How Planning Ahead Helped My Writing

Writing is a powerful tool for communication and connection. As an extension and expression of the mind, writing is as much about the mental processes of the author as it is about the final marks laid to paper. As we write, we hold in mind our own thoughts on the work, anticipate the reader’s thoughts, and think both in concrete and abstract ways in order to accomplish the task at hand. Whether an academic research paper, a novel, or text message to friends, writing seeks to engage, persuade, or impress concepts upon an audience. Like language and other art forms in general, the practice of writing is ever-evolving and is subject to cultural and contextual influence, expectations, and conventions. Each writer holds a theory

English 10 has been one bizarre adventure from formal writing, to poetry, and then to creative writing. In this course, I have learned that there’s always room for improvement in everything I do. As a child, I struggled with writing, as English is my second language. This course has helped me grow in my writing skills, making it an enjoyable experience. Some of the strengths I have discovered in my writing is planning and editing. I tend to plan ahead of time before I write, so I have a clear understanding of what I am going to write. My editing skills are also extremely strong because I often edit to a greater extent than needed. I have come to improve the vocabulary in my essays because as I edit, I replace the weak words in my writing.

Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”

Teachers, parents, and friends often tell students exactly what the writing process should entail and how long it should take. However, the older I get, the more I realize that the writing process varies not only from person to person, but also from one writing project to the next. Throughout my years of life, I have written countless papers, ranging from a persuasive speech to an extensive research paper, and each project requires an altered version of my personal writing process. While each individual has his own writing process, there can be many similarities between different writing processes. Finding one’s individual writing process takes trial, error, and repetition. When an individual finally uncovers his unique writing process, better thought, work, and writing is produced.

"What writing is," wrote by Stephe King. In his opinion , he makes an argument of definition and writing is to compare a reason, when you want to explain something, talking about the history. Also, writing is a change of heart predator everyday lives expressing emotion are own or writing even is a language culture and a frame of a country without limit. To begin with "What Writing is" the author was believe writing offers the purest distillation. Because when your write, it just like a telepathy you can make your thinking be visible and when you writing by your seriously you will never lose your voice. For example, when you have a construction, if you construct your far- seeing a place, you can design with your idea and be different with anyone

Flannery O’Connor, a great American novelist, once said that she writes because “I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” Writing is not just a torture device that English teachers bestow on students. We write for the ability to express ourselves and to set memories in stone for the future.

I decided to take the action of enrolling in this preparatory writing class. My reasoning behind this class is quite simple. I need to prepare myself for writing papers at the college level. Therefore, the information learned will ease the load of work for college papers, and could even carry over towards a job in the long-term future. My typical approach to writing for an assignment is to clearly portray a topic, while keeping the transition from point to point as smooth as possible. With that being said, I feel that my greatest strength as a writer is being able to create an interesting paper no matter the topic. Whether it is a topic that initially intrigues you or not, I believe in my ability to hook a reader into any type of paper. On the other hand, the biggest downfall in my writing would be how I organize and sort topics out. I also struggle with the diversity in my word

In addition to introductory paragraphs, I also struggled with coming up with topics to write about. I love that sometimes teachers and professors gave me a free range of topics to correspond to. It helps with the creative aspect of my writing. In spite of that, when I

An outline of a good piece of writing has an introduction, explanation and/or reasoning for the introduction, and a conclusion at the end, which normally answers all and any questions from the introduction. I was taught that way and now whenever I need to write a paper or an essay, it’s my ‘go-to’ outline. Whatever I am writing about it is very necessary that I have someone else look over my writing. Though I do believe I am a very good writer, it doesn’t hurt to have

If you were to type in “writing is…” into a search bar, the first suggestion that would pop up would be “writing is hard.” In many ways it can be, writing is an outlet to put all your personal thoughts and experiences onto a paper for all to see and criticize is nerve- racking. For any person writing can be a struggle to piece together their thoughts into coherency, but it is all part of the bigger process. Writing can help you convey what you truly believe and let your creativity run free through putting a part of yourself into your work. It is a way to let out any powerful emotions about something that is happening in your life in a healthy, almost therapeutic way. This idea of revealing your true self for your work can be seen in Leon Uris’s quote that states,” You can lie to your wife or your boss but you cannot lie to your typewriter sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.” The author uses the typewriter as a metaphor for an object you can confide in and not lie to much like a diary.

Writing allows me to express my views as a student. I have always enjoyed writing well as speaking. By writing first, then preparing and reciting notes, I am able to push through the nervous jitters when I have to speak at work. Writing first, then speaking will help you get a clear message across (Young, 2006). For me, being able to write has been healing. As I am sure most families experience issues of some kind, my family had many issues while I was a child. So, writing was and still is a tool for me to get things out and off of mind. A few friends of mine say they do not like to write and would not do it unless they had to. I encourage them to find something they want to learn about, then read about it and the writing will come. We can become passionate in writing about what we are interested in learning about (Quinn, 2015). Well, I do have to write for this class and for school in general. But, I choose to view it as an extension of what I already like to do, which is express my thoughts and understandings about what I read or study. The only difference with school is that someone is telling me what I have to read or study. This can make the learning less passionate, but if I can find one little thing that I can grab on to, it seems to provide me with a purpose to write.

After reading the giving pages this week there are many things I do when writing a paper that Newman suggest that everyone do when writing. When it comes to prewriting I am not so good in that area. Sometimes, I fail to do this this step in my writing and it needs to be completed every time to get all my thoughts out clearly. "Prewriting means that a writer begins with a file folder full of notes, outlines, and lists. You must think about the form of the report and audience. Thinking time is important. It often occurs in spurts over weeks before the bulk of composing begins". This is an important step in writing and that step gives us time to think about our topics fully before we begin an assignment correctly. Another topic that stood out

Writing is a way to express our feeling and thoughts, and it helps us to convey memorable memories in our life on to paper. For most people writing is meditation, but for me writing gives me peace of mind and writing is stress relief. I like to share some marvelous facts about writing, and how it affected me as a writer. Writing can offer many rewardss when practiced regularly. Writing brings sense of peace and it can help better one’s memory.

Personally I feel that writing can be a great source in expressing our feelings, hopes, and dreams that can’t be conveyed through spoken words. Especially, looking at Autobiography of Red in which Geryon used writing to document moments in his life and how he felt during that time. The only down fall with writing is my case is organizes my thoughts to flow how I would like them to.

The article clearly explains the need of a writer to plan on what they intend to write about before getting down to the actual work. While this is also a thing that Bromley covers in the work of 2003 where the chapter covers the writing process. From the chapter, Bromley places planning as the first step in writing any piece of work then followed by the other steps such as drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. This planning process which has been identified in both the article and Bromley gives the writer an insight of what the paper is to entail. It is realizable that when it comes to becoming a better writer is not a simple path but require determination from the interested party as for Bromley the interested party being the