To Study and Be Studied

Writing is something that has been studied for years. There are so many aspects that one could focus on when studying how a person writes. Choosing who to be like a lab rat in understanding how people write will result in different findings. Carol Berkenkotter studied the revision part of the writing process. The revision period does offer insight on how the writer may be thinking. For her study, Berkenkotter reviewed the findings of others who had studied the writing process and looked at their methods to achieve her own research. 

Berkenkotter’s study didn’t come without the problems like most of the research studies that commence.Writing studies do not always take into account the things that one might do when doing writing. Example of that being how Carol’s test subject Donald M. Murray wrote in a journal and referred to it before actually making changes. Personally I flip flop between taking notes or remembering from memory when I’m writing. Murray’s time in his journal helps decide his next approach to how he continues to write. Murray’s other problem is similar to my own and that of others. The outside factors that cause interruptions that take away time from writing or like myself the brain decides to think of random things that do have a value but aren’t important in that particular moment.

In agreement with Murray the time constraint in which he had definitely isn’t great. Time constraints never are. Racing to finish a deadline makes everything harder. It isn’t just a race against time but also a race against the internal feelings that come up like anxiety.

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