Blog 6

Name: Ali Al Beadhany

Class: English 110 C

Date: 9-22-19

First Draft Comparisons

I think that the way that I wrote my paper’s drafts are very similar to how Anne Lamott describes the writing process of her first drafts. Lamont said that when she starts writing her first drafts is it only her fingers moving. This is how I wrote mine because I know that later on I will have to go back and make changes. Being able to write a lot then go back and pick and choose the bits and pieces that are the best is a lot more effective than trying to write a perfect paper for the first time. Free writing a first draft allows me to put all of my thoughts down on paper so when I go back to it it may not be coherent or fully finished but I can reorganize it all to make it into a final draft. This essay surprised me because I did not know that other people used this method when they were writing.

Revision Strategy Plan:

My goal is to write an essay that can get the point across within 1200 to 1500 words. To make this goal I have to first write a first draft. Afterwards the first draft will be organized to make the flow of the essay smooth. After organizing the essay any questions that were missed in the first draft will then be addressed and the previous paragraphs will be improved grammatically. If I run into any troubles my first step will be to have someone else look at my paper to see if they have any suggestions that would help me get through the problem. The biggest problem that I think I will face will probably be making all of the paragraphs flow and to fix that I will have other people read the paper and see which paragraphs would make sense where. Another problem that I can see having in the essay is repetition in the speech that I use. The solution to this problem is that after writing a draft I want to go through and replace my commonly used phrases with other words to make the paper more interesting and to have the flow better. If I do not have enough phrases than I will go to dictionairy.com to see synonyms of the words that I had been using so I can add variation.