{"id":32730,"date":"2024-09-17T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reflecting-on-the-writing-process-planning-drafting-revising-how-does-reading-make-you-a-better-writer-and-what-kind-of-reading-do-you-need-to-do-before-and-during-the-academic-writing-process\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T01:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T01:30:34","slug":"reflecting-on-the-writing-process-planning-drafting-revising-how-does-reading-make-you-a-better-writer-and-what-kind-of-reading-do-you-need-to-do-before-and-during-the-academic-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reflecting-on-the-writing-process-planning-drafting-revising-how-does-reading-make-you-a-better-writer-and-what-kind-of-reading-do-you-need-to-do-before-and-during-the-academic-writing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the Writing Process Planning Drafting Revising How does reading make you a better writer, and what kind of reading do you need to do before and during the academic writing process?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. At the beginning of the chapter on Planning, Ken Macrorie claims that \u201cgood writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.\u201d Do you agree? Why or why not? Relate Macrorie\u2019s idea to your own writing experiences. How might you improve the way you plan your writing?<\/li>\n
  2. Drafting – Patricia T. O\u2019Connor says, \u201cAll writing begins life as a first draft, and first drafts are never any good. They\u2019re not supposed to be.\u201d Is this claim true? Why or why not? What do you hope to accomplish with a first draft? How can you make drafting more effective?<\/li>\n
  3. Revising – Doris Lessing has stated that when it comes to writing, \u201cThe more a thing cooks, the better.\u201d In what sense is revision a crucial stage in that cooking process? Using Lessing\u2019s cooking metaphor as a starting point, explore how revision should function in your own writing. How should you let your writing cook?<\/li>\n
  4. How does reading make you a better writer, and what kind of reading do you need to do before and during the academic writing process?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At the beginning of the chapter on Planning, Ken Macrorie claims that \u201cgood writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.\u201d Do you agree? Why or why not? Relate Macrorie\u2019s idea to your own writing experiences. How might you improve the way you plan your writing? Drafting – Patricia T. O\u2019Connor says, \u201cAll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[14],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=32730"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=32730"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=32730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}