Monday, September 29, 2014

"Author's Note"

"After all my failures of home remedies and oral gel I told myself it's time to visit the dentist office. Anyone that knows me kmows that dentists and I don't get along. It started at the age of 7yrs old when I kicked one in the knee for tugging on my teeth."

I wrote about this story because it was the most recent craziest thing that happened to me. I would say to understand this piece you need to know the severity of the pain I went through. My wisom tooth was trying to burst through the gums but couldnt because I had no more room for it to grow. When the surgeon removed the top left one he had to dig threw my gums to get the tooth out. To revise this paper for my eportfolio I would finish the story by writing about my second visit to get the others removed. I find that writing non-fiction stories versus other writing's are more interesting because it's real, something that actually happened. With other writing's such as academic essays you have to do more research to write it because your using other people's information to write it. I learned that a vignette is totally different from just writing about a story straight forward. A vignette is structured differently. It has to have breaks in the story, and the story should be more descriptive. It should also have dialogue. I revised my paper by re-writing it. Taking out things and adding different details.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Welcome to my blog

Hi everyone my name is Candace king,
Im a pretty down to earth person. I consider myself to be very determined , kind, and caring. My major is Radiology Technology. This is my first semester at LaGuardia.  So far I really like LaGuardia, the buildings are nice inside and all my professors are cool. The Worst part LaGuardia is the travel from my house to the school and the distance from the train station to the school. It takes me and hour and twenty minutes to get to the stop I have to get off at and then its about a 10-15 minute walk from the train station to the school. This is a big disadvantage for me but you have to deal with tough things like this in life. I can only imagine how hard of a walk it will be in the winter especially when it starts snowing. I have never had the space in my schedule to take a class like this especially since it is not a class that is required for my major. The reason I took this class was because I love to write, free write, and do creative writing. Creative non-fiction means to me writing the truth about something in a creative way. Getting the point across in a way that it will intrigue the writers instead of just stating the facts in a plain way.  I look forward to having a lot of fun in this class and getting a good grade in this course.