Freewriting In English 121 Class

"Wait a minute. Wait a minute Doc, uh, are you telling me you built a time machine ... out of a DeLorean?" -- Marty McFly This is to the concern of a young man in the past. Who lives in Paso Robles, California, named Jamin L. Davis. The year of 2010. In the future of 2016, we have finished an English 121 class at Pikes Peak Community College. Our experience in this 121 class has changed everything we thought we knew about approaching an essay. The process is much more complex, but if applied to an individual’s writing practices in this time stream they will be set up for absolute success in the English 121 class of 2016. I have discovered there is a better approach to writing an essay. One that will change our views of the writing process forever. First, probably the most impactful methods I have learned in this 121 class was how to start an essay. We were taught by mom to start an essay with the introduction, body, and then conclusion. However, there is a very different method in higher level English, and this is doing the body of the essay first, then introduction and …show more content…
Freewriting is way to know what to write about, and to create ideas by writing for 5 to 10 minutes of non-stop writing. No grammar checks, no due dates, no formatting, and no right way of writing. The idea is eliminating all distractions from coming up with material for an essay, and to just write what come to mind about the essay. I know we are the most challenged in the very beginning stages of writing an essay, and most afraid of writing something abominable in the eyes of master writers. As a result of that, we turn our mental filter on max, and never begin writing. However, the ideas I have come up with, without any boundaries, has shown to have superior writing material in the essays we write in the 121 class. Due to the Freewriting