My Writing Process

            My last writing class was senior year in high school, where we had many literal analysis papers on different types of stories. This included poems, short stories, nonfiction and fiction. This was a common theme for any of my papers in high school, with a very heavy focus on claim, data, and warrant. I believe this way of writing has helped my own writing, but I sometimes fall into a groove where I keep repeating the claim, data, warrant recipe over and over again. My dad has always been my proofreader, even in college, and he tells me that I have a very monotone and academic way of writing. I believe this is because of writing only research papers and very academic pieces. Our handwritten paragraphs were expected to be written this way also. I have not written a story like the audio memoir throughout my schooling, so it was different, and I could not follow my normal process. I am expecting to follow the process that I used in high school for our next paper as it is similar to the papers that I wrote previously. I believe this process is quite effective because although it can be very monotonic, it allows the writer to clearly get his or her idea across while also proving it a few sentences later. I have no plans of changing my writing process currently, but always try to be conscious not to follow the same pattern too many times in my writing and sound repetitive.