Are you a writer? A visual artist? Please consider contributing your creative work to the fifth annual edition of Cosumnes River College’s literary publication. We are committed to publishing emerging and established writers, including Cosumnes River College students, faculty, staff, and the rest of the world.
We want your: short stories; essays, including autobiographical narrative, criticism, interviews; mini-essays (250 words) on the theme: carpe diem; poems; art: photographs, drawings, etc. Also, please include a fifty-word bio with your submission. Please forward your contributions to: crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu
Include no more than five poems or photos per entry; limit your short stories + essays to two contributions per year. Please send MS Word attachments for writing + jpeg files for the art.
For the Spring 11 issue, e-mail crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu by March 18th.
Post questions, ideas, or a favorite quote or idea taken from your own, newly improved Advocay paper to this blog--Did you benefit from these revisions? Hope you take the time to apply for the journal! I'll join your fan club!
15 comments:
I feel that I benefited a lot from the revisions I made to my advocacy paper. Often when I am passionate about a subject, I won't take as much time as I should to edit and reread my papers. I also tend to write them very quickly and emotionally, so that I won't lose my thoughts. Looking over my paper after a week or so of not looking at it at all really allowed me to catch my errors, edit some of my run-on thoughts and sentences, and make my paper better overall.
Melissa Leonard
"Cities need a balance of both small businesses and big box stores in order to provide a wide range of products that satisfy all of the needs for each community."
-Alex Soohoo
The revisions that you made for this assignment helped very much. When I write essays, I usually proofread my paper, then I ask someone else to peer edit. Reading my essay on the computer is harder to catch the errors I have in my essay compared to when it's printed. Although we may not catch all the errors, your corrections open up other ways to organize and make new points to the paper. I didn't know that we can say stuff like "I agree!". I usually would think the reader has to figure out my position of the argument by using context clues.
-Alex Soohoo
I definitely benefitted by doing revisions, but I still did not really get the grade that I wanted. I liked my paper a lot and I was proud of it. I wrote about something that I am very passionate and serious about, so I actually enjoyed writing it. I liked how I used a personal anecdote, and I believe that all of the points I brought up were really good.
-Reachel Ramsay
I'm very interested in submitting an essay or a poem into the CRC literary publication but is it okay if it was an essay we wrote for a class? In George's family and marriage soc class I wrote an essay that I feel in love with about relationships, and what I feel I can contribute to a relationship.
I really feel I grew from the revisions and the opportunity to improve my writing and my run-on sentences was very helpful I wish more professors offered this option.
-Melissa Barger
Being able to revise our paper after you gave suggestions was very helpful. I learned that I was using words that were unnecessary and did not make my paper any better. Your suggestions also made me understand why I received the initial grade that I did but that it had potential to be much better.
Being able to revise our paper after you gave suggestions was very helpful. I learned that I was using words that were unnecessary and did not make my paper any better. Your suggestions also made me understand why I received the initial grade that I did but that it had potential to be much better.
-Ashley Ginn
I definitely benefited from the revisions a lot. Its nice to see what other people think of your work because sometimes we can miss simple things.
I was strongly considering doing a short story for this. How do we let you know that we submitted it to them?
Michael Drummond
I appreciate all of the feed back you gave me. And allowing me to make it an A paper. Although I was frustrated at first, it proved beneficial. Thanks.
Jamila Jolby
I'd love to submit something, but with my class load, work, and many other things on my plate, I don't think I'll have time to find something worth submitting. Maybe next time!
Brandon Morgan
My grade definitely benefited from the revisions, however the majority of my revisions were just adding an "Opposing Viewpoints" source, since I had misunderstood the directions in the beginning. Besides that, my writing itself benefited, because it was kind of a refresher paper since I hadnt written one in a while. I definitely enjoyed writing this paper, I had a lot to say and was very passionate about my topic.
Katharine Baskins
I benefited from the revisions. It was a nice chance to fix some things I had not caught, and also fix a few citation errors. I also benefited because you pointed out that my thesis was a little too long, I was able to make changes to it and shorten it up.
Even after proffreading my own essays multiple times, there are always small errors that I miss. I appreciate the feedback and corrections on the advocacy paper as well as the chance to increase my grade on it a bit, which is always helpful. Obviously it helped to improve my grade, earning more points on the paper as well as the additional 25 points for turning in a revision.
King Xiong
I feel like I benefitted a lot from revising my Advocacy Paper. I haven't taken a writing class in a while, so I felt a little rusty on it at first, but as i kept writing it all came back to me. I forgot about how much I loved writing. I also got to re-learn how to do citations again. I forgot how to do them because I haven't taken a writing class in a while and when I write in my other classes, we just use footnotes or endnotes. I also got to check over my writing and I had a few mistakes to correct which helped my grade a lot on the paper.
-Ashley Robinson
for my advocacy paper i think i should have gotten a higher grade than i recieved at first. i think it was mostly done so that i'd have to revise it. i didn't really change much but i got a higher grade for it so im content.
I did not do a revision for my advocacy paper because at the time I got the paper back, I was satisfied with my grade. But where I stand today (grade wise), I regret not doing so. I received a B on my advocacy paper, but I think I could have easily raised that to an A. I appreciated all the comments I received on the paper and I think it has helped me to become a better writer because I realized that I do make a lot of little mistakes in my paper that eventually add and bring my grade down.
Kavi Lal
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