Essay On My Writing Process

Writing a paper on the writing process is pretty hard. The writing process is different from one person to another. You come across questions like, 'What exactly is the writing process?'; and 'Must you follow one persons writing process if yours is different?'; This is where I came across the answer to my questions, write however you wish to write. If one person likes free write first and another person likes to write a draft first, let them do how they please.

My writing process is like a baby learning how to walk. During their first year, the baby is busy developing coordination and muscle strength in every part of their body. They will learn to sit, roll over, and crawl before moving on to pulling up and standing. From then on, it's a matter of gaining confidence and balance before they start walking. They will fall over and over again but likewise, they will try over and over again until they’re off and eventually running. High school for me was like a baby’s first year when it’s preparing to start walking and this quarter in EWRT 211 was when I gave the first baby steps. With more practice, I’ll be walking with ease in no time. I believe I will be successful in EWRT 1A.

In the 1980s, there was a movie called "Xanadu". It starred Olivia Newton-John as Kira, a muse and one of the daughters of Zeus who, along with her sisters, inspired men to do great things in the arts. She falls in love with Sonny, an artist and inspires him to find his passion and fulfill his true potential even if the gods forbade their relationship.

My experience throughout this class as a writer has been remotely good. I have learned many new ways about how to write an essay because one of my strengths is having a strong memory of the topic and another strength I have in writing is that I am much more experienced on how to describe a subject in great detail and because of this I know what I am capable of doing. I unfortunately still have some weaknesses in writing such as, procrastinating on starting the actual working process and because of this I start to panic on not getting done in time. Over all my writing skills throughout the class has not been what I expected but I did learn more about how to properly write an essay, which will help me out more later on in my future classes.

Throughout this semester, and the course of English 1010, my writing has changed a lot. I no longer view writing as an extremely daunting task that I dread with all my heart. However, I still do not find it appealing to write, and I definitely wouldn’t sit down and write for fun.

I think the type of writer that I am is a mix between a casual off and on kind of writer and sorta plans ahead in advance depending on what I'm writing about. The way I approach in writing a paper is to write a topic sentence first, then look for facts to support my topic sentence, that I can spread out between three to four sentences and then I try to find a proper way to conclude what I covered in rephrasing facts with the topic for the final sentence. Then After I do that if I have to extend the facts to better explain them, I try to think about what kind of wording can I use to better describe the facts to make sense to the reader to clarify so they can see my perspective on what I'm talking about. To conclude all that I think my strength in writing is over thinking what topic I'm writing about because in the past teachers said to me that sometimes I describe too much in fields that were never necessary.

My writing looks like the game Tetris – I write according to how my ideas flow from my head to my paper. The English 1010 lessons are designed to impact my writing processes and since being in the course I have realized the importance of the process while preparing the paper. While I knew that practice and revisions were important to the writing process, the ideas of writing as inherently collaborative or as an extension of technology were not concepts that I had considered at length. For the assignment, I chose to record myself and reflect on my process. The observation of my writing process and decisions took place in an awkward way. I began sitting at my desk in my dorm with a black ink pen, wide-ruled paper, and the prompt of my essay. It took a good bit of time for the process to begin – all the distractions had to run out, frequent checks on social media, quick trip to the snack machine, and responding to text messages. Finally, it was time to start. I can begin. “Ok, outline” I said to myself. “What’s your main point?” And so, I started, pen to paper, writing the three main ideas I knew I wanted to cover in the paper. I did discover, however, that I scratch my head while I am thinking and as I write I would catch myself reading aloud.

Everyone has different techniques in their writing process. Some people analyze the prompt and others simply glance over it. Although, everyone is taught the same writing process they still have their own way of writing. In order to make their paper standout, they need to think creatively. Writing can be a piece of cake or difficult for students. Many students pay attention to certain steps more. I pay more attention to brainstorming ideas, but sometimes in order to be an effective writer I need to focus on everything as a whole. Everyone has their own twist when developing their essay like analyzing the prompt, brainstorming, and proofreading.

I am very good at writing a flowing paper but it can become challenging making my essay not confusing for my reader. I am an auditory/visual learner. For example, in Algebra I need my professor to write the problem on the board and talk through the problem. One strategy that I like to use is prewriting before I actually decide to write my final. Prewriting helps me because I can get all my ideas/thoughts out and before I write the final I edit and get someone to pre-edit it. Prewriting is also good because you can learn what type of writer you are and catch minor mistakes. In order for me to write an essay or start the process I like to have enough time to get focused and I like to put 100% into everything that I write. I get motivation from when I write because I know I am trying my hardest and I love to see how much my hard work payed off. Writing errors that “haunt” me is punctuation meaning not just spelling but not writing run-off

As English is my second language, I have always found it very difficult to express myself on paper. Writing habits that work best for me is to sit down in a quiet room with paper and pen. Brainstorming would be my first choice; I think about everything that comes to mind in regard to a specific subject and jot it down. In addition, I do internet research on topics that are unknown, so I combine the things that I know with my research. Next, I begin my first draft; usually it takes a few times to rewrite until it sounds good. In addition, I think about my audience, my word choice and I also like to use the 5 W’s to keep me on track of my writing. Writing takes time for me so I always want to make sure when I start I complete

Knowing how you like to write and knowing you’re “writing ritual” is a plus to your academic career. It helps you to start writing even if you really don’t want to. Figure out what helps and inspires you in writing can really put a new view on how

As I reflect on my growth as a writer in knowledge and artistry this semester, I cannot help but notice how writing has become a way to show my beliefs and express my personal life in a way that is casual and inviting to people with different beliefs and perspectives. Essentially, all writing reflects universal human experience, and I have grown to showcase that experience in my writing, not for the sake of relatability, but to give an underlying reason as to why I am writing and reflecting on certain topics. I have also become comfortable with writing fiction and nonfiction by growing in the knowledge of how to write those genres, which I believe is a great foundation for the writing I hope to do one day, particularly in the short story, monologue, and memoir. These assignments helped me formulate other perspectives through fictional characters and with regard to events that I either created or do not remember well.

This is the first time I’ve had any formal kind of training/help with my poetry and I can definitely tell there is a change in my writing process. I don’t feel like my overall writing has improved, more like now I know how to properly use it. Usually, I just write down a bunch of words but by having constraints I would never give myself I was able to really stretch my abilities and write some decent stuff that wouldn’t have existed otherwise. I feel like the most useful thing I learned how to utilize stanza structure because I’ve never really given it much thought before. I feel like I also learned to be more expressive in how I write because you pushed me to use more imagery. I used to just write poems exactly how I thought of them which meant there was no grammar and really long lines which I get now aren’t as cool as using a formal structure. This whole class overall really helped to challenge me to make my poems more accessible because I’ve never written a poem that anyone else has read before, so I feel like that’s a good kind of challenge. I really feel like I’ve learned exactly what my style is, because before I either wasn't interested or just didn’t give it much thought. And by learning exactly what my style is I can polish it and really excel.

I do not like writing, I do not like proofreading, and I most certainly do not like time consuming projects. Those were my thoughts at the beginning of the semester. I have never written about something that I truly care about, I did not realize the power of a voice. Writing and Argument has pushed me to find my voice as a writer and has showed me that there is more to a paper than the requirements.

My writing process is choppy and unorganized, which is interesting because I am quite OCD about everything else I do in my life. I never set aside time to write; I write when I feel like it. Sometimes, it might be days before I return to a work that I have started. As I said before, this is something that I have recently learned about myself because I have never been