Blog #3: Project #3 Writing Process

For project #3, I employed more pre-writing techniques than I previously had used. I didn't have a hard time picking the social issue of America's need for universal heath care. The next step was to brainstorm a list of words and ideas that came to my mind thinking about the subject. After reviewing my brainstorm list, I free-wrote for 7 minutes without stopping. I found this exercise to be really helpful and a lot of the ideas I wrote down ended up in my actual draft. This free-writing exercise also gave me the basis for my focus statement. I found this paper easier to write than my other papers. I think this is partially because I care a lot about the subject but also a large part can be attributed to all the pre-writing I did.

Once I had all my thoughts in order and I decided on my focus statement, I had to find all my research sources. Then I composed my first draft, which was pretty sloppy because I didn't have much time to write it. In class, we did peer reviews and the comments that my reviewer left were helpful for me in organizing my paper format better. The comments also helped me to better develop my focus statement.

After I finished my second draft, I looked over the sheet that Ms. LoFaro gave us about common grammar problems. I did my best to throughly revise my paper using the grammar guidelines. I made sure that . I decided to elaborate on a couple of points that I hadn't fully explained in my prior drafts as well. My weakness for this paper was the annotated bibliography because I had a total of eight different sources. Some of the sources that I used were simple fact sheets that didn't have a ton of information so I had a hard time writing a through annotation of them.

Overall, I am very proud of my work on this final project. I think that my writing has evolved for the better, over the course of this class. I hope to use all of the knowledge that I gained from this course when I need to write papers in the future. I appreciate all of help and insight that Ms. LoFaro offered over the semester. I do not think I used to be a good writer, but I truly believe that I have grown as a writer and I feel much more confident about any future writing assignments I have.