My Writing Process Analysis

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The writing process has always been a constant struggle of mine throughout high school. I was never taught the process well enough to get better at it. Writing essays wasn’t a common task to do at my school. I have been working on my writing and this chapter helped me realize what I need to work on during this class and be aware of. A quote that resonated with me was, “For the writing process, however, editing means highly focused attention to specific words or phrases or to the structure of a sentence.” Editing has always been a major problem of mine. I try my best to edit the paper I wrote, but somehow I always miss some of the sentences or phrases that should have been edited. Last year was the first year that a teacher harped on grammar, but it was so late in the year that it was hard to make the adjustments in a short period of time. Bad habits are hard to break and I am still trying to break them. My grammar skills are not as advanced as they should be, so in this class that is going to be one of my major focus …show more content…

Another quote that caught my attention was, “In the same study of revision strategies, Nancy Sommers found that college freshmen planned to make the first drafts of their papers the last, and they did not tend to use the terms revision or rewriting to describe changes they made. Instead, they mentioned minor corrections and deletions they made while reviewing their work.” This quote describes me perfectly; I do plan to make the first draft of my paper the last. I don’t know if I have ever totally rewritten an essay after reviewing it. This quote made me realize that I might have to rewrite a paper after I revise it. I have never used the terms revising or rewriting while summarizing my process of writing an essay or a paper. In college, I am going to do both of those steps because I want to produce the best writing that I

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