https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OTZyzOnFTcoT7hY0Kk-REWyXJy_gOJscBFlU6uUYmhk/edit?usp=sharing This first Papelito Guardado is about what I consider to be my home, and how its changed me and affected me as a writer. Before coming to UofA I would have only considered Miami to be my home, but now that I’ve been here so long and I’ve met so many new friends I now consider UofA to be my second home for now. Being away from home has also allowed me to develop as a person and writer, and I’ve been able to actually write about things I’m interested in, rather than just writing an essay for a grade.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEVUehGxRcHiWrQxc-q0Vp2dt4xdsmPaWQaGixLtfoY/edit?usp=sharing In this Papelito Guardado I talk about how I first learned how to properly take notes in 8th grade and how I usually take notes. Although you might think that note taking isn’t related to how someone writes, I think that it’s actually had a big effect on me as a writer because it was the first time I was actually becoming organized and taking organized notes. This organization has since then translated into the ways that I make my outlines, drafts and how I give feedback because it’s all relatively connected. By learning how to take notes that are efficient and easy to quickly understand, it showed me that I should be doing that with my outlines, which have since then become a lot more organized with proper spacing and being able to write down my ideas clearly to avoid losing them in a unorganized mess words and thoughts when I want to look back on it or actually use the outline in my writing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWcao94cGLOStTGkg1_8QgTCAMfxj3bVyAsx6HWccbg/edit?usp=sharing Finally, in the third Papelito Guardados I define academic writing, and then give my opinion on it. Throughout my schooling up until college all of my writing has been academic writing that is based on a rigid prompt or question that doesn’t give me much freedom to write about what I’m actually interested in. Then, when I came to college I realized that academic writing can actually be interesting if your taking the right classes/teachers who give you a bit of freedom on how and what you write about, which I’ve really enjoyed this semester. On the other hand, academic writing can sometimes be easier than free writing or writing about something you enjoy because in academic writing you usually have a rubric to follow and specific guidelines so that you know exactly how to get the best grade possible, whereas if I’m free writing or writing about something interesting without a rubric I get carried away or lose focus of the actual idea behind the writing and I end up having to set parameters for myself for my own writing.