Reflective Essay On My Writing Process

There are many different ways of writing, and many different processes one could take to create the perfect piece of writing. Over my many years of writing essays and attempting to find my voice I have discovered and tested many different processes. Throughout this quarter I have been exposed to a new writing process, and in exploring this process I have managed to find my own voice and style of writing. Traditionally, I would spit something out on my paper and beat it until it appeared perfect, this process would typically result in a late assignment and a low grade. Using my old writing styles I had a overwhelming and unclear tone, due to the fact that my processes provided no structure to my essays. After discovering the writing process

In supporting my thesis with evidence, I am able to show how strongly I feel about my topic while keeping my points clear with the evidence I choose to provide. I discovered the benefits that came along with this step when I was writing about short essays throughout this course. Reading these essays and then responding to them with a strong tone along with not getting carried away from my main points was definitely a challenge. Although by incorporating another stage of the writing process I was able to revise and edit all the unnecessary parts where my tone became a little too strong. I find a strong tone necessary when i 'm writing, I think it puts more of myself into my essays because i 'm diving below the surface to really internalize things in order to create a stronger tone. I find that if I understand something I will have some sort of feelings towards it, and if I have some sort of feelings towards it then I need to express that in a strong tone other wise my voice may not be heard. I choose specific topics that I feel passionately towards to write about because I find it easier to bring out a strong tone, I think this could relate to what Donald Murray said in his article “All Writing is Autobiography” where he says “I seek understanding and hope for a compassion that has not yet arrived.” when I

There is a thin line for me between a strong and passionate tone. In my eyes a strong tone is when I feel very heavily towards something and a passionate tone is when I feel very deeply about something, and the tone is just how I use those feelings to create a meaning in an essay. By having a strong and concise tone throughout my essay I am able to incorporate some passion into my final essay, by having the small bit of passion I am able to bind a small bit of myself into each paper I write. I 've always been drawn to writing so by having an organized way to tuck myself into it I find that overly exciting. I find that the passionate tone is best incorporated into the final draft and revising stage because then I am able to put meaning where I found there wasn 't enough in my essay. I most commonly used this strategy in essay 1 and 2 when I wrote about very personal