Response #6

Sean Demme

9.12.2012

English 1510

Berkenkotter and Murray

QDJ

#1 Murrays writing process I think is very effective –he is organized and it works for him. My writing process on the other hand isn’t really one at all. My process consists of not planning until the last minute and then vigorously typing something, sitting though my brainstorming and typing at the same time. This worked actually very well for me in high school and I can’t say that it will be the same in college. Bottom line is – I don’t know my writing process.

#3 He found that different things work for different people in different situations. It’s different for most people –you sort of have to find out what works for you. Berkenkotter took away from his studies just that – the process of developing one’s own writing process is a process within itself …process …process. blah.

AEI

#1 I tend to find myself revising all of the time – I like to go back and change the way I say certain things. To me, some parts of what I have to say are very important and I’d like for it to sound like, when I say these things, that I know how to say them.  I like to know that even if somebody else finds a writing that I do horrific I can still find it a good piece. I take pride in my writings and self-revision takes a decent spot on my priority level when I write. Reread and rethink – I guess that’s kind of my own writing process.

META MOMENT!

One thing that I learned from these readings is that you need to A) keep your audience entertained and B) trust yourself in your writing. A boring paper is like onion flavored starbursts – NOBODY wants it, there’s no point. Trusting myself is something I often forget to do when I am writing. These two authors reminded me that a great paper is inside of me – I just have to struggle to get it out and on my paper. Writing doesn’t suck, the writing process does.