Essay Describing Your Personal Writting Process

RastaRyan
ENG 101
06 Nov 2011
Word Count: 714
Writing Assignment 1

A jumble of mixed ideas all buzzing about in my brain, I look for the best way to organize these thoughts, and eventually, I am successful. That is the basis for my writing process. I would say my most memorable writing assignment, or rather the most fun, would have to be when I was asked to right a narrative story about a little boy and his adventure. Other than the guidelines given about the character being a little boy and the plot being that of an adventure, I was left to my own imagination and 3rd grade writing prowess to construct the perfect story. Apart from an expanded vocabulary and a better understanding of the formatting for an essay, I still use the same tried and true writing process that was drilled into my young mind and produced the greatest adventure story at Felix A. William Elementary School.

For the planning process, I like to imagine that the topic needs a three part explanation. So I think of three separate topics or ideas to describe or explain the topic at hand. Once I have decided what those three explanations are going to be, I then think up my “hook” or the first sentence the reader will see. As far back as I can remember, the “hook” is important to get the reader involved and interested in what they are about to read. Wielding a strong hook and awesome explanations, I then organize those tools into a introductory paragraph that outlines what will be talked about in the body of the essay to come. Using a sentence to describe each of the three explanations, the introductory paragraph now has a hook and will give the reader insight into what the essay will be focusing on. To me, I feel like this method “mentally prepares” the reader, and makes it so that the full concept of what you are trying to express is absorbed or understood.

Once finished with the introductory paragraph, I use these three sentences in the introductory paragraph as the first sentences of each paragraph that will further expand on those explanations. Always making sure that at the end of each explanatory paragraph I reiterate the main point or explanation of said paragraph. I was taught that it is always wise to go into as much detail as possible so as to fully express that idea or explanation, And to focus on only that idea or explanation so as to keep the reader focused on the points being made.

Moving swiftly through my writing process, its finally time for the conclusion. In the conclusion I sum up all my ideas that were expressed in the body, making references to previous statements, and also I try to talk collectively and summarize the overall intent of my essay. Adding a joke or “parting words” as you would say, to give a feeling of ending or proper finish to the essay, rather than abruptly ending the essay or making it feel unfinished.

After I have written what I feel is a perfect essay, I then proof read it and pick apart the mistakes in my “perfect essay”. Spelling errors, grammar deficiencies, and always tricky punctuation hazards are cleared and finally I can call it the perfect essay and end the reviewing process. Moving forwards to the grieving process in which my English teacher returns my paper with the much feared red ink pen marks, I then use a combination of the undisputed knowledge of my instructor, and their trusty red ink pen, with my iron clad writing prowess to then produce the perfect essay 2.0. At last I can finally rest easy and submit my final draft.

To end this essay before I get pushed on to a second page by my word processor, I would like to say that this adequately describes my writing process. From the planning process all the way to the review, despair, red ink pen, and finally “perfect essay 2.0” process. Thank you for taking the time to read my essay and I look forward to the despair process to follow the submission of this essay, and the perfect essay 2.0 process to supersede that.