Chaiwat Grayson

ENC 1101
September 15, 2014
Chaiwat@knights.ucf.edu
My Writing Habits
Throughout the last few weeks I had time to experiment with my writing
habits and gain knowledge on different viewpoints of the composition process. I
was able to identify ways to people can improve writing and discover the
techniques people used during writing. The main reason people study writing
process is to find out where the texts come from. I studied many authors who
revealed great insight on the study of writing and reading such as Sondra Perl,
Mike Rose, Anne Lamott and Paul Prior. They revealed common misconceptions
and problems people face during writing and methods to overcome them. The
authors research was mainly focused on researching other people rather than
themselves. Whilst I studied myself and was able to produce a new approach
that these authors werent able to achieve by a self-study. The fact that these
writers have been studying writing for several years, I am able to provide
information from a fresh new view as an average college student writer at
university.
I was able to gather a wholesome amount of new information to support
my central claim that I have on my own distinct writing habit and that I am
driven by revision. I was able to identify that I was most productive in short
bursts rather than long exposures of reading and writing. Towards the
beginning, I would begin to get bored and start commenting a lot on the reading
and start complaining. Towards the end of the research, once I was able to relate
to the topic, almost everything flowed more naturally and the complaining
drastically stopped. I realized while listening to music, I would start singing
along causing a massive amount of commenting and a lot of rereading. I was able

Chaiwat Grayson
ENC 1101
September 15, 2014
Chaiwat@knights.ucf.edu
to attain that I was most effective reading with only a light background noise.
The environment that created great amounts of productivity was an area with a
little background noise, room temperature and a well-lit area. I had to percolate
the subject in my unconscious mind, to find new inspiration to complete my
research to completion.
Paul Prior, a Professor of English and the Centre for Writing Studies at the
University of Illinois emphasizes an applicable approach called the Think Aloud
Protocol as students are composing they have to say aloud everything they are
thinking inside their head. I used this method in my self-study to provide
comprehension on my writing habits and how I interacted during my writing. I
used codes to provide units of meaning behind what I was doing whilst
composing to gather all the information and recognize a pattern.
According to Sondra Perl, Professor of English of Herbert Lehmann
College, her studies show that there is a pattern amongst unskilled writers and
how they think when beginning to write. Such as a consistent pattern amongst
unskilled writers was a cycle process of prewriting, writing and editing. She
developed codes to identify specific parts of composing such as prewriting,
miscues, amount of time writing, the behaviours etc. I relate to her extremely
well because during my writing process and editing I often went through a
recursive feature of moving back and forth revising my thoughts and
inscriptions. This was all recorded in my coding research describing my thought
process, which consisted of me editing at least seven times and rereading four
times in the Sondra Perl discussion.

Chaiwat Grayson
ENC 1101
September 15, 2014
Chaiwat@knights.ucf.edu
That writers block is following such strict algorithms, which impede the
writing.

Works cited
Lamott, Anne. Shitty First Drafts. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on
Writing and Life.
Perl, Sondra. "The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers."
Research in the Teaching of English 13.4 (1979): 317-36. Print.

New York: Anchor, 1994. 21-27. Print