One of the habits I believe that I already posses is number 4 “Discover what methods of drafting work best for you”. I always start my first draft right on the computer. As I write I revise extensively. I’m constantly reading back and trying to make sure that the things I write make sense to me. I also try to make sure I choose the right words in each sentence so that it’s clear to the reader what it is that I’m trying to say. After every paragraph I read it over to make sure it flows properly, and decide if all the ideas in a certain paragraph work together or seem to be a collection of random ideas. Although I must admit that this slows down my writing a bit.
Habit number 5 “for early drafts reduce your expectations” is a habit that could probably help me. As I mentioned earlier the constant revising as I write tends to slow down my writing so reducing my expectations for earlier drafts could help move me along. Constantly revising doesn’t give me writers block like the book says happens to some people, but it does stop me from writing all of my ideas down quickly. Another thing that could help me is scheduling my time. I was reading the last paper that we just turned in for this class on Friday, and I found some things I wish I could have changed before I turned it in. If I would have scheduled my time better I could have caught these things when it mattered.
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