Understanding Individuality in The writing process
Writing a paper on the writing process is pretty hard. The writing process is different from one person to another. You come across questions like, “What exactly is the writing process?” and “Must you follow one persons writing process if yours is different?” This is where I came across the answer to my questions, write however you wish to write. If one person likes free write first and another person likes to write a draft first, let them do how they please. The writing process is something that you figure out yourself as you go through school. I personally think that is why they make us take English for so many years. Through the years, I found that some teachers forced you to write certain ways. I believe that this keeps the student from expressing their true feelings about the topic. They end up thinking more about how much they hate the assignment or the teacher. I do agree that you must teach the students how to write. That is where the English textbooks come into play. There, they can expand the student’s mind with new ideas. Whether or not they decide to use them is up to the individual. In Elbow’s writing, he says, “The most effective way I know to improve your writing is to do free writing exercises regularly” (Elbow 62). Because I am not one to write in a journal everyday, I cannot personally agree or disagree with his comment. I do believe that the more you write, the better you become. I do see that people who write often also do better in their English classes. Elbow also says, “The main thing is that a freewriting must never be evaluated in any way; in fact there must be no discussion at all” (Elbow 63). I don’t agree with him. The only way for someone to improve his or her writing is if a peer reads over it and explains what could be done to improve it. In The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript, Murray says, “Writers must learn to be their own worst