Reflective Essay: My Prewriting And Writing Process

Typically, I tend to struggle with introductions, conclusions, and capturing detail when it comes to writing. I always write the body paragraphs first, typically followed by the conclusion, leaving the introduction for last. I find by the time I have written everything else, I am able to pull ideas from the essay and incorporate them into the introduction. I use spell check via Microsoft Word, an online thesaurus and dictionary, and sites like Grammerly.com for editing purposes.
In week one, my prewriting and planning process happened at the same time. Coming up with three ten year goals was easy and an outline was quickly formed. There was very little prewriting as I currently have goals in place. I knew I wanted the essay to follow the order in which I expect to fulfill my goals, the informal outline was easy to accomplish and drafting began. The hardest part of this paper was the introduction; I wanted to capture the reader immediately. With careful thought and a good bit of revising I had the perfect lead-in: “Growing up I was the odd ball; all of my friends and siblings knew what they wanted to do when they grew up. They had big goals and even bigger dreams. Instead, my future involved …show more content…
Prewriting consisted of listing and interview style: I imagined questions one might ask in an interview and wrote the answers down. As I organized my thoughts I decided I wanted the compare and contrast paragraphs to follow the same order if possible; after all, we are taught our paper need to be organized and flow. I labeled each answer or list: A, B, & C; and then started drafting my block paragraphs. I drafted the compare paragraph first followed by the contract paragraph; all the A items together, then the B items, and finally the C items: this seemed to give both paragraphs unity. I concluded this essay by revisiting the thesis and essay