Monday, November 2, 2009

Pop-Up

I chose to write my Pop-Up Scholarship assignment on a Time Magizine article I found about the author of the famous books "Twilight", Stephanie Meyer. I chose this article, because at the current moment, I am rather interested with this particular author, and her works. I also really enjoy reading Time Magizine and a majority of its articles. After reading the article I found online, I found out some facts that I had not previously known about Stephanie Meyer and her thoughts on her famous writings. I have always been a fan of Stephanie Meyer, since the release of the first book in the series, Twilight.
However, I am not much of an editor, so I personally found this assignment a little frustrating. I have not declared a major yet, so I could not really choose a piece of writing based upon my major, so I just chose something I enjoy reading.
Throughout the article, I found myself mostly removing sentences and chunks of paragraphs that I found useless. I hardly added anything to the piece of writing from my own thoughts, in my own words, except for the occational comment here and there. I aproached this assignment, somewhat dreading it due to my lack of ability to edit works of literature, or writings. Even in high school, I sometimes skipped out of my English class when I knew we were going to be peer editing papers. I am not really sure why I dislike it so much; probably because I am not too good at it.
The piece of writing I chose pretty much went hand in hand with my opinons on the Twilight books, and their author Stephanie Meyer. The article was definetly written by someone who enjoyed reading Stephanie Meyer's books. With this in mind, I found it difficult to really edit it, because the opinons on the page, were what I would say, only worded much better.

3 comments:

  1. I feel the same about editing usually. I make comments and thoughts, but mostly I just fix for grammar and flow. I've been editing my friends' and roommates' papers for years, but I was always told not to add anything because they would get in trouble if their teacher noticed a change in voice. Maybe it would have helped if you chose an article you disagreed with?

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  2. I had the same problem with the assignment, but what I eventually ended up doing was deliberately looking for an article I knew would be flawed and fractured so that I would have plenty of fodder for commenting. Wikipedia actually ended up being my destination. I think it more or less worked.

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  3. Having not read your actual Pop Up comments yet, I can't comment on your editing abilities, but I do appreciate the honesty in this particular post. Editing was, though, but one possible approach to this assignment. Might you have been happier with the result if a different approach was taken?

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