Composing Process Essay
Writing is an important process that shapes the student’s thinking process. The majority of papers that I am writing in my undergraduate course at the University of South Alabama required good brainstorming for selecting the topic and also for writing the essays. The essays which were done till now were completed in the same manner, by taking notes from the source texts that I read and re-reading them while conducting my research. Surprisingly, there has not been a change in my composing process till now. Till date, I use my passage copying process where in I copy notes in loose pages or in the word file and use it as my primary and secondary source of data. While I copy text, before starting my papers, I research …show more content…
Before that, I did not require an in-depth analysis on any of my coursework. But this is a new subject for me, though I have fair idea on Greeks and Romans. So I started collecting related material by copying passages from web sources and online books. By the time I came to write my paper on Greek and Roman civilizations, the passage copying had become an integral part of my composing process. In the process, I read about six journals and two papers collected from Google scholar and drafted a 13-page notebook filled with around 35 passages. I have further highlighted important parts of the collected …show more content…
I have come across task of using visual aids while speaking and I had to select a topic. I chose architectural design and I wanted to use graphic design in the presentation which I was using as visual aid. I also had to write a paper on the process. I wanted to use graphic design to make the work even more interesting. The graphic design work had to be done by hand. So I have decided to use screencasting to capture the process on computer screens, while I make the presentation. Screencasting helped me to increase the efficiency of making the presentation and also in writing paper on visual aids. So, till I found a design that suits well for the presentation, I manually manipulated the text. By the time, the final version came into being, all I had to do was that I could create a much neater version. Even though the class focused on different concepts of visual aids, I used patterns of sketching, and tapping. After I found these tools effective, I used them within my work on creating presentations in other classes. I used them to effectively create a visual
Writing is an important process that shapes the student’s thinking process. The majority of papers that I am writing in my undergraduate course at the University of South Alabama required good brainstorming for selecting the topic and also for writing the essays. The essays which were done till now were completed in the same manner, by taking notes from the source texts that I read and re-reading them while conducting my research. Surprisingly, there has not been a change in my composing process till now. Till date, I use my passage copying process where in I copy notes in loose pages or in the word file and use it as my primary and secondary source of data. While I copy text, before starting my papers, I research …show more content…
Before that, I did not require an in-depth analysis on any of my coursework. But this is a new subject for me, though I have fair idea on Greeks and Romans. So I started collecting related material by copying passages from web sources and online books. By the time I came to write my paper on Greek and Roman civilizations, the passage copying had become an integral part of my composing process. In the process, I read about six journals and two papers collected from Google scholar and drafted a 13-page notebook filled with around 35 passages. I have further highlighted important parts of the collected …show more content…
I have come across task of using visual aids while speaking and I had to select a topic. I chose architectural design and I wanted to use graphic design in the presentation which I was using as visual aid. I also had to write a paper on the process. I wanted to use graphic design to make the work even more interesting. The graphic design work had to be done by hand. So I have decided to use screencasting to capture the process on computer screens, while I make the presentation. Screencasting helped me to increase the efficiency of making the presentation and also in writing paper on visual aids. So, till I found a design that suits well for the presentation, I manually manipulated the text. By the time, the final version came into being, all I had to do was that I could create a much neater version. Even though the class focused on different concepts of visual aids, I used patterns of sketching, and tapping. After I found these tools effective, I used them within my work on creating presentations in other classes. I used them to effectively create a visual