My Writing Process: Different Forms Of Formal Documents

Over the years, I have had to write many different forms of formal documents. In elementry school, I remember being taught to map my ideas when trying to generate topics to write about. It worked very well for me at first because it helped me visually. Since then, my writing process has changed as well as my reasons for writing.

While I was in the military, I frequently had to fill out different documents and official notes that would be passed along my Chain of Command. Each of my superiors would revise these documents so I would would typically use a listing method prior to filling out the documents in order to avoid missing any information. This kind of writing is by far my least favorite, but it is the one i most commonly find myself having to do. On the other end, I enjoy to journal in my freetime. I will write about anything from how I am feeling to my political and religious views and typically use freewriting as my source of gathering my ideas. Although journaling is my favorite form of writing, it is also the one I am least confident in and I would never put any of it on any kind of public forum. …show more content…
As well as that, my process for writing has grown more diverse. I no longer use the mapping method as I did as a young student. I preferably make lists and use discovery drafting as I did for this assignment. My goal with all of this is to expand my organization skills throughout the writing