Reflect on the overall significance and effectiveness of your writing process. What have you learned about your writing process through being forced to think about it in such detail?

Assignment

For this essay, you will consider how the writing process applies to your own writing experiences. You will write a process analysis describing your own writing process—as it actually is now, not what you think it should be. You will also evaluate what has been effective and/or ineffective about your writing process.

Specifics

• Your essay should be two typed pages (around 600 words).
• Use the standard MLA format (see the CCA directions) for your essay.
• Include an original, compelling title (not Essay 1 or Process Analysis).
• Review the rubric (Criteria for Evaluating an Essay) as you draft and edit your paper.
• Upload your final Microsoft Word document to the Essay 1 Submission link on Moodle.

Organization

Introduction: Begin with an attention-grabbing hook that leads into the thesis statement (which should arrive in the last sentence of the introduction). The thesis should 1) make an important observation about your writing process and 2) explain the implication of that observation (i.e., answer the “So what?”).

Body: Should be divided into three (or so) paragraphs, such as:

1) what you do before you write
2) what you do while you write
3) what you do after you write

Support the topic sentence argument of each body paragraph with specific examples from your writing experiences.

Conclusion: Reflect on the overall significance and effectiveness of your writing process. What have you learned about your writing process through being forced to think about it in such detail?

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