Thursday, January 27, 2011
Getting Started
Let's blog: Consider yourself as a writer. Think about your own writing processes. What steps, thinking processes do you use when you write? What are your strengths/weaknesses? What strategies do you use when you write? In other words, reflect about yourself as a writer. (What are you doing right now as you begin writing, as you write, as you change your mind and move into another thought process:are you nervous, unsure, frustrated with trying to decide what to say...).
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My job requires that I write every day, such as emails, summaries of discussions I've held at meetings, briefings or point papers for management and clients, and draft reports for eventual public release. Emails require the least amount of forethought or planning and draft reports the most. The wider the wider the dissemination the more thought and energy I put into it, and the more frustrating it is when things do not go smoothly. But after doing this for 30 years, I feel competent enough as a writer to tackle just about anything related to my job. Writing for academia is a whole other experience. More on that later.
ReplyDeleteI write every day for work as well, in the form of business emails and reports which require a fair amount of planning and effort. Although I work in a creative industry, I am on the business side, and the writing which is required of me needs to be logical, concise, and offers little opportunity for creative writing. I use less elevated language in my business writing than what is expected in the academic writing required in the Wright State Graduate Program.
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