Write about a paper (any paper) you have written in the past. What was your process when writing the paper? (Did you have music playing in the background, did you write the paper the night before, did you outline or just start writing, etc.) What “type” of paper was it? (Creative piece, research paper, lab report, book report, etc.?) What do you feel is the difference between editing and revising?
Last semester, I wrote an 8 page fictional story for my literature class, English 351. My writing style is pretty much the same every time I sit down to write a paper. I put on my music, tune out the world; sometimes I just start writing (like now), other times I have so many ideas that I have to outline them first. For that particular paper, I had thought of an in-depth story so I wrote out a rough outline first, just to decide what I wanted to keep in or out while I was writing. I put on my iTunes and started the story. Usually, short papers (around 3-4 pages) take me about an hour to knock out. Since it was an 8-page paper, I gave myself a full week to get it done. I finished in around 5 or 6 hours throughout that week. When I finished with the first draft, I asked my boyfriend, a creative writing minor, to look over it and edit. When he helps me, he’ll just go over things on my computer so that I don’t have to waste more paper than necessary. After his revision, I then took it to my other English professor who read it and pointed out things another professor would notice. When he was finished, I rewrote the paper on my own and turned it in. Ultimately, I got a B+ on it, and thought I had done a pretty good job.
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