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Sierra Irizarry
Professor C. Pierson
ENC 1101
6 October 2017
you are writing. Whether its personal, business or educational, and the process of writing each
varies on the person and type of writing or style that is being written. For the most part, the
process of writing can be broken down into three basic steps that are mutual between all types of
writing: preparing, writing, & revising/editing. The various phases of a writing process such
as planning, drafting, reading, and revising blend together and may not go in that order
(WBW P. 708).
Typically, before you start writing normally you make a plan. Dotting down all your
ideas and thoughts that you would like to be included in your piece of literature. This is normally
where you would pull out evidence and sources to prove your argument or to use as support in
your writing. The planning part of writing can be interchangeable with incubation the actual
thinking process a short period of incubation was followed by a period of intense and highly
concentrated planning when Murray realized the direction he wanted the article to take
(Berkenkotter pg. 137). Personally, when I write I skip the planning step and just start writing
right away, I spend approximatively twenty minutes in the incubation phase thinking about what
Im going to write depending on the topic and evidence given to support or argue said topic, and
After planning comes the actual writing process itself, when I write Im used to writing
essays for school. Whether it be argumentative, persuasive, a narrator or analytical. I set the
paper up into five paragraphs; The introduction, three body paragraphs, and the conclusion. The
body paragraphs usually are based off the prompt and the topic assigned. I normally would pick
three main points from the passage that came with the prompt along with quotes to prove the
points I will be discussing in my body paragraphs to support or argue the claim that is being
made. However, now taking this ENC 1101 class the writing structure for my papers have
change drastically. When writing now there is now passage that you base your writing off of. Of
course, like any writing there is a prompt/topic and a rubric to follow but you are mostly pulling
evidence and support from outside sources you get yourself from the online school library,
autoethnography was the most diverse piece of writing Ive written. It being personal and a self-
reflection I was not use to especially since Im so used to writing in such a structured way.
Timed, 40 minutes must be five paragraphs, with three points to make and 2-3 pieces of evidence
for each point followed by commentary all written in a quiet classroom setting. It gave you no
time to think or give you the freedom or comfort in writing in a way you prefer. Myself as a
writer takes me a long time to be able to really sit down concentrate and get my piece of work
done. I get distracted really easy, English has always been my hardest subject specially when it
comes to writing essays because I never know where to begin and what to say to make the essay
flow smoothly. So, I normally try to write as much as I can and then end up watching T.V. or on
FaceTime and give up. Then Ill try again the next day to add on and fall into distractions again
and normally the due date of the paper is when I really buckle down whether its the night before
the due date because its due in the morning or if its late at night a few hours before it must be
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turned in. Its not that I dont have the time to write the paper I just dont have the motivation
within me, funny because youd think if its for a grade that would-be motivation enough. I write
best when I have a friend over if Im alone I want to fiddle with my phone, eat, clean do anything
to avoid the paper. But if I have a friend here with me and I see them working on homework too
threaten to take my phone from me. Im extrinsically motivated when it comes to homework,
Extrinsic motivation deals with motivations that are outside of your passions, and personal self-
esteem (Ryan), oppose to intrinsically motivated Intrinsic motivation is the opposite. You
get paid for doing what you truly enjoy doing (Ryan). I need clear deadlines and encouragement
from other people as motivation. And I get to spend time with my friends and also do homework
when Im writing next to them. I cant just work hard because something in myself motivates me
to do so like Intrinsically motivated people. As well as my friends, lots of music helps but
nothing too upbeat because then I want to dance or sing and that becomes a whole other
The actual writing process is the challenge for me but the editing and revising part is
easier. Which is the last part to the three-part writing process, editing and revising. Although the
two share similarities they are two very different things. When revising you must look at the
piece of writing as a whole in a big picture concept. While revising you may perform bigger
operations like reorganizing, rewriting, or even deleting a paragraph or an entire section of the
document (Richardson, 2017). Editing on the other hand is a smaller picture its the last-minute
fixes to minor errors in details. When editing you go through sentence by sentence to rephrase a
sentence, swap out words, or add, remove, or change punition (Richardson, 2017). When its
time for me to revise and edit my paper I use the spelling and grammar check first and once it
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goes through and fixes any errors, I go through and read my paper out loud to see if I wrote
things that didnt quite make sense, or to make sure I didnt go off topic anywhere. Sometimes
when Im talking to someone and typing I start to type what Im saying so I have to go through
The writing process is the series of actions taken by writers to produce a finished work.
Writers, educators, and theorists have defined the writing process in many different ways, but it
generally involves prewriting tasks, writing tasks, and post-writing tasks. More specifically,
these tasks include planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, in approximately that
order (Dziak, 2016) may work for some people but it may also be to structure for others. It
obviously is an effective process if its being taught to university students and written into
textbooks, but for writers with abstract thoughts or work ethic processes this writing process may
not work for them. For me, personally sticking to this writing process might be more beneficial
to my writing, if I spent more time in the incubation phase and planning maybe I wont have
writers block during the actual writing process itself because I will already have my thoughts
planned out and laid out for me to know what I want to say, as well as pulling quotes or citations
ahead of time that can be used in my writing. What you believe about writing directly impacts
what you do or are willing to do (WAW p.5) or maybe the writers block comes from being
forced into having to write with the topic picked for me, something not of my interest. Oppose to
for example, poetry theres no rules, regulations or constraints in poetry. You are free to write
what you want, how you want to, and in any form of way you would like.
Citation Page
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Berkenkotter C. (1983). Decisions and revisions: The planning strategies of a publishing writer.
In E. Wardle and D. Downs (eds.). Writing about Writing: A college reader (pp. 830-
Dziak, M. (2016). Writing Process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing). Salem
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Murray, D. Process: How Are Texts Composed? In E. Wardle and D. Downs (eds.). Writing
Richardson, Adele. Revision. UCF Writes Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Fountainhead
Ryan, J. (n.d.). The Difference Between Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation. Retrieved October
http://www.academia.edu/1323999/The_Difference_Between_Extrinsic_and_Intrinsic_M
otivation
Wardle and D. Downs (eds.). Writing about Writing: A college reader (pp. 5). Boston:
Bedford/St. Martins