Friday, August 28, 2015

Exploration Two: First blog post By Jessica Stafford

     Hi my name is Jessica Stafford. I grew up in Wichita, Ks where I lived for twelve years before moving to Austin, TX where I lived for three years before moving to Columbus, Oh. I went to Olentangy High school and played Basketball all four years. A few fun facts about me are that I have played Basketball for eleven years and I have had three brain surgeries after being born with a brain tumor. After my third surgery I realized that I was going to major in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and became an Occupational therapist to help people who have undergone the surgeries that I did.
     The theme that stood out to me in chapter one of The Call to Write was the idea that writing truly is important in our everyday lives. The way the chapter provides several different examples of when we use writing really allows you to see how important the skill of writing is. I never paid much attention to its importance but this chapter allowed me to see that as it demonstrated how we use writing for papers that we are required to write but also for things as simple as a grocery list.







My family and I after my high school graduation.

6 comments:

  1. I agree with what you said about The Call to Write! Thinking that even a grocery list is considered writing was definitely a new perspective for me. Since I am going into Pharmacy, I've been taking a lot of lab classes. I never thought that all of the narratives or all of the lab reports that I've done, and will be doing plenty more of in the future, were considered writing.

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  2. I agree when you say that writing is everywhere, even if we do not realize that we are writing. Writing can be on anything from grocery lists, like you said or on something that we use everyday like road signs.

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  3. I think its so cool how you want to help people that have gone through the same thing that you did! I also agree about writing. I never paid that much attention to how much we use it outside of writing papers and stuff for school

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  4. I have always wanted to go to Kansas. I love flat ground and agriculture and would love to experience more of a diverse setting other than Ohio.

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  5. I agree that writing is very important. I think it gives people that are afraid to speak a voice.

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  6. I also agree with writing being important in our every day lives. I never really thought how much writing goes into a 24 hour day. Something so simple as writing a list or note is considered writing. It's really cool to think about how much writing I'm doing each day.

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