Blog 9

           Writing, to me, no longer means applying words to blank canvases, but better defines expressing anything that can be explained or evoke a response that warrants the use of language to interact with it. Editing is the process of taken a written piece and refining it into something that is less spontaneous and more focused on something in particular; perhaps making something more clear (in terms of intention or message) than it was before. Composing is the ignition of thoughts that intend to pursue creation. Without expression, one may find it difficult to explain writing, in any form of meaning. Without understanding that a text is altered or could be altered for an array of purposes, one could never grasp the concept of editing. Without the concept of something being created or thought of intentionally, one could not grasp the process of composing. Each of these words are crucial to the respective words’ definitions in that without having a basic understanding of those ideas, one misses essential aspects of each of the processes each word seeks to define. The words would probably each mean the same thing without having key words that distinguish them from one another as processes that are connected, however only partially. The projects we have done so far in class have shown me that though something can be composed, it is not until it is written that one can evaluate whether or not it truly serves what inspired its composition, and that once that is evaluated, one can alter and tailor what they have composed and written to reflect his or her own ideas validly and in a far more polished manner. I could compare it to the process of thinking before you speak, then elaborating on what you yourself have said, instead of just blurting things out without a focus on anything in particular. Outside of the course, my other classes have also changed my perspectives on the three terms to mean something a bit more abstract than what a non-English major would understand them to be.