My Reflection On The Writing Process

This process journal is about how I come up with what I want to write for my process journals on a regular basis. Sometimes it is difficult to write the process journals because I am not sure which parts of my paper or assignment I should reflect upon. Other times I feel like I focus on reflecting one part of my paper. For example, sometimes I feel like I reflect too much on the writing process or the editing process. I initially look at the assignment that I am given and decide what part of that assignment I want to reflect upon. I try my best to alternate between the before, during, and after aspect of writing a paper where I focus on the organization part, the writing part and the editing part. If I have to write a process journal when I am starting to write a paper, I focus on how I am going to write my paper. This really helps especially when I am not sure how to write the paper because sometimes the process journal is how I get the idea on how to write the paper. The other time I write about the organization part is if I started a paper. For this situation it is far more easier to write about the organization steps I took prior to starting that paper. It also helps me revisit what I am planning to write and help …show more content…
This makes it easier to write about the process because I can clearly remember what I did to write that paper. I combine parts of the steps I took during organization and add how I took those steps to help me write the paper. In this process journal I make sure to point out that the organizer that I made prior to writing the paper is a strong foundation for my paper. Personally, the outline that I make before writing my paper really helps me write the paper because it is a skeleton with all the ideas that I want to include in my paper and all I need to do is turn them into sentences. In my writing process, I write about how I transformed the skeleton into a