I think that when I first start writing I have no idea what
direction my paper is going to take. I just start writing my initial ideas and
see where my paper goes. Often, this means that my thesis changes dramatically
when I go back to revise. I still struggle however, with trying to change my
essay as dramatically as I should. I think that often I don’t want to change a
lot in my essay. When we talked in class about how professional writers will
often cut out large chunks of their papers and rewrite them, I realized that I
don’t usually do that.
Typically, what I do when I revise is go back and read the
paper repeatedly and try to find things that I think don’t fit in with the main
idea of the paper. I realize now that maybe I need to be making more drastic
changes in my paper when I revise it.
I like that we have more time to revise our papers because I
like to have a lot of different people look over my papers before I turn them
in. While I’m writing this paper, I’m trying to organize my thoughts in a more
cohesive manner.
I think that what’s changing the most for me as I write is
how much I am actually writing. My paper seems to get longer and longer each
time I look at it.
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