My Writing Process

My Writing Process

Each individual has their own personal writing process. Whether a person plans out every single detail of their work or writes each word as it comes into their head, there are various writing processes that work for various people.

1.  I consider myself to be a heavy planner because I am not a big fan in revising. Because of this I want my first draft to be very strong so I won't have to heavily edit my papers. I will map out all of my ideas and the information or sources will be established before I began while maybe adding a source or two and editing out what I wrote too quick. Even though I heavily plan my outline, I will write the rest as it comes.

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2.  My process really only incorporates the heavy planner style. But I will go back through my    papers, locating weak word choice and replacing those weak words with stronger words or rearranging the sentence so I won't have weak words. I also make sure all my grammar is correct.

3.  I have been successful in the past with this writing process. It strengths include that I don't find myself struggling to find more to add and that I know what direction I am going to take the paper from the very beginning. One weakness of this process is that I often make a lot of mistakes that I need to fix which requires time to make right.

4.  I think I could be beneficial to try the heavy reviser process as I think that I could learn how to be a better reviser in the process. It would not benefit me to try the writing process of procrastinating because that would be very stressful and I prefer to get my work started early so I have time to perfect it. 

Reflection:
As I read both Chloe's blog and Ann's blog I discovered my writing style is similar to both of theirs. I related to Chloe is that while I am a heavy planner I tend to write as I go. She also stated that she thought it would be beneficial to try the heavy revision approach which I definitely feel the same way about. Ann and I share the same writing style of being heavy planner. She said that she struggles with writing when she doesn't have efficient time to plan which I completely agree with. Lucky for her she said that she is able to revise her planned drafts which is an area I struggle in.