Reflective Essay: Improving My Writing Process

During this time, I’ve been experimenting with small changes in my workflow, my writing process and the types of content I produce. The result has been an improvement in my writing and a better understanding of how I work best. Hopefully, you’ll find some of these things helpful in improving my own writing. Feedback is hugely important for my writing. If I don’t spend long on a piece, I often overlook small typos or grammatical issues. I don’t craft my words quite as carefully as I could, and I tend to repeat myself a bit. Having someone read over my writing can highlight these issues and help me to clean up my work. On the other hand, if I spend a long time on a piece, it can be just as bad. It’s easy to become lost in a piece after a while, and have trouble stepping back and seeing it objectively. It’s also hard to forget all the extra contexts I have in my head by that point and read it as a reader, who has little or no context about the topic. Again, having someone else read my work really helps at this point. If nothing else, it gives me a break to refresh my mind before I come back for more editing. Usually, though, I find my work improves from other people’s suggestions.
The editing process is usually more straightforward, and I’m sure many of you would agree that getting those first few words on paper (or screen) is one of the hardest parts of writing. Procrastination has also been my major drawback in this semester. However, your proper guidance and suggestions have helped me control and limit my level of procrastination. In the beginning of the semester I had only basic knowledge of essay, but after this class I came to know how can writing be a precious tool to student with proper citation skills, grammatical skills, sentence structure as well as proper use of diction and