#I HATE writing in third personnnn!!!!!!! I don't want nothin' to do with pronouns >:(

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A writer is a reader foremost: essay 2

Paragraph One: Before you read the essay, spend time reflecting on your writing process. Just as you did in board two, imagine that you’ve been given a writing assignment. Describe yourself in third person doing the writing and try to write it as a scene.

S sits frowning in a chair somewhere - a library table, recliner in the den, kitchen counter, or desk in their room, it's irrelevant - feeling sorry for themself, and wishing that 'illiterate peasant' was still a career option. They pout while the computer starts up, grumble as they open a document, and glare at the empty screen. After re-reading the prompt a few dozen times, they open Google to do research, and leech off of other people's opinions. They look up variations of the same question for what feels like years and become well acquainted with the Wikipedia page on the subject. Only after finding things that seem important do they make a bullet list of things they want to address. Then, they move them around until they're almost an argument. They make a lot of subpoints, and sketch out most of the body paragraphs with shorthand and expletives. After that, they cry, because they don't like making theses. They follow the dumb the author uses x, y, and z for abc purpose format, and make an intro paragraph around it through some miracle of extremely long sentences and over-explaining things. They then go through the bullet points and make them into full sentences, stopping for snacks or a YouTube video in the middle. At this point they've lost any semblance of care for the quality of the assignment, so they bs a conclusion paragraph, and they do not proofread anything. On a long essay, this process would take place over days, interspersed with lots of complaining to family and friends.

Jot down a few sentences about how you think you might improve your writing process.

If I could somehow get to the not giving a crap phase sooner, maybe I wouldn't use so much energy and it wouldn't take so long to convince myself to start. Also, it would be nice if I had a process that I followed intentionally, because I do not, so I end up doing bits as I feel like it, and not managing time well.

Paragraph Two: Read the Attached Essay, “Writing an Essay: Here are Ten Effective Tips” by Joe Bunting found on the Welcome Page and the in the Content for week one. Pick two ideas in the short essay that you think are the most important. How will these concepts help you going forward as a college student facing writing assignments?

I think that the most important idea that I'm taking away from this is that I need to focus on making it fun, or finding parts that interest me. I definitely go into a writing assignment assuming that I'll hate it, so it's really helpful to treat my brain like a toddler and make it as fun as possible. I hope that the trick of forcing the topic to be interesting by focusing on cool parts works, because it's funny to make my brain do work well basically by waving something shiny in it's face. I think that another one of the most useful ideas is being able to expand my writing by including a lot of source material, because it feels like being given permission to do a lot of research and argue my points with evidence, which will help to make writing faster and more familiar. Hopefully both of these together will let me get out of my head and write things that have more dimension and are worth reading. Lastly, I'll give an honorable mention to tip #6 because I already start with the body paragraphs, and I like being told that I'm right.

#I HATE writing in third personnnn!!!!!!! I don't want nothin' to do with pronouns >:(