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Task 4 Commentary:

I really enjoyed doing the task for this week. It was refreshing and therapeutic for me to write down my thoughts and reflect on a moment in my day. I normally type up my thoughts if I need to but writing manually was a nice change for once. Because I was describing a part of my day and retelling an incident that had taken place, the words came easily and the task was not very difficult to complete. If I was writing a story, I believe it would have taken me a longer time since I would be making the story up as I wrote it down.

It was interesting to note that I automatically chose to write in pencil over pen. I typically always choose pencil over pen when writing longer entries or passages since I know if I make any mistakes I can always erase them. For me personally, writing in pen is a little intimidating due to the fact that if I make a mistake, I cannot get rid of it and thus, pencil is more preferable. Although I wrote my entry in pencil, I refrained from using an eraser in order to “show” the errors and mistakes I made. I wanted to stay true to the writing process. Looking back at my writing, I noticed that any words that I did not want, I had crossed out with a single horizontal line. In order to insert words that I had left out or forgotten, I used a little upside down v and placed the words above that. I also noticed that because I had chosen to write in a notebook, some of the words on the previous page made dents in the paper since I tend to press my pencil into the paper more while writing by hand.

I feel that the most significant different between writing by hand and using mechanized forms of writing such as typing is the alteration or correction process. When writing by hand, in order to alter what you have written, you need to either cross out the words, or use white-out to get rid of them, however, words cannot be rearranged within a paragraph or longer piece of text without the writing and corrections getting messy. What I like about typing out your words on a computer is the fact that you can go back and add in any words or sentences or even paragraphs anywhere in the text you like. You can also delete anything you don’t want and replace that blank space with other words. You have the option of also choosing any font you like and all the letters will be the same. On the contrary, while writing by hand, it is extremely difficult to make all your letters and words look exactly alike. Some parts of your writing may be neat but other parts may be messy or unreadable. Words cannot be “deleted” but have to be crossed out instead. Lastly, inserting paragraphs or longer pieces of writing within a hand-written text is almost impossible unless you draw arrows to indicate where that piece of text is supposed to go, however, too many arrows can also make a piece of text messy to the point that it gets difficult to read.