Writing Strategies
Prompt: Discuss whether or not you are practicing the writing process that the authors of our textbook suggest. Why or why haven’t you used their writing process? Describe your writing process if it differs from the one suggested in From Inquiry to Academic Writing.
While I do try to keep the authors style of writng in mind, I usually just go my own way and try to do my own thing. I do refer back to the book a lot to be sure that I am staying on track with them a little bit, but for the most part I just go my own direction. I feel as if it is more important to study the requirements that the instructor gives us and focus more on what she wants out of me rather than the book. The book offers a lot of important information, but in the long run we have to accomplish these papers by doing what the instructor asks. My writing process does, though, follow what the book suggests as far as prewriting, developing a thesis, etc., so I feel like I am keeping up with the text pretty well anyway.