Kira's blog English 1012

I think the article was pretty good. It was easy written and therefore well to read, without complicated sentences or long passages about something no one really needs to know. Even tough in my opinion her example and how she used to write the food reviews was a little bit long but gave a good insight in how it can look practically, at the same time.
The author really had a point and therefore it had a positive effect on me. When I read it for the first time I just thought that it's propably true for some people but because I was so used to writting papers without a "shitty first draft" I was convinced that it doesn't apply to me at all. But writing the Art Description paper really showed me something different as well as her telling us that even the best writers write them. That was almost like a revelation to me. Don't we all think that all those amazing authors just sit down and start writing a book because it just seems to be in them?
But it is good to know that they don't and nobody does.
Like Anne Lamott mentions in her article, everybody writes shitty first drafts, no matter how experienced they are and it will always be like that. We just need to except that the first one is just going to be something that no one else is going to see except for us. That really encouraged me. Even though I think it's going to take a while until I'm really going to except my first draft of a paper as what it is, "the child's draft".
Keeping that in mind while writing the Art Desription Paper did not really make it easier for me yet and especially the fact that someone is going to read over it and is actually going to share his opinion on it, is pretty hard for me.
But keeping in mind that we are still learning and that we don't need to be perfect yet, is maybe a good way of looking at it and therefore i'm excited to see how this whole process is going to effect my writing in the long run.

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I found the article to be very interesting. Even though the examples were not always well to understand and in my opinion therfore not the best choice.
The structure on the other hand as well as the choice of topics and arguments lead to a good flow in reading and made it fun to read.
For me the aspect of art being a product of culture and the change of art affected by the invention of the camera was very interesting. The consequences of reproduction was another very interesting point for me to read about. Even though it sometines seems that the point of art becoming a mass product is overused but still interesting to think about. Especially because Berger was talking about the advantages of this progress and not only about the disadvantages. In my opinion it is important to be aware of the things. It gives one the chance to understand the world better and to realize what is going on. We don't just become blind consumers but are actually aware of the procedures one is using for this purpose.
I think being aware of these things gives one the possibility to start looking at art with a different perspective which can make it even more interesting because that background knowledge can open a totally different view.

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