Exercise 4.m

Although this is my first English class at Virginia Tech, I have written many papers so far this year for school. I usually write in my dorm room in Pritchard at my desk mainly due to the fact that my laptop, which I almost always do my writing with, is always sitting there. The conditions I write in have varied widely so far this year. As I sit typing now, my surroundings are complete silent, which is a rarity as most of the time I write a paper my conditions are far worse. On one occasion I had a paper due at 8 am Friday morning. Being the intelligent person I am, I waited till Thursday night to do it. To add to this I also planned on going out that night, so it was a race against the clock to finish my paper by around 10 pm. To make things even worse, a good number of my friends were in my room watching television and thought it would be hilarious to repeatedly bother me while I sat typing. Somehow despite this I received an A. So to sum up a slight rant, the conditions that I write in vary extremely. I really don't use any stategies in my process, I usually type what comes to mind, as I am doing right now. As for drafting processes, sometimes I will ask my friends what they think of my paper, but that is somewhat of a rarity. When it comes to revision, if my friends read my paper and find an error or out of place sentence I usually take their advice. Other than that, I usually will read over my paper and fix what I find wrong. My ideal writing conditions would be just to have my room to myself, little or no noise and for it to be an hour to two after I am done class. This way I wouldnt being worry about being constricted by my schedule or have to deal with distractions. My experience with workshop and peer reviews is certainly not negative, however, I rarely accomplish much when participating in one, but hopefully that will change this semester.