English 1010 DB2 AND DB3

general Instructions:

 For this Discussion Board, each student will need to create ONE NEW THREAD in the Discussion. To create a thread, click on the "Create Thread" button in the bar above, then type your responses to the questions inside the text box that will appear (or you can cut and paste from a Word document).  When you are finished, click "Submit" so that your responses will be saved. In order to encourage original responses, you will not be able to see others’ responses until you post yours.

 Once you have posted your own, original response, you must respond to the post of at least one of your fellow classmates.  To do so, click on the subject of their posting and add your response.  Please remember that everything you post in a discussion board is public, and all students enrolled in the course will be able to view it.

For this post, please answer the following questions. The reading "Shitty First Drafts" in Module 1 provides Anne Lamott's ideas on this topic:

Part 1:

How do you write?  In one paragraph, describe your writing process, step-by-step.

More specifically, what do you do when you're given a writing assignment for class? If a hidden camera recorded everything you did as you worked on a paper, what events would it capture? If you're like me, you begin by procrastinating for as long as you possibly can! Do you freewrite? Outline? Do you do any of the pre-writing strategies that your high school instructors may have told you about? Do you draft with pen and paper, or do you compose at the keyboard? 

Part 2:

In your opinion, do you think the act of writing is linear, whereby one begins essentially with a blank page, starting at the "beginning" and stopping with a completed paper at the end of the process, OR

Is writing a recursive (back-and-forth & circular) process, whereby one writes some, goes back and changes something, writes some more, etc., until "done"? Is it necessary to begin a paper at the beginning? Or can you create body paragraphs and then "collect" them in an introduction and conclusion?

Finally, how do you feel about writing? Do you enjoy the process, or is it always a struggle? Be honest! My goal here is to learn about how you write and what you believe about the writing process.