Prologue
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I chose the scale for my repetend because it represents the struggle I have been dealing with to finish my education. I feel like I am forced to constantly weigh my options and make decisions that affect myself and the people I love. My inital thoughts on writing the Twitterive was to write about an incident that took place at my daughter's soccer game, but as I began working on it and reviewing my tweets I noticed a pattern of frustration that I was dealing with during this time that was affecting me in all aspects of my life. I thought using this forum to take on this issue might help me to create the balance I have been struggling to find between home, work, and school.
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Reflection:
My Twitterive is a very personal look at the struggles I am dealing with every day in order to create a balance in my life. It expresses my fears, my desires and my regrets as a wife, a mother, and a student. I find that I am a better writer when I find a subject that is very personal, and for me it doesn't get more personal than this. My Twitterive had quite an evolution over the course of this class. It started out on a very different path than the final product I am presenting here. With each draft I feel it became more refined and expressive of my personal concerns. It has been a long road and I am finally near the end. I have learned so much through my triumphs and my failures. I hope in the end that I am able to accomplish all of this with as little collateral damage to my family as possible. In my endeavor to complete my Twitterive, I have incorporated core value 1 which states: Writing Arts students will demonstrate understanding of a variety of genre conventions and exhibit rhetorical adaptability in applying those conventions. I think learning to create a writing space using multiple genres of writing and being able to effectively reflect on the methods used to accompish this has been essential in creating the Twitterive. Additionally, I have untilized core value 5 which states: Writing Arts students will understand the impact evolving technologies have on the creation of written texts. In incorporating so many different genres of writing and learning many new technologies throughout my creation of this writing space I have embraced the importance of technology on maintaining the relevance of writing spaces in todays digital world.