Free writing

called free writing. This is a form of pre-writing. It is important to become familiarized with this technique. Most English professors use this tool to assist their students with organizing their creative thought. However, this style is criticized frequently. Although it is not widely agreed upon, free writing is effective. Most students identify free writing as an activity that is exclusively for the improvement of writing skills. However, educators use it as a technique to teach. Many educators use free writing to govern their classroom’s daily activities. Free…

What exactly is free writing? It is a stepping stone, that helps writers step away from the notorious writer’s block and create a new beginning. When one is free writing they are advised to write continuously for a certain period of time without pausing regardless of reason. More often then not these free write produce nothing but random thoughts going through our heads but they create a gateway to a fresh start. We will take two essays, Elbow’s “FREEWRITING” and Lamott 's “Shitty First Drafts”…

In the articles “Free Writing” and “Desperation Writing”, written by Peter Elbow discusses the difference between free writing and desperation writing. This article is very helpful to read as a college student. It can help you decide what type of writer you are and how to become a better writer. It is pretty simple, as a free writers begin writing their papers and do not stop. They do not stop to edit or revise. They jot down any thoughts or ideas they have. Once they have finished with all of…

The goal of free writing is to help students record their observations and make connections through their own writing. Free writing exercises can be setup at the beginning and/or end of class. Writing at the beginning of class helps students recollect information shared in the previous class, while writing at the end of class helps students remember the information discussed during class and ways they can restructure the information to put in in their own words (Foulk 6). To further enforce the…

Free Fall As the night carries on I start to drift into an endless sleep, which could last forever. When I wake up all around me is the smell of grass on a little hill with a massive mountain in the background. The fog creeps up on me, as if it is winter, as these people that look wealthy dressed in fancy robes walk upon me. The flag they carry is triangular with two checkerboards going across the top and the bottom, between the checkboards there is a blue background with white birds with…

It seems that determinism are in conflict with free will. Compatibilism is a concept that free will and determinism are compatible. In this paper, I will first state the contradiction between free will and determinism, then illustrate what is compatibilism, with most of the the problem that a compatibilist would face regarding freedom. To begin, determinism is that “human behavior is entirely governed by causal law” (Ayer, 1954, p.271). It means that every action is caused by an earlier event.…

In Saint Augustine Confessions, Augustine recounts not only the story of his life, but he also discusses religious and philosophical explications, as exemplified by his cogitation of evil. Specifically throughout Book VII, Augustine contemplates the origins of evil and the reasoning behind its existence in a world fashioned by an omnipotent, virtuous God. Through the logic expressing that everything generated by God is good and thus, God did not create evil, Augustine defines evil as the…

Is human behavior determinism or free will? Many would argue that every action that we do is done by our free will and others would say that human behaviors are completely determined by prior events. In my opinion, I believe that that events that we experience have already been determined by factors such as science and experiences that we’ve been through in the past. There are a few reasons why I believe that human behavior cannot be a result of free will. Firstly, some choices just can’t be…

One of the major questions of philosophy concerns the concept of self, and whether we, as humans, function as individual selves or as one greater, universal self. If a true self does exist, another question arises around freedom and, more specifically, to what extent is an individual free to make choices that affect the rest of their life. At one extreme, a person could argue that one does not have any freedom whatsoever, and that all the events of life are predestined and would occur regardless…

Freedom When one considers freedom, he or she may think of the ability to choose what to do and when to do it. In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, freedom is one issue the main character, Alex, has to deal with. In the novel, it states, “If lewdies are good that is because they like it…” (Burgess, Clockwork 40). This points to the idea that if people are good, they are choosing to be such due to a desire to do the right thing. If people do not have the option to choose, they are…