Improving My Writing Process

The process shows that we need to “Demonstrate thorough engagement with the iterative processes of reading, writing, and speaking” (Winek). In this course we had a process for writing, which includes prewriting, drafting, editing, and integrating feedback. These steps made it less complicated to complete my essays.

Throughout the whole semester, the variety of processes helped me better my writing. When I first began writing each of my essays, I would do research that related to the topic I had chosen. I would read through the article I had chosen to see if it had enough evidence to support my topic. Once I was done with all my research it became less complicated for me to begin my essay. Even though I had my ideas on how to write the essay,

it was troubling because I didn't know how to put all the ideas together to make sense. The process I found challenging throughout the semester was when I had to finalize my essay to turnitin. Another thing that was kind of challenging for me was sentence structure in my essays because some of my sentences were run on. The essay I believe I had trouble on starting was the definition essay because I was overthinking it. I wasn't quite sure what was expected, so when I attended office hours it became clear to me and I laughed because it was so simple. The writing process became easier when doing an essay after essay, of course, what was complicated at first for me was doing the research. From the conference feedback forms and revision forms when filling them out made me realize what I needed to do and improve on. Writing my own definition in the journals I had to think how I was going to define them. So those journal entries helped me understand a bit more before starting my definition essay. Writing those two journals expanded my way of thinking and on how words or things can have different meanings.
Writing essays have always been my weakness, but after this semester I believe I have improved in my writing and reading skills. Following the processes made it easier to complete the tasks. The research, reading and writing and following the steps for each one made it clear on how to do the work.