When I write a paper for English class, any English class, I never really follow any certain script. To tell you the truth I write my papers on a spur of the moment. I procrastinate more than most college students and therefore I usually wait until the last minute to type out a paper.
When I do actually start it I am usually sitting at my desk with the prompt. I answer the question first in my head, and then take a few mental notes as to how I want to go about answering the question at hand. I usually come to a block here, because when I answer the question to myself I always have a hard time inturperreting into english words other people will understand. So I end up typing a whole paragraph just off the top of my head. I go back and reread it once or twice, and then either fix it so it makes sense, or just dump the whole paragraph. I end up doing this about 3 times before I get a reasonable introduction. Then I go from there. After presenting the problem, depending on how long the paper has to be, I attempt to translate my thinkning onto the paper.
If I do anything else besides concentrate on the paper I stop writng. I get so easily distracted with anything that it is hard for me to talk to someone else. Having an IM conversation is completely out of the question, and if my phone rings I'm even more screwed.
I do however listen to music as I write. I feel it allows me to write more freely, as I think less about what I am actually putting on the paper. As a rough draft, I usually just have my thoughts written down as they flow out of my head. Then I go back and reread, using spell check.
I am terrible at grammar and spelling (you may have already caught a bunch of spelling errors here) and if I can not use spell check as a crutch, fifty percent of the words in my paper could be misspelled.
For me I have no joy in writing papers in which a topic has been asigned. It seems very chaotic for me, and it is not something I enjoy.
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