D1HW9

Weekly Calendar Sheet

As I filled out my weekly calendar I started to realize how I spend my time and where I have more time than I realized for things like studying and homework. Every night my sleep schedule is pretty consistent, I go to bed between 12 am and 1 am and wake up between 7:30am and 9:30am. I always give myself a 2 hour period in the morning for getting ready, eating breakfast and walking to school with time to prep for class once on campus. I have lots of large gaps between classes and this is a time I can start my homework for the day. I eat all my meals at my sorority house so they are at the same time every day and easy to schedule around. Directly after class is my favorite time to study or do homework because I am still in the mood to work, I try to give myself time after classes because of this. I think my biggest chunk of poorly spent time is early evening. I tend to procrastinate then and loose focus. Hopefully as the school year starts to set in I will get better at managing my time through out the day.

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After reading and looking at the schedules of my classmates I realize that we are all very busy college students and I'm not the only person juggling a full calender. The one thing I noticed while reading Oscar Acosta's post was that he likes to do his homework Monday, Wednesday, Friday and on the weekends. I tend to just do my homework during any free time I have on week days. Between classes, during lunch or at night, I really don't mind I just prefer to make sure its done before the weekend so I can have some free time. Sundays are always study and reading days for me. Stephanie Vicenti had a schedule I could relate to, hard working weeks with time on the weekend.

1.8 My Writting Process

1.  I would consider myself a sequential composer. I believe I take a fair amount of time to think and plan before I write, but it also takes a lot of revision before I come up with a final draft. When I am given a writing assignment the first thing I do is start to think it out and write down all the information I'll need to collect my thoughts. Then I start to write, taking the essay piece by piece. I tend to have to go back and change my opening paragraph to fit my essay when I'm done because I change it a lot just while writing. My final stage is a revision where I make a lot of changes along with the inevitable spelling and grammar corrections.
2. I believe that when I write I use all four types of writing, heavy planner, heavy reviser, sequential composer and procrastination. The most sequential composer and the least procrastination. Depending on the type of essay my approach to writing my differ. On a topic of opinion I find that I use mostly the heavy revision and procrastination, but on a more factual writing assignment I will use much more heavy planning and a fair amount of revising and fact checking. 
3. I find that recently my writing has improved tremendously and I think it is due to my increasing shift to being a sequential composer. When I write it helps me to be balanced in all sections to stay focused and on topic. The biggest flaw in my writing is when I procrastinate, it effects my writing very negatively. 
4. I think the way I'm going about writing right now is the most beneficial for me. I would love to eliminate procrastination completely from my life, but that isn't an instant solution to the holes in my writing.  I feel the more I balance myself between planning and revising the better my work will be.  

 After reading my peers writing processes I saw that procrastination seems to be the biggest issue with many writers. Procrastination can do many different things to a writer, it can get you off topic, make your writing jumbled and messy and even make you miss assignments. It seems like the solution across the board for it is to try your hardest to stay on topic and then heavily revise your papers when your done. I wish there was an easier way to get around it but its all in your own personal determination. I read Felicia Maldonado's thoughts on being a heavy reviser and agreed with her that heavy revising is affective, but personally I need both preparation and revising to get through an essay. I also read Michael Dominguez's " My Writing Process" and saw that he struggles with procrastination which seems to be a large scale problem with all kinds of writers, including myself.

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