Tuesday, September 4, 2007
What I would do if I was asked to write an essay is I would first think about the topic of the essay I was asked to write. I would start to group ideas in my head about the essay and form an outline and once I looked over the outline I would begin on a first draft by forming an appropriate introduction for the essay. Once I wrote an introduction I would move on the body paragraphs, my personal style I use if there is no specific length is that I write three body paragraphs and move on to the conclusion. For my first draft I like to use paper and pen before moving on to the computer. I then read over the rough draft and make any corrections, after I finish reading over the rough draft I try to give the paper to another person to see if they understand it and catch some of the mistakes I made while reading over the rough draft. Once I make sure the paper is good with out and stupid grammar mistakes I start on the final draft, and once again I read the paper over make any necessary corrections that I catch. I also like to give my final copy to someone to read over and help find any other mistakes I made. Then I look over to see if what I wrote is appropriate for the audience that will be reading my essay I just wrote. A great example of where I used this style was when I was writing my college application essays I made sure that I had no mistakes and that it was completely legible for anybody reading the essay. I had three English teachers in my school read my essay to make sure the essay was very good.
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I really like the paper & pen method before typing. Sadly, I don't use it often enough. It's important to make sure you spend more time on the conceptual ideas in the paper too, beyond just the grammatical mistakes. It is often the grammar that people latch on to first and say "OH LOOK HE MADE A MISTAKE THERE!", but really conceptual simplicity is a graver error, I think.
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