Revisiting my Writing Process

Wang, Nicholas. "very_cute_puppy_01." 29/5/2007 via flickr. Creative Commons.

In this blog post I will be reflecting my writing process in the beginning of the year and how it had evolved over the semester. I will also look at how I wanted my writing process to become and if I met up to my own goals or not.

In blog post 1.10, it seemed that I classified myself as more of a heavy revisor where I did very little planning, would write a rough draft and just make a lot of changes into what I perceived to be my final draft. My goal was that maybe I would include more pre planning in my process of writing. By doing this, my draft would be more of what I want out of my final copy without the need to make so many revisions or even end up rewriting it. 

I would have to say that I have made improvements in my writing process to help meet my goal. I have been doing an outline of the points that I want to cover in my written work, no matter what it was, and I believe that it has helped with my draft work.  With the outline, I know exactly what points I want to make and what the most efficient way to make that point is. But even with this outline process, I still have to make a lot of revisions on the drafts. I think this can be because once I continue to reread what I write, I end up not liking what I initially write. 

Pertaining to my schedule analysis, one of the points I wanted to work on was spacing out the time I work on my blogging and project assignments. I did not do this very well. I tried to make sure that I worked on some blogging throughout the week, but the assignments that were due the next day always took priority to the blogging that was due Saturday evening. So I then I always tended to work on the blogging on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I still believe that it is good to space out your time to be more efficient so that you are not cramming to get it all done at once. But making that a reality has been hard. 

In the future, I want to continue to work on my time management. In improving this, I can start by writing down more of what I have to do and really analyzing how much time I have each day to do homework in a realistic manner. What I didn't do has much was organize my English homework around the homework for my other classes. But at the time, I also was not aware at what other homework I had for my other classes. This means that my homework schedule will have to be modified as the year progresses. This is something that I can work on for my next semester schedule. I can use my planner more as well. This can have me make sure I am getting everything I need to done not just for the evening, but by being able to get ahead as well.

In the next 3 or so years of college I will continue to find new strategies that will help improve my time management. There will be some trial and error, but the best thing right now is that I would consider myself more of a planner as well as a revisor with my writing. I know what kinds of information I need to find out before even thinking about what I need to write. With a clearer goal in mind of where I want to get with my paper, I can better clean up my writing.