Oliva 1
Antonio Oliva
ENG 101
January 14, 2013
Self – Discovery Essay
The Hard Part Writing
Adrienne Rich once wrote, “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.” Writing for me has never come as an easy task, although I love to reads others words and I wonder to myself why could I not do something that meaningful. The hard part of writing this simply being able to make a sentence that makes sense. The intended audience must have a clear understanding of what I’m trying to communicate. This is important on many levels especially for work request from vendors who contract repair work of multi million-dollar equipment. I enjoy reading the technical manuals in order to get a better understanding on how the equipment works. This starts me on thinking how best to describe what repairs may be needed. I develop what I refer to as a mind picture. The association of mind pictures with this type reading is then converted into words. Clear and concise sentences are the key to successful understanding and to clearly avoid misunderstandings between what work needs to be accomplished and what does not need to done. This process can by the helped along by using critical reading strategies, specifically annotating, which consist of recording ones reactions to and questions about the text one has read, these comments are to be written on the page margins. These annotations can be reviewed and cataloged for further analysis or to create a better mind picture. Oliva 1 Side margin annotations are just one aspect of critical thinking and reading in respect