Having never written a microtheme before, I feel pretty good about my draft. I chose to write about the problematic question of why people still smoke given everything we know about the dangers. Growing up around smokers gave me a lot of personal experiences that I could draw from while writing. I have watched my family members smoke all of my life and then I had to watch as they lost their lives because of it. I saw first hand what smoking does and I'm still confused as to why people continue to do it. In my introduction I give some background on how my personal experiences have shaped my opinion on the matter and I feel like that's one of the things that is working in my microtheme. I could make it more concise, but I feel like its a good starting point.
It really became more challenging as I got into the 2nd paragraph. I had to get in to the mind set of someone who smokes and ask the question of why they do it. I like to think I have the ability to emphasize with people in order to understand their points of view, but continuing to smoke is the one thing I have a hard time understanding. Instead of trying to get into their mind sets I decided to think more about the different circumstances a person could be in that would lead them to smoke. Another challenge was having to let go of everything I was previously taught about writing. I was taught to always use an "attention getter" to make the reader interested, but with this I had to get straight to the point. It is also not the traditional essay where I use big words to sound smarter ( don't lie, we all do it ). Big words is just another way to bead around the bush and you can't do that when writing a microtheme. You only have one page to get everything you want in there so you have to get to the point quickly.
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