What Is Your Writing Process?
Discussion Topic
Everyone gears up to write differently. Some people plan in advance and work on a paper a little at a time; others wait and begin the night before it's due. What's your writing process? In this discussion, you'll share your writing successes and challenges with your classmates. Post a paragraph or two that addresses one or more of the following questions:
- How formally do you follow a writing process?
- Do you usually follow all the steps of prewriting, writing, and revising?
- Do you find these steps helpful?
- What are your strengths as a writer?
- What areas do you think need improvement?
- Do you have any advice to share about how you interpret and write about literature?
In your follow-up posting, see if you can help out a classmate or two with some great writing advice!
Scoring
This discussion is worth a maximum of 15 points. You'll get 10 points for your first posting. Your instructor will give you another 5 points if you post a follow-up comment or question that furthers the discussion.
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ReplyDeleteI think the general consensus among writers is that we're highly talented with words, but completely unorganized. I've seen this said a lot, and I agree to a certain extent.
A strength of mine includes allowing myself to write whatever I want, without judgment or restriction. Then I edit. I let my fingers type out every emotion, thought, or opinion, and then I go in and see what should and should not belong. I also write small details well and can describe situations pretty well. This allows for one to actually be put into my shoes as if they were there when this event transpired.
Weaknesses of mine, including procrastinating way too much and going overboard on vocabulary. I tend to express my self a little too much at times, and I try to work on it every time I must write something. Practice makes perfect afterall!
For advice, I suggest reading other people's writings. Read some of your style and some completely different. I think each writer is as different as their writing style, so it goes without saying that each of us come with our own set of great talents, as well as our own personal quirks. With this in mind, I'm curious as to what other writers find are their best and worst qualities.
Original: When writing an essay, the process I use is not formal but it does include parts of the writing process discussed in the online presentation. I often use my notes to develop an informal outline for myself and then draft my essay. Normally, I revise my essay locally and only slighty globally to make sure that my ideas make sense. I find that these steps are helpful and provide for more developed ideas and clear writing. My strengths as a writer include providing support for my ideas and local revision. However, I often get caught up in my ideas and lose my organization in the essay. I find it hard to just state my idea, support it with evdience, and then walk away. I always want to continue explaining!
ReplyDeleteTo Justin: I completetly agree that writers can be unorganized. I tend to be so in my writing. However, I think that if you revise your paragraphs and check if they relate to your main idea, then your writing should stay focused and organized. I also want to note that your idea about all writers having their personal strengths and quirks is interesting. I concur with this as well.
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ReplyDeleteOf all the brainstorming techniques, my preference is free writing. Like Justin, I write down everything that's on my mind and when I'm done, I eliminate what's not necessary and relevant. If I had the choice, I'd rather not annotate what I'm reading either because I find it to be time consuming and it doesn't really help me when I write my draft. But I always outline my work, spending about 5-10 minutes doing so.
I think that aside from actually writing the essay, the most important part is revising (both global and local). This is important because it is the structure of your essay. My biggest weakness in writing an essay would most probably be wrapping it all up in a conclusion. It's hard for me because the reader wants you to summarize your essay without using what you wrote in you introduction and that just gives me writer's block. As far as advice goes, I believe that one should ask an English professor to review your writing when they have the time and patience to do so.
To Justin:
ReplyDeleteLike you, I am a master at procrastination. I hate it and I try to stop doing it and focusing, but sometimes I just can't deal with everything that's in front of me and my house is a jungle so it's hard to stay focused.
I completely agree with your advice to a writer. I think it's a great idea to read someone else's writing. Obviously it's bad to plagiarize, but noticing the writing style of other people might help your technique and possibly make you determined to have a strong supportive essay.
When writing an essay, I must say I try to incorporate most of the formal processes of writing, but most of the time, if not all of the time I fail to do so. As many of my fellow classmates have stated before, I procrastinate a lot. Though I use complaints and excuses to get out of writing, I do try and incorporate as much ideas as possible into the creation of my essay. I use outlining tremendously becuase I do believe it is the skeleton of an essay, but I brainstorm in my outline which always leads to a confusion of my thoughts. The steps of prewriting, writing, and revising are most helpful, and I always try to find ways to incorporate them into my writing habits.
ReplyDeleteThe one aspect I like most about my essays is that I believe I can create a thesis statement, taht will always grab the attention of the reader, but my analysis and revision of my essay negatively impacts the one positive aspect.
I do not believe I can properly give advice to other writers, without being hypocritical becuase I do not follow all the formal steps for writng. It is neessary to follow most if not all of the steps to have an astounding essay, that surpasses the typical mediocre standards.
To Sherifa B:
ReplyDeleteI completely know what you mean when you say you get lost in revision. I too experience the same thing, and it sometimes can become very bothersome. I also know what it feels like to what to continue explaining something but not wanting to go overboard and lose its significance.
In response to Christian's post, I also despise annotating becuase I too, feel like it is unecessarily time consuming and pulls me out of my comfort zone where I believe I can create a well written essay.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that revision, whether it is global or local will definitely polish an essay, but most times I can say I do not revise my essays. My lack of revision always leads to regret for me, as it is a horrible habit. I continuously try after writing any essay to re-read sentences, paragraphs and even words to be sure that grammar, punctuation, diction and even tone is accurate.
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ReplyDeleteWhen writing an essay, I do not necessarily follow the writing process, but I do take it into account. Usually I do create a draft, then edit it, and create my final draft. However, more often than none, I also procrastinate. With me, I think it is necessary to procrastinate. I usually cannot take anything seriously without a bit of pressure. When creating an essay, I do not use an outline, only because I think it takes more work to do the outline than the essay itself. I like everything simple and easy, and an outline creates more hassle and unnecessary energy. I believe my strengths as a writer lies within the body of an essay. I can organize my facts in order to support my thesis. However I do get carried away with my thoughts and ideas, and I tend to waver from the central purpose of my essay. Usually I have to go back and reread my essay to make sure that each point ties in with the thesis statement. I believe that my editing as well as my conclusions needs improvement. When I write an essay, it is like I have OCD. When typing on Word, there are red and green marks that underline words that are not correct or should be fixed, and when I am writing I must stop fix what is wrong, then I can continue writing.
To Shinece:
ReplyDeleteI too believe that I cannot give advice to other writers. Even though the writing process was created to help writers, I cannot use it to the fullest extent. But you know what, I think that is the point of the process. Not using it to the fullest extent and putting your own unique spin on it in order to fit your own writing style.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Christian. I find free writing to be the best and most affective way of writing. Whenever im writing a sentence, a paragraph or an essay, i usually go ahead and write down whats on my mind. When im finished i go back and go over the entire writing and i exclude stuff that is unnecessary. Normally i do not follow the entire writing process. In my opinion for example, annotating ,which is a part of the writing process is time consuming and it involes a lot of thinking process. It gives you less time to express your thoughts on your writing and at the end it might not be helpful.
I think the weakest part of my writing is organization. I usually have a hard time with organizing everything that i want to include in my essays. Organization, to me, is the most important part of essays because it helps the readers understand the content of any writing. It is hard for me because when i start writing everything and anything thats on my mind, sometimes the whole essay is off topic and it is diffucult for me to organize it in a way in which it would make sense without changing the whole content of my writing.
My advice is to ask your teacher for help and not wait till the last minute! ...Doing homework the night beofre can be very stressful and confusing which will make the writing process twice as hard!
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ReplyDeleteOrigional:I personally concur with Christian , a person can convey what they truly want the reader to feel when free writing ,on the flip side , there are people who write best under pressured situations. I deffinatly do not follow the writing process to the letter but I remain cognizant of the overall idea. Although Paulina has a point that annotating is time consuming,I find that it challenges me to have a complete understanding of the passage or text that has to be read. To finally conquer what the text is about is key to writing a sucessful essay
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ReplyDeleteIn the introduction of starting an essay, I personally do an essay two days before its due; but when worse comes to worse, I do it the day before its due. I do not follow the formal writing process because it usually takes more time then actually writing the essay. I usually note down the basic main points for an outline then immediately start my essay. I do not follow the pre-writing, writing then revising, in real AP time frame you would probably only be up two one introduction and the time warning of "times up move on to your next essay" will occur. They are helpful for first experience writers, but as for college level not so much. Maybe 6th graders have more time, and need the organization in their essays. My strength as a writer is being able to analyze and expand on one idea and incorporating outside examples. Along with construction conclusions that finish an essay perfectly. The areas I need to improve on is actually understanding the task and being able to see beneath the metaphor in poetry. When I interpret and write about english literature just interpret what is given and DO NOT over analyze a scene, you will go off topic and be completely wrong in your explaination.
To Jessica:
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you stated, it does take a lot to create a successful essay, and the advantages of free writing an essay. But I disagree on your comment to annotating does allow you that extra challenge but it may hurt your overall essay because so much time is consumed from underlining and side comments for an essay.
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ReplyDeleteI think the ideal way to write anything is to obviously follow the traditional process of: Plan, Draft, Revise, Edit, Rewrite. However, honestly speaking, the majority of writing pieces I've ever done have been last minute, up-all-night typing kinds of work. Naturally, I work best under pressure; I think sometimes I get into this mentality of believing that since something is not due right away, there MUST be something else I can work on. Nonetheless, I have also realized that it depends on the type of writing I'm doing. I notice, when it comes to research papers, I generally need to know beforehand exactly what I'm going to talk about - even if it means all I have is an idea for a thesis, and then do all my research the night before. Contrarily, when it comes to more creative pieces, I don't really need to know anything prior to the moment I sit down to write.
My ability to work well under pressure comes in handy when it's time to take timed exams. I'm able to knock out what I want to say in a time efficient manner. It is then that I am able to round up all the thoughts in my head the best - When I know that I'm working against the clock. There's a sort of adrenaline rush that I get which allows the wheels in my brain to turn, and get my hand writing. Whether it be 20 minutes, 40 minutes, or an hour and a half, I WILL get the task done.
As Justin mentioned, my number one weakness as a writer is procrastination. Another weakness of mine is being able to wrap up a paper without just restating the points that I already made. One way I can fix this is by definitely reading examples of conclusions by other writers, to see how I can create effective, original conclusions.
As Sherifa stated, the one piece of advice I will say is most important in writing is to revise. It doesn't matter if you're writing it 2 weeks before, or 2 hours before it's due...ALWAYS LOOK OVER IT! Read it to yourself...if you can, let someone else read it...even if it's only once; usually, papers are never perfect on the first try. Another piece of advice I would give is to find what works best for you. There's no cookie-cutter definition of what's "the best" way to go about writing...as with many things in life, you need to be open to trying new things, but once you've found what works best for you...go with it!! =]
To Justin:
ReplyDeleteI absolutely know what it feels like to give too much... I always want to make sure that people understand exactly where I'm coming from, and will do anything I have to to make sure they get it *even if it means going over my writing limit ;-)*
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ReplyDeleteI will be the first to admit that English is my weakest subject. I have forever struggled putting my thoughts and ideas into words. My dream is to be able to write in a language where all understand the meaning behind my sentences. My lack of a prewriting process may contribute to my struggle. For instance,as I write this now,I am simply recording my thoughts.However, I have not found a prewriting strategy that works effectly. I simply find them time consuming and unhelpful. Revision is definitely a neccessity in the writing process. Yet, I usually get lost in the revising process. Recently I have found that by leaving time between the writing and revision process one can pick out errors with more ease.
To Naomi,
ReplyDeleteI generally do the same thing. When teachers begin to drill how important the prewriting process is, I write the main topics of my essay on a piece of paper, and begin to write my essay. I feel as though this may have alot to do with the quality of my essays. While the prewriting process can be time consuming and somewhat annoying, it seems as though it really makes a difference in the end product.
To Maggie:
ReplyDeleteI totally see how difficult it is to scope out a prewriting method that both timely and affective , for me as time consuming as it may be for some helps me alot because the more analysis of the text there is the stronger your response becomes. Hopefully by perhaps reading the text completly then sum up what you read in a sentence or jot down a specific part in the text that totally jummps out at you and building on it can be less time consuming and more efficient for you.
Well, when it comes to how formally I follow the writing process, on a scale of 1 to 10, probably a 7. I start with a little planning outline, then I start writing, and lastly I edit for mistakes. When it comes to following all the steps, usually I tend not to. I do not always start prewriting. Sometimes, the direction of the essay or work is clear to me and I know exactly what I need to write. Of course the steps are helpful; they are the guidelines for answering questions and writing essays based on literature. When it comes down to writing, I am great with being able to make strong connections and inferences between parts of a text and different texts. I am also able to connect my paragraphs together with clever transitions. I need to improve on identifying the main points of the work, stating relevance, and most importantly building a strong thesis. My advice to fellow writers would be that when writing about literature, be sure that what you write makes sense. Read your own work as if it were that of someone else. When you interpret literature, make sure you catch the who, the what, and the why. What goes on in the text is essential to understanding and interpreting it.
ReplyDeleteUsually when I start on an essay I create a draft of what my essay will look like and I organize the information. However, the final product is NEVER the same as my outline. It's always similar and in my opinion an outline can be very helpful to get to thought process running. Sometimes I do feel that writing freely is much easier, but that's only in cases where I have everything planned. I think one of the strengths would be organizing the actual body paragraphs in the essay itself and transitioning through them. A word of advice would be that when you read literature make sure you understand, because if you don't you're gonna have no clue to what you're doing and everything that you're gonna be writing is going to be bogus. While reading you should read slowly and examine the sentences their meanings and learn to read in between the lines.
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ReplyDeleteLike you I like to write freely too, however the problem with that is when I get an assignment I don't always know what to write and then I'm stuck. So I have to go with the outline and organizing ideas. And yes, I agree with your advice as a reader...I learned that after messing up over and over again.
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ReplyDeleteI absolutely do not follow the writing process formally. I follow the prewriting step by taking notes and developing my ideas. I don’t ask myself questions though because most of them I can’t answer, which is why I ask them. I can’t ask a question to myself and then answer because I would feel like a crazy person. I hate writing outlines which is probably why my transitions are weak. I only create an outline when teachers demand it and I make it after I write the essay. I use my ideas from the prewriting phase to write my essay. After I write my essay I have to leave it alone for a day and then come back to revise it. I revise my essay mostly locally as opposed to globally. As a writer my strength would have to be organization and development of my ideas. I need to improve on making my sentence structures more concise. As I said transitions are also particularly hard me to perfect along with my introduction. Starting my essay is always the hardest but once I start, the words for the essay just seem to flow similar to the free writing notion.
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ReplyDeletePersonally, I hardly follow the formal process at all. I don't think that it's a bad method, but I've never been a person to work with organization properly. Ironically, when I've tried the prewriting phase, it messed up my thinking process drastically. When I write my essays, I usually take a few minutes to think about what I'm going to do, and how I'm going to execute my ideas, and the rest flows onto the paper. Of course, because of this sometimes my organization is a bit lacking. I do revise my work though, but global revision doesn't often happen because anything big I didn't like in the essay, I'd have already changed in the middle of writing it. What I do believe I'm strong in is being able to create concise ideas that are too the point and carrying a certain strength in each of my sentences. Although, I need to let my voice into my writing more often, and sometimes my ideas aren't solid enough. As for advice...Well, I've got nothing beneficial really. My methods are horrible and probably only work for me, I don't want to see people trip up because of something that only works with my brain.
To Naomi:
ReplyDeleteI feel as though analyzing metaphors and deeper meanings is something I need to work on too. A lot of the time, I just take things at face value without looking too into the meaning behind what was being said, and I feel that that is a big flaw in my papers. I think the ability to perceive these things is important to writers of literature as well as the ones that have to analyze it or just to read, because it gives a full experience of the writing.
When approaching writing, I do not do so formally. I begin the writing process by writing down all of my ideas as they relate to the topic of the piece i am writing. Once i do this i then find the ideas which relate to each other in some way, place them in one category, and connect them if i can. Once i group my ideas, i make my points based off of them. When i have the basis of my points and ideas i then write my essay.
ReplyDeleteOnce i take these steps, writing my actual piece becomes a tad bit easier. This is due to the fact that all i have to do from there is develop and organize my ideas.
The difficulty that i do have is ensuring that everything i write ties back to my overarching thesis, with no deviation. In addition, i find my self repeating things i say because i want the reader to grasp my points. However, that repition leads to my piece being redundant.
To Ellysa:
ReplyDeleteI have similar issues with my writing. I never independently revise globally because usually i am unable to detect my own global issues. I depend on those who revise my writing piece, whether it be my peer or a teacher, to revise it globally. when i revise my essays independently i focus on local issues.
I also have the same issue with making my sentence structure concise. i have always struggled with this and it can lead to parts of my writing being unclear to the reader.
Transitioning from point to point in my piece is also problematic for me, which is why usually i follow the layout for transition that my instructor gives me.
I would like to enhance my writing by not only correcting these issues i have, but also by gaining a personal voice. For some reason i do not know how to make my writing sound like my own.
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ReplyDeleteThere is no formal writing process that I follow, just the simple draft, finalize, and proofread process that was taught way back in elementary school. I usually begin by brainstorming about the main topic and narrowing down the idea that I want to write about. From that point on, I try to write with an analytical and logical mind but sometimes its necaessary to invest some emotion into the essay in order to bring the essay alive. My problem usually involves the fact that I tend to stray from my main thesis statement, so I need to work on staying on the topic at hand.
To Christian:
ReplyDeleteI like your writing process where you begin with free writing by writing all of your ideas down and then eliminating the ones that are irrelevant to the topic. I should try that instead of trying to only think about the topic. Sometimes this is counterproductive, because sometimes I can't force myself to think of any ideas. But if I just let myself write about any and everything, I won't have that freeze moment with my writing.
To Yan:
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem like you. I have no idea how to put my own voice into my essay. Growing up teachers always told me to put facts into my writing and facts only. All of a sudden I am expected to have a voice. I got so used to writing about facts that I can only put in my own voice when I am writing a creative piece. It seems completely unnatural to me to incorporate my own voice in a logos based argument. I never know how much voice to put it when I do develop one because I don’t want my essay to come off as too emotional.
To Sherifa: I can definitely relate with you about having your ideas run so rampant that they take away from the organization of your essay. I too have a problem with going on and on about an idea and just providing as much information as I can. When I don't do that I feel like my claims are not developed.
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ReplyDeleteI have attempted to use the formal method of writing throughout many past assignments but I always seem to find myself using a more simplified version of the process. I have just recently begun to master the art of procrastination and weirdly enough find that it benefits my efficiency of writing under time constraints. With such time constraints I feel that outlining is the best method for prewriting because it is basically a short hand version of your essay that just needs to be developed. Since outlining is so time efficient it allows for focus of the writing and revising stages. When revising I prefer the local revision method because I like to focus sentence by sentence as opposed to the global method which focuses on the bigger picture. Overall I need to improve my time management skills by focusing more on the prewriting stage and attempt to look at the essay as a whole as opposed to single sentences.
To Jasbir:
ReplyDeleteI feel as though our writing processes are very similar. It seems as though we both use a more simplified version of the formal writing process and it seems to work for the majority of the time. I too find myself straying from the thesis statement throughout the essay but then attempt to connect it back towards the conclusion which is definitely a bad habit. I am glad to hear that someone also shares my less than perfect writing habits but I only plan to improve on the future months to come.
I have had the same writing process my entire life. Like many have said, I like to free write. I pretend I am giving a speech to the class or whatever the situation calls for. It helps me improvise and lets my mind run free. After I write down my first draft, which is the free write, I will start editing. I will take out useless anecdotes and information, which I usually have alot of because that is my way of writing. I will edit the paper a few times and consult teachers, etc. I feel as though I write my best when I can just free write, and not think, just let my brain do the work. I have porblems pre-writing and planning because of this. I think this helps me on tests that are timed because I do not have time to plan, for example the SAT. I usually do very well on the SAT writing section, because I pretend to give a speech and just write. But otherwise I really need to work on pre-writing and planning what to write. I feel like I have great thoughts and ideas but sometimes they get confusing because I write as if I were making a speech. I think Pre-writing would help me in this area.
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ReplyDeleteSuprisingly it seems we have very different writing styles. I tend to look at a writing piece as a whole and not plan at all. I think its good that you plan and revise alot, I wish I did. I also have a problem sometimes of emphasizing the overall idea too much, instead of focusing on the details, as you do. I think I will try to start planning revising more, as well as focusing more on details.
Im the type of person who thinks of so many things when I first get the assignment, but when I actually sit down and begin to write the essay, im blank. So in my writing process i try to jot down as many things as i possibly can when i first see the task. This helps me to analyze the text fully when im writing the essay. Depending on the essay, I draft a couple of times and write my final essay. Other times I just write the essay and revise it once im finished. I know that can sometimes do more harm than good in some situations because I know that if i fully apply myself to an essay it will be impecable! I think that my strength as a writing is writing creatively. Once I have no restrictions to writing, I always compose an excellent piece which surprise me at times when I complete the essay. (Mr Wong.... I wish we had more of these kinds of assignments). The type of writing i need the most improvement on is rhetorical writing. Sometimes I do not spot a rhetorical device as quickly as other students or dig deep into the text and annotate as much as others
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ReplyDeleteI have tried the formal writing process and most often it does not work for me. I often work all my essays in the same way. I start with an informal outlines with just topics or subjects I want to address and in what order in which I am most likely to place them.
After that I begin writing. I often write my essay out of order and will cut and paste the paragraphs while writing or after I am done writing all paragraphs. When writing my essay I usually starting with the topic I often know/understand the most or have the most information about I find easier to work on what I know the most about which leaves more time to focus on the topics that need more work.
When my piece is finished I revise it. Mostly for spelling and grammer I often find it helpful to have my teacher or a peer who I feel can help me read my work, so I can go back and work out the kinks and turn in a good paper.
To Xander,
ReplyDeleteI am going to steal your method for writing on the SAT.... pretend im giving a speech!
To Xander:
ReplyDeleteI understand writing a paper as a speech. I find myself talking to my computer as if it was an audience and it helps me talk and work out my ideas
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ReplyDeleteWhen I first start to write a response to a prompt, or whatever it be, I don't set up constraints or restrictions for myself. If whatever comes to mind first is best fit for the conclusion I start writing the conclusion first, which is why I prefer to complete my full writing process on the computer. I just go from there, really its just what comes to mind.
Sometimes I go through spells of writer's block. I find that the best thing, for myself, is to work on something else. Often time when I am reading or just doing something different ideas come to me. This being said, no matter how much I want to procrastinate it absolutely shatters my writing process.
I personally completely ignore the "formal" writing process, it doesn't work for me so I don't waste my time on it. This plays in to my weakness as a writer. I am not one for revising, in fact I loath it. My mind likes to think "Hey I just wrote this, I already know nothing is wrong with it" or "Hey this is a 10+ page final essay, I don't have the time or patients to re-read it."
If I don't have a clear vision of what I want to write before I start I already know, going into it, that I am going to have issues writing it. As odd and informal as this is going to sound, when I don't know how to interpret a piece of literature I start by making it up. Just assigning random meanings to what I think are symbols. Sometimes this helps shed new light, opening up new, and probably more accurate, interpretations. But truth be told, there isn't a wrong answer, if you can prove it by backing it up with sufficient evidence from the text it isn't wrong.
To: Sherifa
ReplyDeleteTottaly with you on the outline concept. I do not like the idea of brainstorming and writing everything that comes to mind.
Usually I do not follow a writing process. I sit down to write a paper and just write whatever comes to mind however, on certain assignments such as research reports I use an outline to keep my ideas organized and make sure they flow. I do not usually follow the steps of prewriting, writing, and revising although it may actually be helpful, I am a huge procrastinator and find myself at a loss for time to complete all three steps. My strengths as a writer are that I am clear, concise, and get straight to the point. These strengths can also be viewed as weaknesses because sometimes I find it hard to meet a length requirement on an assignment.
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ReplyDeleteMy writing process tends to be a bit of a mess. When I read something I have to write about, I have a bunch of thoughts, but I usually push them together into coherent thoughts in my head. By the time I finish reading, I usually have a good idea of what I want to write about, but I make a really rough outline to make sure that all my ideas are in order and relevant. My thoughts tend to be pretty unorganized, and even though my outlines usually consist of one or two words per point, they help me to remember what I'm writing about if I get caught up whilst making my paragraphs. Formal outlines don't help me as much because by the time I end up making a detailed outline, I already have nearly a whole paper and have wasted too much time writing something I'm just going to write again. I like the idea, but not necessarily the full execuation of an outline.
I guess I roughly follow the Writing Process, as I do Pre-Write, Write, and then Revise, but when it comes down to the specifics, I tend to cluster many of the parts together or leave certain parts out because I feel they're unnecessary. For example, I don't really brainstorm much because I'm thinking while I read, so brainstorming after the fact is just unnecessary. And when it comes to global and local revision, I usually do them simultaneously.
To Yan:
ReplyDeleteIf you're having touble with injecting your personal voice into your writing, try to make it sound less formal than you normally would for an essay. Since you usually have the ideas and analysis down, try to make your essay sound more like a conversation between you and your reader, or, as Xander said, like a speech to many people. Don't necessarily think of it as something you're writing just to write, think of it as your own explanation that you're sharing with your own spin.
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