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Jedediah Valdez

ENG 1320/1301. 158

Trang Phan

9/01/2010

                                                                                Summary

Thoughts are ongoing processes that happen involuntary, and voluntary but, good writers have the ability to go back on an experience when given a topic and write their thoughts out clearly and

distinctively. This is a process called retrospective and projective structuring that you aren’t born with,

but is taught. Together they form the alternating mental postures writers assume as they move through

the act of composing.

                In other words, writing is a way of going deep inside yourself and feeling something called a “felt

sense”. It’s kind of a bodily awareness that can be used as a tool to encompass everything you feel and

know about a given subject at a given time. Also, there are methods like using key words and rereading.

Writing does appear to be recursive, yet other parts that recur seem to vary from writer to write and

from topic to topic. All of these methods of the writing process are difficult to understand and see, but

happen differently from college students, graduate students, and English majors. Furthermore, writing is

a way of communicating to people. If authors truly wrote down what they felt, it wouldn’t be as

interesting but, somehow they connect to the reader.

                            Q:  Where exactly are you supposed to feel this “felt sense”  feeling?

R:  I have always loved to write. Poetry is my favorite genre of writing. In fact, I wrote a poem in

high school that my English teacher entered in a contest and got published in a nationally recognized

 magazine. So this leads me to my question, in the passage “understanding composition” the author

mentioned that “felt sense” is the feeling you get somewhere in your body (for some it’s a feeling in

their stomach or the constant shaking of a leg). For me, I didn’t anything accept fear and sadness

because of one girl. The whole time I was writing I couldn’t stop thinking about her. She was my

motivation. And, initially, I never meant for anybody to see it but, one day my teacher asked everyone to

write a poem for class and I used my poem as an easy grade. Maybe the “felt sense” was the girl I was

thinking about?