Limiting myself of time will not allow me to examine my ideas or rewrite my essay more thoroughly. It is necessary me to introduce myself to revising and rewriting; getting into the habit of looking at my essay over and over again rather than assuming that it is already good enough. I also need to practice understanding the prompt and doing what it is asking instead of sitting for hours, wondering what other ideas I should write about. I must always assume that my writing can always be improved; it can always be rearranged or even taken out …show more content…
I need to give myself more than one night to complete a rough draft and a final draft; maybe, I will give myself a week before the essay is due. During that week of writing, I would have already outlined my ideas, written a rough draft that deals mostly on my main points rather than correct grammatical structure, revised and rewritten the essay, and edited the revised version. When outlining, I could draw web diagrams, map out, and continue to bullet point my topic ideas. While writing, I could simply write down my main ideas in sentences that do not have to be grammatically structured; according to Lamott “The first draft is the child’s draft, where you let it pour out and let it romp all over the place”. In the first draft, I could let out all my thoughts and not care about syntax; writing my first draft it supposed to explain my main points. After writing, I would revise what I had written and then rewrite the entire essay over again. When editing, I could reread my revised essay and check for grammar mistakes rather than checking for mistakes right after the first draft as I usually do. After completing my new writing process, I would not publish my essay without reading and revising it