Reflective Essay: The Most Important Steps In My Writing Process

My writing process, no matter what, always includes brainstorming, rough drafts and proofreading. When I receive an assignment I read the question over what feels like a million times till I fully understand what it is asking. I will make notes on the handout and as soon as ideas come to my mind i will jot them down, even if I do not end up using them. As soon as I get ideas i role with it, even if I have to go back in the end and change everything. Rough drafts come next. I like to write them out first so i can scribble and make notes to myself and fill things in when i need to. I write in pen so sometimes by drafts can be more rough then they should be, but that is how i like it. After my essay is all finished I proofread, many many times.

In this chapter, Lunsford details the planning and drafting process for a writer to organize their ideas with either a formal outline or a rough plan. Lunsford reminds writers to be flexible during the drafting process and not to think twice about changing elements of the essay at this point in the process. Lunsford goes on to explain the qualities academic paragraphs must have these include unity, development and coherence. To obtain unity within a paragraph all sentences should relate to the topic sentence of the paragraph. When developing a paragraph it is important to switch between general and specific ideas in the paragraph, while supporting those ideas with details, evidence and examples as required. Ensuring a paragraph is coherent is crucial when developing an academic paragraph. Because readers need to be able to follow a writers ideas easily, Lunsford gives her readers a method to follow to achieve this goal. This method includes using the general to specific ideas, repetition, parallel structures, and using transition words. The author notes that this method should also be used to link paragraphs

After reading chapter 6, (p198-218) of Bogdan, R. & Biklen, S. K., it suggests that, whatever I am writing, I need to know how to choose the right words, construct all the sentences, and organize to see that end of my writing it reflects my real intentions. Also, in the writing the process should have, The beginning tells what you will do in the paper, it lays out the contents, the middle section develops, argues, and presents your findings, and the conclusion may summarize what you have said (Bogdan &

From the requirements phase, I move into a content creation phase. This phase is largely dependent tone and subject matter of the composition. If I am writing a persuasive essay, I spend the majority of my time researching and placing supporting evidence into my document.

This process worked good for me because I made sure to take my time with each step of the process and dedicate at least an hour to each part of the process especially the outline and rough draft which took longer. The outline and brainstorming helped set the tone for my rough draft and gave me a good head start on how to make my statement for the argument or Ed Dante as well as set up how I was going to organize each point I am proving. After finishing the rough draft the next thing that helped the most with the final draft was the peer review. By having fellow students who are writing about the same topic as I am give feedback adds a lot of help to my paper because they are giving information that I may have forgot and could become key parts of my

Outline, planning, revising, rough and final draft, grading. This is the typical process for writing an essay, I however as a young high school student never followed this. I started with an idea in my head and go on from there. I never considered a need to plan and prepare an outline, just to write a rough draft that I would have to revise, draft, and draft again. It would just be easier to start writing the final draft first right? No. This class has taught me many strategies on how to accustom my writing to a college level. Over the semester in this class I have grown, learned how to effectively draft, and experienced argumentative writing first hand.

The first step is something I like to call, The Royal Rumble of Ideas. The path in which my paper will follow as well as my thoughts and ideas are formed from the first process. The way in which it does this, is by requiring the writer to apply an abundant amount of focus on one particular area; whereas, the typical strategy, asks for the writer to just write (cue eye roll). If I am to construct a story, I must utilize this step. En passant, I might add, the crux of the former element is very much similar to the latter, as well as in the way in which it works. The commonality to which I am referring, is rumination. The simplicity of it is bemusing, especially considering it’s efficiency, but I will describe that later. The way this is utilized, is by requiring the writer to mull over what they will write next. For example: When I am writing, regardless of the type of paper, I will deeply contemplate what my next sentence will be and how it will be phrased. Incidentally, in English class, I will often be seen staring into the ether, as if I am on a psychotropic drug. There is, however, a reason behind this seemingly sinister image. As I described, rumination is crucial in my writing process: In order to produce a sentence, or a paragraph for that matter, I must distill information from that contemplation. (See, it even

My writing process is very simple and mostly like the authors in the video. The writing process I use while I write is simple tool to use, it only has 5 parts to it. Everybody process different an author can have also have multi ways to write depending on this subject you are writing on. To me it is the beginning of the writing process is the most important step in the writing process. Before I write my paper I brainstorms thoughts and topics and also my platform. Some people do not like to brainstorm before they write but I have to in order to write a good paper. I like to make an outline of what I want to say by making a list of what I could possibly use in my paper. The next writing process is the longest and hardest for me because I have

My writing process starts before pen meets paper. When I receive the assignment and read the rubric, my mind starts working. I have a general idea of what I am going to write about, along with a few main points. My writing process is like a puzzle; it is very confusing to most, but makes sense to me. I have realized my faults and how important it is to be more organized in order to improve my writing process.

Also I have learned that by doing the draft step by step as in introduction, body, and conclusion also helped me get through the process of writing the draft. Not doing all the draft at once really helped because if did not feel the pressure of having to finish it all together. First, I would do the introduction and then maybe thirty or sixty minutes later, I would do the body, then after another short brake, I would do the conclusion. This has helped a lot with my draft because between those breaks I would think of something else to include in the paper. As well as giving my self time to think this way of drafting gave me an opportunity to check me paper more thoroughly because I would check each section individually and that way I found mistakes I would have missed before.

Incubation: This was my favorite step because it allows me to relax and gather all the information I had and I used it to reorganized my paper and to maybe add things that I forgot to or delete sentences that may have been

When you begin the drafting process you start the organizational process all of your ideas for the rough draft. You don’t have to focus as much on proofreading, but instead getting all of your ideas in that order that makes the most sense (and conveys your thesis clearly) to your audience. On the occasion that I write my ideas separately I organize them by writing each paragraph first, then piecing them together like a

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As a writer at the beginning of my college career, when I sit down to ignite my writing process, the preliminary step varies depending on the formality and audience at hand. In an informal setting, I often begin causally, jotting down ideas on a piece of paper or in a journal. Typically it ends up being a long paragraph of running ideas and tangents regarding different occurrences and topics. When faced with a prompt or formal writing, I like to first analyze the topic and determine the purpose of the instructed writing. Once the points and guidelines are clear and a general topic surfaces, I begin to narrow it down and create at least three main points from which I can construct my thesis. The majority of the time, I push my introduction off until the end, and begin writing my body paragraphs based on individual subtopics. My prewrite within the subtopics is fairly brief; usually, I list two or three concrete details on which I can elaborate. After writing my commentary to each concrete detail, I return to add in transitions and double-check my diction and syntax. Once my body paragraphs are complete, I work to restate my thesis and ideas into a conclusion, and brainstorm a clever introduction hook. My personal formal writing process is complete with its final stage once I sit and read my paper aloud in order to improve wording and over looked grammar mistakes.

The objective study is to review the various stages within the writing process from beginning to production of the final edited version of the work in writing. Writing begins with the determination of the subject that will be at focus in the work in writing. There are various stages in the writing process and each of these is individually important to the collective whole of the written document. Upon having made a choice as to the topic that is to be examined the writer must then consider which specific aspects of the topic are to be examined and which aspects of the topic are not as important and will receive a perfunctory review. This will entail an outline that lists the subcategories of the topic at hand and the elements within each subcategory within the topic.