My Writing Process

Wiertz, Sebastien. "From Chaos to Order" 10/13/13 via flickr. Attribution.

1. I consider myself to be a little bit of everything, I can sometimes be somewhat of a chaotic writer. I do feel like I have heavy planning, heavy revising, sequential composer and procrastinating tendencies; it really depends on the subject matter of my paper.

2. My writing does include some of the approaches mentioned in this student guide. In the heavy planning section, I can identify with this section because there has been times in which I feel like I have created my whole paper in my head and all there is really left to do it just write it. But I feel like I identify more with the heavy reviser section because more often than not, I start off a project by just writing absolutely everything that comes to mind. It is through this process in which I plan how to set up my paper and what I keep and delete. As for being a sequential composer, I feel like I can relate to this style because I do have the habit of taking extensive notes and making things such a timelines and webs to help my writing process. Lastly, I have the horrible habit of also leaving work to the very last minute. I do feel like I work well under pressure and have managed to get good grades with this approach, but this approach always leaves me feeling drained and with the feeling to never procrastinate again. Yet it still manages to creep up on me sometimes. In the end, my approach really depend on what I am working on.

3. I feel like my writing processes work for me. The approach that is probably the least successful for me is when I procrastinate. Thats mostly because I always end up feeling like I could have done better or more, but I didn't give myself enough time to actually work. Other than that I feel like the approaches that I take have worked for me so far in my life.

4. Honestly, I don't think that it would. I feel like I really need to stop procrastinating but other than that I feel like the approaches that I take while tackling a new paper have been very successful for me and I wouldn't want to change them.