Possible Quiz matterial for ENSC 105W

The Writing Process

  • Memorize the loop graph

  • Research about inenting

    • Classical studies of rhetoric
    • nero phych studies of crativivty
  • Research about planning

    • Business oriented time management
    • engineering project managemnt
  • Research about revising

    • phych speak alound studies-
    • lit reader reponses
    • studies expeert vs novics
  • Reasearch about drafting

    • most texts only have 1-10% of content related to drafting
  • Allow your self to produces junk

    • try relaxation
    • practice positive selftalk
    • try free writing-
    • visualize or describe your critic and creator
    • lighten up

Some questions to consider

  • do yuo preffer a quest or noisy envoremnt
  • is your writing environment organized, disorganized, or somewher betwen?
    • Writing environment should be
      • physically comfortable
      • well lighted and large enough to read
      • quite or music and free of interruptions
      • well orrganized
      • all of this is personal prefrence
  • When you draft, do you use a pen and paper, or do you type on a computer
  • When you write how do the words come to you

Four basic approaches to drafting

  • Combining inventing, drafting and revising

  • Combining inventing and drafting

  • combining drafting’s and revising

  • Separating inventing, drafting and revising

Causes of writers block

  • Writers block seems most common whlie drafting

  • What causes you to experience writer’s block?

      • planning
      • factors
      • topics
      • words
      • form
      • audiences
      • expectations
      • crises

Flow state

  • flow state is when the challenges and skills are equal
    • if bored
      • focus on higher level tasks such as dealing with audience, style, and format
    • if anxious
      • find sample documents or people whom have experience