Save your notes and drafts from several assignments so that you can answer the following questions:

■ Which practices of good writers do you follow?

■ Which of the activities discussed in this chapter do you use?

■ How much time do you spend on each of the activities?

■ What kinds of revisions do you make most often?

■ Do you use different processes for different documents, or do you have one process that you use most of the time?

■ What parts of your process seem most successful? Are there any places in the process that could be improved?

How?

■ What relation do you see between the process(es) you use and the quality of the final document?

As your instructor directs,

a. Discuss your process with a small group of other students.

b. Write an email to your instructor analyzing in detail your process for composing one of the papers for this class.

c. Write an email to your instructor analyzing your process during the term. What parts of your process(es) have stayed the same throughout the term? What parts have changed?