1. When I am trying to get ideas together for writing a paper, it all depends on the type of paper it is. If it’s a narrative paper, I will just sit down and start writing because there really isn’t anything to research. If it is a more complex paper, then I tend to look up some more information about the topic to learn more about what I am about to write. I don’t have a lot of examples in my portfolio contributing to how I gather up ideas for my paper. I tend to just sit down and open up my laptop and let the thoughts come to me. The only examples I have in my portfolio is the free write that we did the first week of class. That was the only brainstorming that I did about the topic.
2. The audience for the narrative paper was my classmates and my professor. The audience made my writing a bit more complex. The content was more descriptive to help my professor and classmates better understand my writing process. The little details that I do throughout my process of writing was included to help my audience understand my writing process thoroughly. I added smaller details about my writing process to help my classmates better understand how I go about writing papers. So then maybe they could take some of my things I do and
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English 104 is a fun class because the professor makes it entertaining and not so boring to learn about the writing process. I enjoy the group discussions that we have in class. I also appreciate how the professor doesn’t force anyone to share their free writes to the class. I don’t like my writing enough to share to the whole class. In my opinion, I think I am a horrible writer so I am very self-conscious about it. When I read through my writings, I feel like a five-year-old wrote the paper, that’s how bad my writing is. I don’t really use a lot of complex words in my writing like I should, especially now that I am writing at a college level. Writing is just difficult for me to do in general. I think my writing has a lot of room for