The first few years that I was in college, I used a word processing program called "First Choice" for the few papers that I managed to turn in. If I remember correctly, it booted from DOS an was preferred over "Word Perfect" because it was more intuitive and required less 3 key-stroke commands. The only computers that I had access to were in the lab, although I did have an Amiga that I used to play Golden Axe.
My point in bringing this up is that writing a paper - even creative writing - was a chore. This was even more the case in High School when everything was written painfully by hand. I wonder if today's blog happy students, see creative writing as the horrible assignment that it used to be. I for one, churn out an annoying amount of printed material for work every week and that's before any of my attempts at poetry off the bridge or any other blogging.
Will it be economically feasible, if not impractical to keep the college computer labs open? I wonder how my G.P.A. might have been effected had my inspiration for a paper had included the view from under my favorite tree - rather than the asbestos tiles that lined the upper floor of the Library and the bring blue and white blur of machine without a mouse.
5 comments:
wow hun, so many comments that I can not say! I'll go as far as to say, this is what I think it would have been even with the opportunity of writing under a tree.
I do not like to write papers
I do not like it mr. R
I do not like it in a library
I do not like it in the computer lab
I do not like it under a tree
I do not like it in a dorm
I do not like to write papers
I do not like it Mr. R.
To which his reply would be...
You don't have to like it in a tree
in your dorm, in the lab or at the library. You do not have to like it Mr. T But if you don't write it, you will see how quickly an A can change to something else, so like it or not, papers are a requirement of this course!
I am not going to take time to try to rhyme and make it perfect, I think you get my drift!
I have trouble composing papers sitting at a computer. In high school I would usually write my papers by hand and then type it up on computer. My creative process involved me sitting on my bed with paper and pencil in hand.
I was always jealous of one of my college roommates who could write a perfect paper by composing it in no time flat at her computer. It is a good thing that I didn't have to write many papers being an Accounting major. I am amazed that I have been able to write on the spot like I have been by blogging.
To be honest, I am a little surprised that it was a chore because you are good at creating and relaying information to a class, which is similar to writing a paper.
I always hated writing papers in high school, but that was because it was actual writing and not typing. I did enjoy a creative writing class/club I was in and I may grace my blog with a poem I wrote there if I can just find it.
I absolutely hated writing papers for school assignments. In fact, some of my best writing is my journals, but that came years later! I will never forget my first English class in college with Ms. Sandra V. I was so nervous with my paper, but it turned out pretty good. The harder papers to write were for my Bible classes, because they were graded upon content not structure...and that was based purely upon the professor's perspective. By the time I took my Sociology class, I knew how to write towards the prof's point of view and Aced the class, journal, and paper!
I didn't mind writing the papers in college -- big surprise there, but it was the quantity and the frequency that would get me in trouble. In reporting we had to turn in a story every class period or every other. It was a lot, but I learned to write no matter what the mood was. It's almost easier to have some kind of deadline though. With the blogs I've been needing a good idea, event, or something to get me going.
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