but I don't consider it to be prewriting (mostly because it is the literal bare minimum of a prewrite). I take whatever the prompt may be and try to divide in into 2 or 3 main ideas. Each of those turn into a body paragraph. That's it... That's my magical prewriting strategy.  After my extensive prewriting process, I just free write based upon the ideas. If there are any quotes that I can remember, I add them to support my writing. If I cannot think of any, I typically don't add them 'til after my first draft. My first draft is always blocks of writing, no transitions, and minimal quotes. After this first draft is made, the next step is key ! I will not touch my first draft for at least 24 hours. let me say it again for the kids in back who didn...