Chapter 8 - One Writer's Process - Exercise

“The College Writer”: Chapter 8 – One Writer’s Process – Exercise

Exercise #1 – Page 119

Review Angela’s writing process. How does it compare with your own writing process on a recent assignment?

At this point, I have only had one essay writing assignment, which was my Self Introduction Essay, so I will base my answer to this question on how I wrote that essay. In writing the Self Introduction Essay I did examine the assignment; figure out the subject, purpose, and audience. I also made a mind map, which assisted me in writing the essay. I feel like when I wrote the essay, I was mostly doing freewriting. The topic was myself, which is an easy topic to write about; it required no research. I organized the essay into five paragraphs: an introduction, past, present and future and a closing. I will admit, I did not do any revisions and I just briefly looked over the finished product for any noticeable errors. After reading these eight chapters, I now understand it takes a lot more to make an essay a finished product to be proud of. I will take all that I have learned here and try to apply it in future essays.