Assessing the writing situation & Writing the paper.

"Writing is easy, all you do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." -Red Smith

 When I am writing I have a hard time staying organized, getting my point across, and making sense of what I'm writing. I found the analogy of the clay pot interesting, it helped me think of writing as more of a process. Everyone has their own style of writing so it's okay to be different; but your writing still need to be correct and most importantly, make sense to your audience. 

 When writing a paper on a specific topic or subject, that topic can be so broad that it can cause you to write an ongoing paper or even a book. When writing on a specific topic if you are asking yourself specific questions within that topic, then you have more of a clear vision for your paper and what you are writing about. This creates more structure in your paper and more interest as well.

A lot of times when I write I find it difficult to "define a purpose" in my writing. My brain can be all over the place so my writing is all over the place. Having a specific purpose helps you communicate better and helps you achieve a goal. 

Writing a thesis statement before starting a paper helps to capture your idea of what your paper is going to look like. The thesis statement needs to be just long enough so that the teacher or audience reading your paper can get an idea of the key elements of your paper and what it's going to be about.

It is important to create structure in your paper that you are writing so it is clean and neat and you are easily getting your point across. Developing ideas and supports for the ideas helps to map out how you paper is going to look.  Creating an  "outline"/structure will help me have a more organized paper, since I tend to be a little bit all over the place, this will help me stay organized.

Creating an outline will help the writer stay organized, shape their paper, discover problems and show you what may need to be changed/tweaked. I always create an outline when writing a paper to keep myself more organized since I tend to be an "all over the place" type of writer.

I feel that editing is one of the most important parts of finishing a paper. You not only want your paper to be neatly written but you need your grammar and punctuation to be correct as well. I find that when I go back and edit papers  I can have a lot of punctuation errors because when I get into writing sometimes I forget to use correct punctuation. I also find it is easier to read a paper out loud to yourself or others to make sure it sounds as good as it does in your head.