Thoughts On Outlining

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.

While writing your outline make sure that all of your steps and/or points are in chronological order. This will help your reader to track where you are. Also make sure that you stay on topic with what your are talking about.

What’s the first thing you do before getting started on writing a text? Is it turn on music, get yourself alone in a room, turn on the TV? Whatever it is, everyone has their own writing process. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs state, “…it would seem that if you want to become a more versatile, capable, powerful writer, you need to be pretty aware of which activities, behaviors, habits, and approaches lead to your strongest writing-and which don’t”(170). The writing process has a major effect on the effectiveness of the paper it’s got to do with what it takes you to get the best on paper. My writing process consists of all paperwork, which is related to the writing and music that’ll help me focus.

America lies in the wake of the impending presidential election, which has been shrouded in controversy from its infancy. FBI investigations, leaked emails, private recordings, rape allegations, and indubitable untruths have pledged both front-runners. Despite the foul taste left in the mouth of many Americans by Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, they have come out victorious in their campaign to represent their respective party as the nominee for president. While it was once widely believe that the American people democratically elect the president of the United States, through current influences such as the media, Internet, and growing population an exuberant amount of Americans believe that their vote no longer counts, thus posing the question who’s really in control of the electoral process? In the past, the call to question of the integrity of the electoral processes was strictly reserved for the most devout conspiracy theorist, but with the pullulating concerns over super delegates, average sound mind Americans are not sure the full truth is being told. Has America been fed at noble lie? A simple answer yes, a more complex answer America has been fed a misconception disguised as a lie.

Outlines allow the student to be organized, and allows them to quickly identify when they are just rambling to make word count, or they are off topic. Once the outline is complete the only thing left that needs to be started is the thesis statement, and after all these things are considered I would say the student is off to a great start on this

Throughout English 101, I learned that the following the writing process was imperative. Before taking this class, I use to always skip the pre-writing step considering that it is just an easy and unnecessary step. Consequently, I struggled to figure how to start writing, and most importantly I struggled to figure out the main point while writing the draft. And then I finish the first draft close to the deadline that I do not have time to read it not to mention revising. It was after I started this class that learned that pre-writing is vital, and requires time and attention as it holds the base of the whole writing. My professor used different analogies such as blueprint for building and map for navigation to explain the importance. It really speeded up my writing after I started to utilize it. I have learned outlining before, but part of the pre-writing that I was fortunate enough to learning in English 101 is the writing triangle. Even before outlining, the topic, purpose, and audience of the

Concerning my assignments, I always take hand written notes before writing up either a first draft or segments of one. This allows myself to clearly organise my thoughts to properly delve into the task at hand. Afterwards, I re-organise my first draft in a typed format and begin developing my voice; which happens along the progress of my written piece, creating a stronger and more advanced piece of writing.

My method has changed since this class. I always knew what an outline was but now I have implemented it into my pre-writing. Before, I write I try to make an outline of all of the topics that will go into the essay. After, the outline is finished, the biggest lesson I’ve learned to get my paper started is to simply start typing. It doesn’t matter

Have you ever felt that feeling when you know what to write, but you don't know how to write it? If yes, it would be best to organize it by creating an outline. By doing this, it would be easier to fill your blanks.

Initially, a writer should do an outline before starting any essay. An outline can help to organize his or her main points in order to build an introduction, body and conclusion. This method of pre writing was something that I had never been exposed to prior to receiving an example outline from Professor Vilceus. By studying the example, I went from zero knowledge about an outline to creating ones that made arranging essay material uncomplicated.

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.

Freewriting has been a strategy for me in previous classes as well as on my own. When I start to write a paper or an essay, I like to write down everything I know about the subject first, my own thoughts and information I have stored away. In order to choose certain ideas, I compare what I have already learned about the subject versus information I conduct research on. I tend to brainstorm as well and pick out the major ideas to the subject I'm writing about, so the reader can understand my concept. However, throughout the freewriting process, I've already set in my mind how I will write my paper or

In high school, there were three different types of writing assignments we had to complete. The first was analyzing an unseen text, the second was writing an essay based on the theme of two plays, and the last was a creative writing task. For each of them, I took a different approach for coming up with the ideas I was going to write about. The ideas came from research about the topics given, or general themes looked at during class. However, for any writing assignment I would always create an outline first, whether it was an in class essay or an essay written at home. If it was an essay that was written over time, our teacher required us to hand in drafts, and would set aside class time to peer edit. Most of the time the feedback given was

Before I enrolled at Daytona State, I attended Phoenix University online where I took the course University Academic Writing. In the beginning of this course, we learnt about the steps of writing an essay by first starting with prewriting. Back in middle school and high school, my only exposure to the concept of prewriting was a type of brainstorming that involves drawing a main circle with the overall topic and then adding adjacent circles with sub-topics, of which then branch out with information. Nowadays, I prefer to use two methods that I learnt in the writing course: invisible writing and outlining.

Whenever an assignment was given, I used to just write everything that I could think of, similar to a free write. After doing a free write in my scrap notebook, I would then go back and insert examples from the text to further prove my points. After taking this class, I learned that is the incorrect way to write academic papers and that the best way is to make an outline instead so that I can make sure that every point is proven, clear, accurate, and most importantly understandable. I was able to see the improvement of how outlines helped through my first essay. The essay was about picking out an image and explaining its means to the visual context and its impact on culture. My first draft I had learned that I needed to step back and see