Writing in a sense is a synthesis because you incorporate ideas presented by other authors to build your own argument and seek for evidence from different sources as well. Keeping this in mind, I try to build up my writing process as follows: starting from preliminary research, then moving to collecting data, thinking, formulating a research question, developing a thesis, making an outline, writing the first draft and then revising it (several times if needed) before submitting a final paper. However, this is an ideal writing process sticking to each every time is challenging. As it was discussed in my previous short paper, it is impossible to write from nowhere, so preliminary research or pre-reading is a foundation stone in any writing. There is a blurred border between preliminary research and collecting data because sources I am reading at the preliminary research stage may become the data for your future research. This stage also includes thinking itself, because preliminary research and thinking about future writing go simultaneously. This stage of preliminary research involves the majority of time during my writing process because it sets up a foundation for successful writing and puts things in the right places in my head. After sufficient amount of information has been read (with a research question …show more content…
For any concerns regarding a thesis and arguments of a paper, I prefer contacting an instructor of a course himself (herself) because sometimes advice received in the Writing Center do not correspond to requirements or guidelines given by a professor. However, it is he (or she) who will grade my paper, so while completing writing course assignments (I am not talking about other purpose papers), I prefer following a professor’s