Writing process

Project 1 - Personal Writing Process I like to think of myself as a creative writer. However, it is true that the majority of my writing time is dedicated to educational writing for school. So currently I am a creative writer in spirit and an educational writer out of necessity. I have taken around seven English classes so far in my college career including Critical Thinking and Logic, American Literature, Topics in Multi-Ethnic Literature, and Creative Writing. All of those courses…

When I sit and write it takes hours until the writing product is finished. Whether I am sending an email; which takes about an hour, to writing a major term paper; which would usually take about seven hours, the hardest and longest part is actually starting. We all have a spot in our home or at school where we like to sit and work. Its comfortable enough to sit for a few hours without physically straining yourself and where you can have all your notes organized in your own unique system. For…

which I actually liked. We mainly focused on the writing process, writing papers, and writing journals. At first I didn’t really understand why we went through the writing process. After the first couple of times we did them though, I understood why. It was to help us figure out what we wanted to write about and to help outline the paper. The best writing process I had was the Informative Essay one. The reason why it was my best writing process is because I had a great invention. Before we…

and capturing detail when it comes to writing. I always write the body paragraphs first, typically followed by the conclusion, leaving the introduction for last. I find by the time I have written everything else, I am able to pull ideas from the essay and incorporate them into the introduction. I use spell check via Microsoft Word, an online thesaurus and dictionary, and sites like Grammerly.com for editing purposes. In week one, my prewriting and planning process happened at the same time.…

Going into this class I felt that I had a fairly good understanding of writing. However, after receiving my first paper back it became quite apparent that the skill with which I had written in high school would not be sufficient at the collegiate level. My writing was wordy and inefficient, my punctuation was riddled with errors, especially with comma placement, and my theses were weak, and with poor attention to audience. By my second paper I had drastically improved the efficiency of my words,…

I have been writing my whole life. Although I had rocky beginnings, my writings have been steadily improving. I know even now i am not a very good writer, but I am doing as much as I can to strengthen this skill. Throughout this Word 103 class I have learned a lot about writing and have grown in many ways. But my main focus of this paper will be of how I have grown in Rhetorical knowledge and I will analyze my writing process. Throughout this trimester I have written essays of different genres,…

Before I commenced in my writing I first started by having a book where I wrote down random thoughts about the topic I was going to write about. This is to say that I went through the planning stage. I developed a working thesis, I brainstormed and I concentrated on what I was going to write about. I asked myself what impression I wanted to portray. Which message did I want to convey? And of course what goal did I want to achieve at the end of it all. I also made a list that I wrote on major…

For eighteen years, I have roamed this earth, and for thirteen of those years I have been able to harness my craft in writing. As I look back on those times, I see how much I have improved. I learned that I despised word count essays and loved creative writing assignments. My literacy journey began in kindergarten where they taught us how to write out the alphabet, my name, and simple sentences. I don’t remember everything that about my time in kindergarten, but I do remember how frustrated I…

The article “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” by Donald M. Murray talks about how teaching writing as a product is ineffective, and that teachers should be teaching writing as a process. The article’s purpose is to persuade teachers to teach writing as a process instead of a product. The article “Reading and Writing with Purpose: In and Out of School” focuses on the emergence of informal learning, and what teachers can do to bring informal learning into the classroom. The article’s…

into college as a freshman, worrying on passing your classes, it probably didn 't occur to you how different your classes are from high school; at least not for me. Specifically speaking in your writing classes. This essay analyzes my perspective on the different aspects of high school and college writing. I, as a freshman, realized coming into college, is that something as simple as generating a topic-is completely different from how you would approach it in college. Everything I was taught…