Summer I Blog Post #2: Paper reflection!

Writing is a deeply personal task that is usually linked with a writer's emotions. It is also a mechanical task that takes several steps or a skill you learn over time.

When I entered grad school in 2012 after almost 10 years out of school, I felt that writing my first paper for class was a major step. I was nervous about the outcome of the project. I wanted my professor to respect me for what I could do. I wrote about it in this blog post: http://cccwritingcenter.blogspot.com/2012/09/back-to-school-and-writing-again.html

For your blog post, please write a reflection on writing your first Writing 100 paper. What steps did you take to write it? What kinds of negative thoughts hindered your progress? What kinds of inner strength and motivation did you use to complete the task? Get detailed in your post, from the mechanical steps you took to your feelings along the way.

I wrote many papers in school and graduated!

Blog post 1: You and food

In the readings this week, the authors talked about the personal and political nature of food in our lives.  As women, we are often expected to be at least partially interested in the buying, cooking, and serving of food. Women are also often in control of a family's nutritional needs. In "Having it His Way," for example, the authors discussed how fast food commercials make women out to be controlling men's freedom by controlling their food choices.

For your first blog post, I would like for you to write about your relationship with food in your life. Think about where you learned about how you think about food, nutrition, and even obesity. I am aware that this could be a deeply personal issue, so I am not necessarily asking you to self-disclose in this forum. I would like to see you do some analysis of where your relationship with food comes from. As an American woman, how do you relate to what the authors talked about?