Questions

Conner Evans

9/7/14

English 1100-37

Professor Young

1.     The terms writing and free writing have totally different meanings. Free writing, also known as “automatic writing, babbling, or jabbering exercises”, is used to practice for writing. It requires writing without stopping or hesitation. Practicing for ten minutes could improve the quality of one’s writing greatly.  Writing is the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text. Writing allows editing, while free writing does not.

2.     The meaning behind the sentence “the habit of compulsive, premature editing doesn’t just make writing hard. It also makes writing dead” means editing a sentence numerous times, allows it to become almost to sound like regurgitated information.  Writing whatever comes to mind gives the paper life and makes writing enjoyable to read. By worrying about if the piece of writing meets the standards required, one is taking the originality of it.

3.     Elbow means that if one focuses on how to start their paper “the way it is suppose to be”, the whole paper will just be another piece of writing without any fluidity to it. By starting the paper off with raw thought, will leave an interesting piece of writing that is full of life, rather than another boring essay. For example, the first impression of a paper is based off of the first paragraph. So when the reader reads the paragraph, it would be difficult to read the rest of the paper because of the “just right” sentences.