Description Of My Writing Process
I have written many essays and have tried different writing processes. I have been writing essays since I was Primary 3 in Singapore which means around 8 years ago. I used to get good grades for my composition (as it was called in Primary School in Singapore) but it degenerates as I went to Secondary School.
I mainly write Narrative essay and ususally get okay marks for it while my argumentative esssay is kinda... I know I am probably not suppose to say it, but, it generally suck. Argumentative is my weakest section in essay writing and i avoid it as best as i could.
I usually write my essays straight from the brain to my hands and I just write and the story develops inside me. Many teachers encourage students to brainstorm for ideas, outline the plot, etc to make the story interesting and the climax to be at the appropriate time. However, i think that that is not very correct. My style of writing is to follow the story and develop it as you write. This allows me to at some point of time to twist the plot and get an unexpected ending which cannot be done if you had outline the whole story before hand.
The problem i have with this style is that sometime i may ran out of idea before the story ends or half way through the story, I realize that the ending will be so unrealistic that my essay would be fit only for kids to read and is most likely unacceptable to the teachers or other adult who will grade it.
Another problem is that sometime I write a little too much... ok sometime more that a little. There was once where if i had continued my writing, it will sum up to be more than a thousand when the number of words allowed was 350-550 words. From what i heard from my teacher, this is very dangerous as most of the markers in Cambridge University, they tend to dislike very long essays and either they pinnalize you or worse, when your essay reaches that word limit, they will just cross out the rest of the essay and not even take a look at it. The problem with this is that the part that they canceled out may have been the climax to the narrative or the most important argument in an argumentative.
My style of writing have lots of problem that comes with it, other than the grammar mistakes that i will make, I generally gets exicted as the story develops and my hand writing becomes more and more messy and unreadable. I got scolded by my teacher most of the time as they were unable to read my handwriting.
No matter what, I think that I will still use my style of writing as I feel that a writer should pour their heart and soul into their writing. Only by this way, a writer would really be satisfied that the story that they ended with truly comes from the heart, his heart. The other possible styles, sometime limits your writing and causes the story line to sometime end early or just don't connect with the whole plot.
I mainly write Narrative essay and ususally get okay marks for it while my argumentative esssay is kinda... I know I am probably not suppose to say it, but, it generally suck. Argumentative is my weakest section in essay writing and i avoid it as best as i could.
I usually write my essays straight from the brain to my hands and I just write and the story develops inside me. Many teachers encourage students to brainstorm for ideas, outline the plot, etc to make the story interesting and the climax to be at the appropriate time. However, i think that that is not very correct. My style of writing is to follow the story and develop it as you write. This allows me to at some point of time to twist the plot and get an unexpected ending which cannot be done if you had outline the whole story before hand.
The problem i have with this style is that sometime i may ran out of idea before the story ends or half way through the story, I realize that the ending will be so unrealistic that my essay would be fit only for kids to read and is most likely unacceptable to the teachers or other adult who will grade it.
Another problem is that sometime I write a little too much... ok sometime more that a little. There was once where if i had continued my writing, it will sum up to be more than a thousand when the number of words allowed was 350-550 words. From what i heard from my teacher, this is very dangerous as most of the markers in Cambridge University, they tend to dislike very long essays and either they pinnalize you or worse, when your essay reaches that word limit, they will just cross out the rest of the essay and not even take a look at it. The problem with this is that the part that they canceled out may have been the climax to the narrative or the most important argument in an argumentative.
My style of writing have lots of problem that comes with it, other than the grammar mistakes that i will make, I generally gets exicted as the story develops and my hand writing becomes more and more messy and unreadable. I got scolded by my teacher most of the time as they were unable to read my handwriting.
No matter what, I think that I will still use my style of writing as I feel that a writer should pour their heart and soul into their writing. Only by this way, a writer would really be satisfied that the story that they ended with truly comes from the heart, his heart. The other possible styles, sometime limits your writing and causes the story line to sometime end early or just don't connect with the whole plot.
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