Excercise 4.m

Writing has always been my greatest challenge in the years of my schooling. It took 4 years of hardcore high school english classes to finally get the backbone of grammar down, and the process of writing a large research paper. Senior year in high school in AP English is when I finally figured out my writing process that would help me get through one of the toughest classes I have ever taken. It all starts with the topic. I generally sit at my desk with my computer in front of me and begin to write my Introductory paragraph on the fly, thinking and writing my ideas in sentance form as they come into my head. In order for me to write well I need to not have distractions, which makes writing on the computer a very bad habit for me. Once I have a couple ideas in my head about where I want to go with my topic and I have some ideas written in the form of a paragraph, it makes me feel very comfortable just seeing words on the screen. I now rewrite my introductory paragraph to form my thesis which I like to follow throughout the rest of my paper and keep essay in some kind of order in my head. Once I have my introductory paragraph and my thesis down, it becomes smooth sailing for me because my body paragraphs are always my strongest sections of the essay. Once I hit the conclusion though my brain goes into overdrive thinking how I am going to finish it off without taking the easy way out by just restating what was in the paper. Usually I like giving the conclusion a twist but if I am tired then I generally take the easy way out on it, and unfortunately for me it ends up being sub par compared to the rest of my paper. Now for the revising process, I generally give my papers up to my father who was the editor of the Collegiate Times here at Virginia Tech in his time and knows the ins and outs of editing a paper. After he is finished with it though I generally go back and correct the mistakes and the suggestions he made and look it over once more. Workshopping has never really been introduced to me until now, but I feel like it would not only help me help others in their papers but by looking at another person's paper and making corrections it would help my mind gather more information about writing and will help me make fewer mistakes in the future.