My Composing Process

     Throughout my writing career I have not had a specific process I absolutely have to follow in order to write, but I do have certain things I have to do to organize my thoughts before I start writing. When given a prompt or a question I have to write about, I have to read the prompt more than once and highlight exactly what I need to answer and include in my essay. After I know exactly what I am writing about, I have to complete a form of free-writing. During my process of free-writing, I usually just write down any ideas that come to my head about my topic. Then I start clustering them into certain categories in order for me to make a thesis statement. I am not the type of person who can come up with a well-worded thesis statement in five minutes. I have to list all of my ideas and points out and then take time to create a working thesis statement. Once I organize all of my thoughts and write them out in front of me, I am able to start my rough draft. There is no specific place I have to be when I write, as long as I have planned my thoughts out on paper, I am able to write my rough draft in one sitting. After I write my rough draft, I like to take a break from it for a while before I start revising it. When I revise my paper I have to read it very slowly to make sure my wording and sentences make sense, and to see if I have any spelling or grammer errors. After I do this, I like to give my paper to someone else to get another opinion on my writing and ideas. I want to make sure my ideas make sense and if I put them in a good order. After I get another opinion, I read my essay one more time and then I am ready to turn it in.

     In this class I am excited to analyze things and write about what I think they mean and why people did what they did. For our upcoming project about finding a commercial, visual, or essay, we are able to analyze it's rhetoric. I think for this project I am going to do a Subaru commercial. In the commercial it shows a man driving a Subaru with a puppy in the front seat going to the country to play with his dog. Then it shows the man driving the same Subaru with his wife in the front seat and the grown dog in the back seat driving to that same spot in the country. Finally, it shows the couple with a little boy in the back seat and the old dog in the very back driving out to the country in the Subaru. It goes through the man's life showing how the Subaru, just like the dog, is a loyal companion. This commercial is full of rhetoric and is what I am going to write my essay on. It will be easier to write this essay now that I have thought about what processes work for me when I am writing. 

Hannah Ross' Bio

     My name is Hannah Ross and I am a freshman at Clemson University! I chose to come to Clemson because I fell in love with the campus the first time I visited. I love how the campus is the town and it makes anyone feel at home. I grew up in Charleston, SC, and loved living five minutes away from the beach. I am an Early Childhood Education major and want to become a kindergarten teacher after college. I had an internship in a first grade classroom during my entire senior year and I was able to teach students and see what it was like to be a teacher. I love feeling like I am impacted the students in a positive way and I am so excited to start my field experience at Clemson. I have played soccer since I was five years old and I played for Wando High School for the past four years. During the time I was there, we won three state championships and was runner up on year. I miss soccer now that I am here at Clemson, but I plan to get involved in the inter mural soccer teams and other sports.
     During high school, I took Honors English for three years and then AP Literature my senior year. I loved AP Literature because we read so many different novels that I would not have picked on my own. I got to learn the deeper meanings of many novels and it made me like reading a lot more. As far as my writing goes, I do not have a huge vocabulary, but I have always loved writing. I love writing about the meaning of a work. I feel like anyone can read a novel or look at a painting and interpret it differently. I am looking forward to this English class because I love to write and because we do a blog. I have never done a blog before and I think it will be a fun thing to do.