end of week four prompt

I have found my college writing style to be completely different from my high school writing style. Before, I would always wait until the complete last minute to start writing papers, but now I don’t. My papers go through specific steps to get from mind boggling ideas to final polished drafts; I call them the seven steps to an A.

1. Call my mother and tell her the essay topic. 

My mother is a talker so when I tell her what the topic is, she gets excited and starts to ramble off dozens of things that I could mention in my paper. I never really use her ideas, but just hearing all of the things that she thinks of gets my brain working on something incredible to write about.

2. Go to Strozier, buy a Grande Caramel Iced Latte from Starbucks, and start writing my first draft.

I have found that if I get out of my room to write the first drafts my papers, I get less distracted and I can get things done faster. Also, the coffee wakes up my brain.

3. Sit in my room and fix a couple of things for draft two.

If you go back and look at the drafts of my papers you will see that draft two is never that much different than draft one. 

4. Read the classmates comments and completely revise paper for final draft. 

I guess you can say that for the final draft, I get extremely serious. This is when I pay a lot of attention about what my classmates had to say about my paper and I will change the whole entire thing around to make it perfect.

5. E-mail final draft to my mother to read.

My mother is a good writer and isn't afraid to tell me if a paper that I write is terrible. I need an honest eye to read over my papers before I submit them.

6. Do a final read over and spelling and grammar check.

Before submitting that final polished draft to blackboard I must do a crowning read over the entire thing. My mother always said that you must read your paper three times before submitting it, but I always skip out on those last two times.

7. Pray for an A!

This step is pretty self-explanatory.

 My steps have worked for me thus far. We will see what happens for paper three. :)