Last week in class we did an activity "Readers Workshop Contract" I did the activity Blind Writing.
The assignment was:
Cover your screen with something (like maybe your daybook). Type into your
literacy narrative without at the words you type.
I covered my screen with my day book and typed a document in word...
I did not at all care for this assignment, I am constantely looking up at the screen while I
type. It was very hard to do the blind typing assignment.
When I looked back at my work I had misspelled words and typed sentances incorrectly.
I am the type of person that when I type it has to be perfect, and change it right away when it is wrong.
I fully agree with you. When I am typing I spend more of my time worrying about what I am spelling wrong and all of my grammatical errors. When I did this assignment I realized that if I just type what I need to type and do all the grammatical stuff at the end I have a better paper because I spend more time doing actual writing.
ReplyDeleteThis has me thinking about how much we associate our writing with correctness.... I wonder what other qualities (other than correctness) might be useful to writers... What do y'all think?
ReplyDeleteHey Taylor! I find that I'm the same way. I never have look at what I'm typing on the keyboard because I have the screen to tell me if my flying fingers mess up. I didn't do this assignment but I didn't plan on it since I knew that I would mess up. Badly
ReplyDeleteI tried the blind wrting assignment also, it was hard not to lift up my screen, knowing I was selling something wrong, or that I had left something out. I learned that spell check is a life saver if I cant see what im typing, or if I look away too long. Im a perfectionist too and if something isnt right I cant stand to look at it.
ReplyDeleteI had the same thing happen to me, all the words were red and misspelled. It was interesting to see how I wrote, I think I was more focused on keeping the same train of thought. The one bad thing was that whenever I got sidetracked I never really knew were to pick back up with my writing. I am less worried about how perfect my sentences are though, I've just never really cared for English. I do really love this class though Lacy!
ReplyDeleteHey Taylor,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this was not one of my favorite assignments. I was dreading having to do something similar for the midterm as apart of our group part, but it wasn't nearly as bad that time.
I liked the fact that we could just write whatever we wanted.I couldnt do it because I coulnt see what I was writing which made it seem like gibberish. I like to see what I'm typing so I can correct it.
ReplyDeleteI am the same way when i type things. When i see that i misspell something, i am weird about it. I will erase the whole sentence and start over because i don't want to grad my mouse. This class has a lot of interesting assignments that really work to get your mind thinking.
ReplyDeleteI believe in clean and legible writing aswell. That's why I didn't care for this assignment neither! But I'm guessing the point of it was to just let your mind flow, and have your hand just record.
ReplyDeleteI know how you are, when I am doing art I am so much of a perfectionist and I worry about all the details that I don't like my art.
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