Statement of Goals and Choices

My essay contains a theory of writing paper that looks at how listening to music,

planning, and procrastination affect writing. I was trying to take a closer look at my own process.

I found myself particularly focussing on the bad part of my process of the part that I thought

needed the most change. I found several sources that backed up my original suspicion.

It accomplishes taking a closer look at the way that I built my process over the years and

what I can do to improve it. It does that by looking at several sources to consider how each step

might affect one another. This is mostly for myself so I can know what I personally need to

improve on and how to make my process better. But also for the assignment and the grader.

I made the choice to pick 3 particular areas that I thought needed the most improvement

and focused on those things. I picked them because they are all things that affect the entire

project and not just one small part of it. I knew that my process needed to be improved to i

intentionally planned my essay to show that the most

I spent quite a while looking for the perfect source to use in each section of my essay that

would best reflect the weaknesses my process has. They are detailed research conducted by very

reputable sources because I wanted my essay to be more analytical and scientifically provable

rather than subjective or something that could be interpreted too differently.

It helped me accomplish my objective. Research helped me as well and stayed focused on

the task at hand. Teachers and videos explaining the task also helped.
 My music source connects because the study is about listening to music while writing a

paper which is what I do most of the time and the essay is about the process of writing. My essay

planning source connects because I usually never plan an essay and the source was talking about

why it is so important to plan an essay. The last source was about procrastination dn whale this

source was more general. It was still very helpful because it was about college students and

academic performance. That relates heavily to the assignment as it is an assignment in college.

All of these things connect to the argument that my process is very flawed and needs a lot of

improvement.

I learned that engaging in inquiry can be a lot harder than it looks and involve a lot more

detail than one might expect. Along with that rhetorical choices must be intentional and

meaningful and can rarely be done well by accident. Research can be hard especially when you

are looking for a source about something really specific but it can all be worth it when you find

the right one. Using sources is easy as long as you don't plagiarize and properly cite them in the

paper or project.