Paper+1+Reflections_Aniyah

__**Reflection on Paper One**__

__Writing the Paper__

As far as the overall experience, writing this paper wasy. My personalprocess includes writing an outline, writing the rough draft based off of as much personal knowledge as I can, do research on any ideas in my draft that need citing and/or verification, writing another draft with the works cited and the parenthetical citations, revise/edit, then fill in the rest of the MLA format.

All of my prewriting, drafting, and research is done on the computer. Also, I have to listen to musi;I have been using music as a fierce motivation since middle school. (To be honest, I would rather not work in complete silence. If my environment is too quiet,I'll start to think about a bunch of random things.) I usually have some sort of snack with me as well.

The only challenging aspect of this paper that I came across was writing the outline. Outlines are easy for me to quickly craft, but because this paper required a number of different parts and ideas I had to carefully craft the order of which I would discuss each topic. Additionally, I had to make sure that the order I chose had gradual transitions between paragraphs.

__Advice__

I understand that not every single topic given to you is something that you really want to write about. It may also br difficult to write about a topic that you either have no interest in or have little knowledge of. Here is what I do to tackle that barrier:

Write what you know! This is like a pre-write. Don't worry about any sort of logical order or sources. Just write as much about the topic that you know (or that you heard about) as you can. With this, you'd be surprised at how much you can come up with.

Write what you don't know! With writing what you do know, you may think of some questions. What is this? What does it mean? Where diditcome from? Make a list of everything that you do not know.

Outline! This is where I write my outline. This will give a sense of direction of where you want to go with you paper.

Research! With research, you can double-check the things that you knew or heard and you can also answer all of the questions that you had about the topic.

In most cases, this will help with the writing part.

I do know that sometimes it's not the paper itself that is the problem. The problem may be that you just need motivation to write. This issue is a bit harder to give advice about because different people work under different conditions. Some work better when they're in a good mood, others get things done when they are upset about something. Some need plenty of time to work, others work well under pressure. Some are motivated by thinking of the rewards they will get when they finish, others are motivated by the consequences they will receive if they don't finish. The only advice I can really give on this is to find out what drives you, then run with it!