Throughout Ramirez’s writing, she mentions that the term “writers block” has always been labeled as being “bad” and have a negative attatchment to it. Many people believe that writer’s block is the worst thing when writing. However, she believes that writers block should happen anytime a student or anyone writes something. Ramirez believes that if a writers block isn’t used, their work isn’t challenging enough, nor is it a strong writing. While writing, there needs to be certain precautions in order to lessen how often writers block occurs.Ramirez mentions that referring back to the rubric is the first precautions to look out for. In order to have a strong writing, skimming over the rubric and gathering the most important information is what helps her because there aren’t many different thoughts and ideas flooding her head, and by skimming through the rubric, this helps create a detailed writing as you can build off of the ideas that were skimmed from the rubric. Ramirez mentions that for some people, this many not work as efficiently as it does for her depending on how well people’s skimming skills are. Her 5 different techniques are to skim over the rubric, write until you have reached the page limit, go back and many any adjustments needed, and submit once you feel like the writing is strong and has as much detail as possible. The next precaution Ramirez mentions is to sleep on it if you are stuck and don’t have the energy or motivation to think well or are struggling to find the right words. She encourages people who are having a hard time writing to close their laptop, sleep on it, and the next day there aren’t a million thoughts in their brain and don’t feel overwhelmed. This is a great idea, and something that works for me because for some people, including myself this happens frequently either because of the amount of stress put on me, or simply just because nothing is coming to my mind or if i am having trouble focusing. Ramirez points out different ideas on how to create a strong well written writing, and for some people, these ideas and precautions may work for them.
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