It was a really nice meeting you! You wanted me to write about my writing process and here I’m writing it to you in this letter. I will start of with the style of papers I normally write. I usually prefer to write expository papers rather than narrative papers, as I am more of a factual kind of person. To put it another way, I am not really good at creative writing and I find it really hard to write story-based papers. Besides that, I do write e-mails to professors and friends every now and then. I also have a habit of taking notes in class and writing my own to-do lists. However, these types of writing didn’t really influence my writing style because I don’t normally abbreviate things when I write them whether or not it is formal or informal
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.
Writing assignments are absolutely the worst, it is my least favorite thing ever. I am not good at writing, especially on the spot. As soon as I am required to write a paragraph, short story, essay, anything that is not a memo or email, every part me just starts to quiver. Before I can start writing, thoughts of what to write roll around in my head like scatter marbles, trying to come up with what to write. A process that can take anywhere an hour to a day. This shortens if I am even a short story first. Reading a story first release my imagination making my direction much clearer. Once I have a clear vision of what I am going to write, my fingers cannot keep up with the words flying through my head. Traditionally, the textbook teaches to
Many creative minds around the world have their own special ways to prepare themselves for writing. Through writing they can create award winning novels, books, and stories. Out of all these creative minds, none of them have any similarities on how they prepare themselves for writing. Most people assume that writers just sit down in a chair and crack their knuckles then start brainstorming for their writing . Everyone has their own different ways they prepare themselves physically and mentally. Personally before I start writing I have to make myself physically comfortable. For this to happen I have to place myself in a cold and quite environment. Then set a comfortable chair, a clean desk, a laptop, and a drink along with some snacks. After being physically comfortable, I have to then make myself mentally prepared to write by putting ideas down
My writing process in the past has never been concrete. It was even very rare that I had a process or even realized that I had a process going on. All I did was write without revision. For example, one time I had a research paper due the next day. I made the decision to take all of the examples I had, write it out, explain it, then give my take on the example, 30 minutes before it was due. Although it was littered with grammar mistakes, I got a passing grade. However, this anxious direction of writing held me back from creating great writing assignments and projects.Because I was being told constantly that I had "great ideas but terrible form" made writing extremely hard and close to depressing.
Attending Davidson Fine Arts High School, I was constantly tasked with the challenge of writing many papers such as literary analysis, rhetorical device analysis, and my least favorite poetry analysis. Each paper I wrote during high school felt the same as the last one simply because I never felt as though I pressured myself to progress or develop my writing process, since my papers were academically efficient. While writing in high school, I usually viewed a paper as a whole without trying to understand how I went from a blank screen to a 1000-word paper. In addition, a paper was never meant to question me as a writer or to display the most important thing I wanted to be shown about myself through my writing. However, upon entering English
To write my adventure book, I went through all the stages of writing process both in and outside of class to create a book I am proud of. The writing process involves many steps like prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and finally publishing and sharing. For the prewriting stage, we were brainstorming monster characters and the adventures they would go on for a lesson in class and this is where the idea of my adventure book was created. For the drafting stage, I would work on the draft of my story inside and outside of class. When working on my rough draft, I would go back and add more figurative language such as alliterations and onomatopoeias in my story.
How will you use knowledge and skills you’ve developed in this class in your academic career / life? Give examples.
The reason we prewrite is to obtain a lot of raw material and write notes. This way you can come up with strategies that can assist you in writing you first draft. If you try to rush the prewriting phase and start writing too soon, it will lead to a poorly constructed paper. It will be unclear and without true facts. Your teacher will tell you what type and style of paper he or she wants you to write about. First and foremost make sure your topic is approved.
"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process it the beginning." -A B Yehoshua. I have been through a multitude of writing assignments and projects throughout my college career, and I can say that beginning them has always been the hardest thing for me to do. There are many that I don’t remember but, those that I do, are the ones that have influenced my writing technique the most. Some assignments and projects have influenced my writing while working through them, while others I learned from mistakes by eating the dust of a bad grade due to grammatical errors, or poor planning. Both of which, have shaped me to be the writer I am today. There are many weaknesses that I have overcome in the writing process through major assignments,
Writing is labor. It is a skill that requires a person to become monomaniac, as well as fastidious to the craft. Writing takes empathy and demands long periods of time to be alone with one’s self. Writing relies on readers to exist, but the writer ought to shut off the mind’s of readers and creative the work for themselves in order to become authentic. Writing is a skill that requires years of practice, as well as a clear memory and years of a life in order to be relevant in the vast abundance of information that is available for humanity. Writing is the phenomena that advances civilizations and individuals throughout all existence of humanity The writer is a wordsmith, who uses memories and impressions to be printed on the paper to be relived in the minds of a few or the minds of many.
Writing is a big role in a nursing career. Nurses have to communicate efficiently to document or relay information. Learning to write well is an essential skill for nurses because it is vital to show evidence for the critical thinking process. Some of the writing qualities nurses have to exhume are to be clear in documentation for description and thought process skills. Also organize timeline of events for electronic chart records. Nurses have to accurately document with using correct spelling and grammar. Also need to be thorough and complete. This is my driver to learn how to write effectively because of my career.
When I write an assignment, three things are constant; the technology I use (smartphone and laptop computer), the beverage I drink (hot chocolate ), and the location I do my writing (the living room in my house). I am using the final assignment for the course “Introduction to Business” to describe my writing process. In this paper I needed to discuss every aspect of a product, from the manufacturing to the purchase of the final product by the customer.
Writing tends to be one of the best forms of presenting and preserving information. However, “poor” writing may not offer the desired message, is full of errors, offers irrelevant information or is uninteresting to the audience. I have been striving to develop my writing through various activates that entail freewriting and reading the “best” articles. Hence, my writing has significantly improved because it adheres to most of the applicable principles and procedures.
My writing process usually ignores the brainstorming phase and goes straight into the rough draft. I do this because I do better if I just get everything down quick instead of thinking about it. This directly contrasts the process described in the lecture but where my process is similar is in the proofreading and editing stage. Just like in the lecture I read over my rough draft and make changes where I see fit and usually get feedback from another person.
The contents of this portfolio show the transitions in the revision process as I demonstrate growth. There are four papers I wrote this semester, the original and the revised one that I improved according to the instruction and feedback I received over the course of the semester. From unit one to unit four, there is a significant improve in my writing. With the feedback of each paper, I realized which areas I needed to improve and do better on the next paper. The help from writing lab also made me a better writer, but there still much more I need to improve because I am not a strong writer like my fellow classmates. The portfolio also contains artifacts that I perceive as exemplifying my development as a writer. These are my revision memos of the four papers I wrote and revised, plus a selection from my essay that I believe exemplifies my development as a writer. The last part of the portfolio is the Hupomnemata, which contains my in class writing assignments throughout this semester.