Revisiting my Writing Process

In this blog post, I will reflect on how my writing process and time management skills have evolved over the course of this class.

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Towards the beginning of this course, I self identified myself as a sequential composer, who spent equal amounts of time on planning, drafting, and revising. However, I also mentioned that my writing process really varied depending on the type of writing I was doing. Throughout this course, I have realized that I do mostly resemble a sequential composer; however, I have come to implement more of the heavy reviser's techniques as well. I usually spend roughly equal amounts of time on each part of the writing process, but my revising process has become much more thorough after conducting all of the peer review and other process work that goes into this step of the writing process.

With regards to time management, my initial goal was to use all of the small bits of time in between classes to catch up on any work for this class and other classes. I did end up implementing this strategy quite a bit, but I also ended up completing quite a bit of my work in large stretches of time that I set aside throughout the week. For instance, I found that I was more productive when I set aside a few hours on Fridays to do homework, rather than finding a couple hours between classes to do homework.

By reflecting on my writing process and time management skills, I have realized that my work habits really do depend on the type of situation I'm in. However, I have noticed that the writing process of the sequential composer does work best for me, and this is a strategy that I hope to carry with me in future courses. Time management really does depend on my workload each week, but overall, scheduling my time so that I have large blocks of time to work on homework usually works best for me. Overall, this has shown me that I do require some type of planning ahead, both with my writing and with other work. I did not procrastinate quite as much as I thought I would, so this shows me that I will (hopefully) not leave things until the last minute in the future.