January 30th Homework

Harris Summary:
In her article, "Composing Behaviors of One- and Multi-Draft Writers", Muriel Harris explains the differences between one and multiple drafts, and the problems that each create. She provides examples to prove this point by explaining the good things and bad things of writing for each of these drafts.

1.) Are you a one or multi-draft writer? How do you know?
I think of myself as a one draft writer. When I write, I revise my original draft but still use most of the information that I used first. I don't write multiple drafts when I write; I can get all the information I need into one paper without having to look at multiple drafts.

2.) What, according to Harris, are the disadvantages you might face because of your tendency toward one or multi-draft writing?
One draft writers would not have the luxury of being able to look at multiple papers to take out the information that they thought is effective. Multi-draft writers would have to think of different ways to approach their topic, and this could cause them to wander away from their topic a little bit.

Response:
I enjoyed reading Harris's article because it helped me understand the pros and cons of writing using one or multi-drafts. She did take a while to get her point across through the reading, but I think she got all the information she needed for this article.

Ransom Summary:
In her article, "How Do I Write?", Dominieq Ransom explains what results she found about herself in the experiment she did on how she writes. Her experiment was timed and she struggled at some points during her writing process more than others. For example, she realized that with the time constraint she had to write faster which caused her to make mistakes in her writing.

Questions to Consider:
1.) Some of the things that I found interesting in this reading are the amount of time that she took revising, her biggest distraction was time even though she was in a quiet room alone, and the time she spent adjusting to get into a comfortable place within herself. I think that if I did research on my own, I could learn that writing is based a little bit on the emotions the writer has for any reason. The article a person writes could be full of hatred towards a subject if they are angry at somebody or something going on in their life.

2.) This does not happen to me because I am not the kind of person that gets thinking strongly about things from reading their own notes. I am the type of person to take in the information and express it out on paper.

Response:
I liked reading this article because it was written by another college student, and she was expressing the way she writes, whether it was good or bad. I can relate to this article because I generally have a problem with time management, and get distracted by numbers of things while I am writing. But this goes to show the problems she does have, and lets her think about things she can do to fix them.