Writing A Perfect Paper

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The struggle within ones writing Whether one has their Bachelor of Arts in English, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism or their Bachelor of Arts in writing it is impossible for them to write a perfect paper in their first attempt of trying. As we all know writing can be a very frustrating stressful task. In fact our first draft is completely unorganized and almost sound as if a third or fourth grader wrote it. The perfect paper is not written in the first attempt, the perfect paper is written after revising it a good three to four times. Even then it is not a perfect paper. The most successful writers do not write a perfect paper on their first draft, it takes a lot of scribbling and crossing out before one's paper is perfect. "Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing" (Haddon Web). Our first drafts are the worse drafts because we tend to jot down all our ideas and personal perspective on what we are writing about before we tie everything together. Our second drafts are not as sloppy but there is still major mistakes that need to be fix. As well as punctuation errors, improper grammar and misspelled words. Our final draft is the best one, after revising it changing things around and getting rid of clutter our final draft is now improved. …show more content…

That is why the process of editing ones second draft is necessary, one must read their own work to themselves in order to catch their mistakes. Writing is a difficult task to grasp, one must be grammatical correct. One must make sure that their writing make since and is not non sense thrown on a piece of paper. “Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming”. (Johnson Web). Writing is time consuming one must be dedicated and willing to put a lot of time into their

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