My Writing Process
Blossoms and Thorns of the Growing Writer: An Analysis on my Growth Throughout the Year
The four main steps of the writing process are what makes a great writer and throughout this year I learned the importance of these simple steps. The writing process is composed of prewriting, writing, revising, and editing, all of which are equally important. My least favorite step is prewriting, due to my lack of prewriting my papers often ended up without a structure, causing confusion for the reader and making it much harder to read. For my first couple papers, I had not yet fully grasped the importance and need for every step of the writing process which lowered the quality of my paper dramatically. I spent too much time writing because I didn’t have …show more content…
At the beginning of the year my revising skills were very weak, but through the year I made a large leap forward into becoming a better reviser. The first paper I wrote for English 102 was submitted on 22 January 2018 and was aimed at dissecting the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway. This paper lacks much of the revision that “Haz-Are You Right: An Analysis of the Accuracy of The Kite Runner in relation to the Lives of the Hazaras of the Time” contains. The most egregious mistake can be found in the lack of a title on the short story essay written on 22 January 2018. This error is a primary example of why revision is so necessary when typing a formal paper. This was a onetime mistake that I learned from and caused me to spend more revising the remained of my papers. Throughout my first paper I wrote a lot in passive voice and did not fix the paper before turning it in, luckily, I figured this out by the end of the year and believe that I was able to speak in active voice for almost all of my paper. Additionally, in my multicultural essay, I made revisions where I cropped my conclusion so it was smoother while still bringing up the major points that the paper was about. Comparatively, in my first concluding paragraph I wrote “Hemingway uses symbolism in the form of the setting, alcohol, and white elephants to portray […] Hemingway uses the setting to show […] The alcohol was used in the story to symbolize […] The white elephant was a symbol that” ( 22 January 2018). This is a dreadful example of a closing paragraph, it is choppy and hard to read due to my lack of revision; however, I was able to eliminate many of these issues throughout the
The four main steps of the writing process are what makes a great writer and throughout this year I learned the importance of these simple steps. The writing process is composed of prewriting, writing, revising, and editing, all of which are equally important. My least favorite step is prewriting, due to my lack of prewriting my papers often ended up without a structure, causing confusion for the reader and making it much harder to read. For my first couple papers, I had not yet fully grasped the importance and need for every step of the writing process which lowered the quality of my paper dramatically. I spent too much time writing because I didn’t have …show more content…
At the beginning of the year my revising skills were very weak, but through the year I made a large leap forward into becoming a better reviser. The first paper I wrote for English 102 was submitted on 22 January 2018 and was aimed at dissecting the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway. This paper lacks much of the revision that “Haz-Are You Right: An Analysis of the Accuracy of The Kite Runner in relation to the Lives of the Hazaras of the Time” contains. The most egregious mistake can be found in the lack of a title on the short story essay written on 22 January 2018. This error is a primary example of why revision is so necessary when typing a formal paper. This was a onetime mistake that I learned from and caused me to spend more revising the remained of my papers. Throughout my first paper I wrote a lot in passive voice and did not fix the paper before turning it in, luckily, I figured this out by the end of the year and believe that I was able to speak in active voice for almost all of my paper. Additionally, in my multicultural essay, I made revisions where I cropped my conclusion so it was smoother while still bringing up the major points that the paper was about. Comparatively, in my first concluding paragraph I wrote “Hemingway uses symbolism in the form of the setting, alcohol, and white elephants to portray […] Hemingway uses the setting to show […] The alcohol was used in the story to symbolize […] The white elephant was a symbol that” ( 22 January 2018). This is a dreadful example of a closing paragraph, it is choppy and hard to read due to my lack of revision; however, I was able to eliminate many of these issues throughout the