When I was in high school my writing process was writing one draft the night before the paper was due and turning it in as a final draft. The only pre-writing strategy I had was making a flow chart to show what I wanted my thesis to be, planning out my body paragraphs with supporting evidence, and writing my conclusion. During high school we never had annotations to go off of because most of our papers were based on research. More often than not, I would just start writing as soon as I had an idea of what I wanted to say. In my high school classes we had little to no peer review so I mostly just re-read my paper aloud to myself and fixed my mistakes as I went. In English 110 was when I first started to edit others papers and receive feedback from my classmates. I was excited to finally let others read my oar because I never felt confident in my writing when it was just me who read over my paper. Specifically Professor Spain’s comments were the ones I focused on the most. Obviously this was because she was the teacher and also an accomplished writer who has a lot of insight and new ideas to bring to each of my papers. Receiving feedback from me peers also helped me a lot with the recursive process because we each have a different mindset on the content of the paper which helped me come up with new ideas. The global challenge that I found most challenging was writing a good introduction and concluding paragraph. Throughout all my years of writing this has been something that I have struggled with the most. In our last essay about climate change, both Professor Spain and my classmate wrote comments on how I could make my introduction and conclusion stronger. My final draft of the climate change essay, I think that I showed great improvements on this specific challenge by using their comments and suggestions to make two strong paragraphs. The local challenge that I found most challenging was comma splices. In most of my papers this was what I got comments about the most. The thing that I focused on the most in this last essay was my global challenge. After doing the recursive process throughout this essay I was able to make a better and more meaningful paper.
