In English 101 my section was a technology themed section of English 101. So as you can imagine my papers were some what less than traditional. While the papers started off as simple close readings of technology themed text, I soon was writing about some less traditional works. For instance through out the course of the class we had to play through the video game Portal. So by the end of the class we were required to write an essay on a single level of the game. At first it didn't seem very difficult, however I soon realized how much deeper you have to examine a text when it has little to no dialogue, or even text at all. But because the game was something that really interested me, I was able to really look into the visual aspects of the game and really do a close reading of not text, but the emotions the game enticed to gamer to feel and through what mediums this was accomplished. I think this was my greatest writing success because I was able to look past the norm of textual media and really dig deep into a work and come up with a well written insightful paper.
My worst writing experience was probably my first research paper ever, granted I was eleven but still it was pretty terrible. I was supposed to do a research paper on santa claus (seeing as we were about to leave for winter break) and I thought it would be a great idea to quote the "Twas the Night Before Christmas" which seems like a rather logical way of researching santa claus right? Well by the end of the paper I had 150 words of my own work four pages of starting from the beginning to the the end of the entire "Twas the Night Before Christmas" story. But to this day I have learned to limit my quotes.
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