Ch. 3 In Changing Writing and MWA #2

   In Chapter 3 of Changing Writing it explains many things you should do when writing. One point they make is for the writer to think about PACT, purpose, audience, context, and text while writing. Thinking back on how I wrote the Major Writing Assignment #2 I really did not think about my audience. I didn’t think about who I was writing this paper for or who would read it. I believe if I did think about the audience I would have wrote it differently. Another point the book makes about writing is you should write in a place with little distractions. I did not follow this while writing MWA #2. I wrote this paper in a room with other people and with either music playing or people talking. I am not someone who likes complete silence while writing, that is why I listen to music while I work, but I noticed myself stopping to talk to my friends instead of giving my full attention to my paper. I think if I would have given my full attention to my paper I probably would have a better sounding paper in the terms of flow and grammar. Another suggestion the book gave for improving your writing is to brainstorm. I usually do not brainstorm before I write. I usually just sit down and write content but then revise it multiple times. I think if I did brainstorm I would have a better organized paper and it would show when you read through it. I notice in some of my papers I often write my thoughts which sometimes can be confusing for readers and not very organized. By brainstorming before I think this would change this. This chapter also pointed out that you should narrow your sources for a research paper down to only the important ones. I did this step for MWA #2. For this paper, I found tons of information ranging from articles, videos, and opinion pieces. I started out by just simply finding sources and skimming over them If I felt they could be a little helpful to my paper I saved them. I had around twenty different sources when I stated to write my paper. After reading them more thoroughly I realized not all of them were vital to my papers content. I choose the sources that added good support for my arguments and ended up with a lot fewer sources then when I started.