Writing Process Animation
Summary
TLDRJonathan shares his blog writing process, emphasizing that writing is a skill that can be improved with practice. He outlines strategies for planning, researching, and drafting, highlighting the importance of setting goals, reducing distractions, and revising. The video provides practical tips for improving writing in any context, from academic assignments to professional communications.
Takeaways
- 📝 Writing is a skill that can be improved with time and practice.
- 🎯 Good writers use strategies to achieve success, not just natural talent.
- 📅 Planning is crucial for high-quality writing; it involves making a timeline, selecting a topic, and creating an outline.
- 👕 Getting comfortable and reducing distractions are essential steps before starting to write.
- 📈 Setting short-term, concrete, and challenging goals for each stage of the writing process is important for improvement.
- 🤔 Brainstorming helps in selecting a topic that is both interesting and relevant to the course or task at hand.
- 📚 Research should be thorough and use credible sources; Wikipedia is not sufficient on its own.
- 📝 Writing a draft comes after researching and outlining, not before; it's a process of organizing thoughts and information.
- 🔍 Revising is more than just proofreading; it involves looking at the whole structure, sections, and individual sentences.
- 🔄 Regularly monitoring progress and adjusting goals and timelines is key to staying on track and improving.
- 👥 Seeking feedback from others and self-evaluating against a rubric can significantly enhance the quality of the final piece.
Q & A
What is the most important takeaway from the video about writing?
-The key message is that writing is a skill that can be improved through practice, patience, and persistence. Strategies can help, but effort is required to become a better writer.
Why is planning important before starting to write?
-Planning helps structure your thoughts and improves the overall quality of your writing. It is often more effective than relying on multiple revisions alone.
What are the main stages of writing a blog according to the video?
-The main stages are planning, research, writing, and revision. Breaking the task into these stages makes the process more manageable and ensures higher quality.
How does setting goals improve the writing process?
-Setting clear, concrete, and challenging goals gives you a sense of direction and helps you track progress. It keeps you motivated and focused on improvement.
Why does the speaker recommend writing down your progress?
-Writing down progress helps maintain accountability and allows you to make more accurate time estimates in the future. It also helps track distractions and work conditions.
Why should you avoid writing the introduction and conclusion first?
-The speaker recommends writing the body of the blog first, as it allows you to better understand the flow and content. Writing the introduction and conclusion last ensures they align with the rest of the post.
What should you focus on during the research phase?
-During research, focus on gathering credible, high-quality sources. Make notes in your outline and continually refine your topic based on the information you find.
Why is revision more than just proofreading?
-Revision involves looking at the overall structure, the order of sections, and sentence flow. Proofreading is the final step, focusing only on fixing minor errors.
How can you ensure that your sources are credible?
-Check if the content has been reviewed by an editor or if the author is a professional respected in their field. Avoid over-reliance on sites like Wikipedia for serious research.
What is a good practice after completing your first draft?
-A good practice is to step away from your draft and come back to it with fresh eyes. This helps you revise more objectively and improve the overall quality.
Outlines
📝 The Journey to Better Writing
Jonathan introduces the video by emphasizing that writing is a skill that can be improved with effort and practice. He dispels the myth that writing is an innate gift and highlights the importance of using strategies to achieve success in writing. He encourages viewers to apply these strategies to improve their writing, noting that writing is a valuable skill in any career. Jonathan also shares his personal experience as a programmer who had to write extensively, illustrating that writing is a fundamental form of communication. He sets the stage for the video by outlining the steps he takes to write a blog, including getting comfortable, reducing distractions, and planning his writing process.
📅 Planning and Setting Goals for Writing Success
In this paragraph, Jonathan discusses the importance of planning and setting goals for each stage of the writing process. He explains how he creates a timeline for his blog writing, breaking it down into planning, research, writing, and revision stages. He also stresses the significance of selecting a topic that interests him, which he believes is crucial for producing engaging content. Jonathan shares his brainstorming process, where he connects his interests with course themes to find a suitable topic. He also talks about using current events as a source of inspiration for writing topics. The paragraph concludes with Jonathan updating his timeline and outlining his goals for the research phase of his blog writing.
🔍 Research and Drafting the Blog Post
Jonathan details his approach to researching and drafting his blog post. He advises against relying solely on Wikipedia and instead encourages seeking out primary sources and credible information. He emphasizes the importance of taking detailed notes and updating his outline as he researches, which helps sharpen the focus of his blog. The paragraph also covers Jonathan's method of drafting his blog, where he writes the body of the post before the introduction and conclusion, as he believes it's essential to know the content of the post before crafting these sections. He sets goals for each section, reads over his notes, and writes while talking to himself to maintain motivation. Jonathan also monitors his progress, noting the time spent working and any distractions encountered.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Writing as a skill
💡Planning
💡Setting goals
💡Distractions
💡Research
💡Revision
💡Outline
💡Brainstorming
💡Self-monitoring
💡Persistence
Highlights
Writing is a skill that can be improved with effort and practice.
Good writers use strategies to achieve success.
Improving your writing takes time, patience, and persistence.
Writing is a valuable skill in any career due to its role in communication.
Before writing, it's important to get comfortable and reduce distractions.
Planning your writing involves making a timeline, selecting a topic, and creating an outline.
Setting goals for each stage of writing helps monitor progress and stay motivated.
Selecting a topic that interests you can make writing more engaging.
Brainstorming helps connect personal interests with course themes for blog topics.
Using the news as a starting point can inspire blog topics related to the course.
A rough outline guides research and the structure of the blog post.
Research should be thorough, using credible sources and avoiding over-reliance on Wikipedia.
Take detailed notes during research to inform the writing process.
Writing a draft involves setting section goals and using notes to structure content.
Talking to oneself during writing can help with flow and motivation.
Revision is more than proofreading; it involves assessing the overall structure and content.
Adding supporting materials like images and charts can enhance the blog post.
Proofreading is the final step to ensure grammatical accuracy and clarity.
Getting feedback from others and self-marking against a rubric can refine the final draft.
Transcripts
hey I'm Jonathan I'm going to show you
how I write a blog and show you some
strategies that you can use to improve
your writing before we begin I want to
emphasize something really fundamentally
important to becoming a better writer
writing is a skill and therefore it can
be improved it's common misconception
that writing is a gift and it's easy to
see why usually we only see a finished
product a great blog a brilliant novel
we don't see the hours and hours of
effort that were put into them good
writers use strategies to help them
achieve success I'll show you a number
of useful strategies but it's up to you
to make use of them like any skill
improving your writing takes time and
practice as much as I'd love for you
watch this video and be magically
transformed into a brilliant writer it's
not going to happen but the good news is
if you put in the effort and believe in
yourself
with patience and persistence you'll
improve your writing and that really is
great news because writing is such a
valuable skill regardless of what career
you choose to pursue writing is a
primary form of communication with your
co-workers bosses clients I mean I was a
programmer not a job usually associated
with writing and I was constantly
writing design plans test plans bug
reports professional emails taking the
time to develop your writing skills is
time well-spent
great writing can help you win awards
get jobs and advance your career great
so now we've established two things
writing is a skill that can be improved
and there's value in writing this
particular assignment is to write a blog
but the strategies I'm going to show you
are applicable to all sorts of writing
and other activities so let's do it
before I start working I always do two
things get comfortable and reduce
distractions writing is a slow process
that requires concentration so I change
into my comfiest clothes go to a quiet
place where I won't get interrupted and
shut off anything that might distract me
tea bees and phones our productivity and
quality writing killers instead of
getting my head into what I'm writing
I'm constantly texting and emailing
facebooking tweeting glancing at the TV
so I just shut them all off and I
mentally prepare to write research shows
that students have the lowest confidence
in their ability to concentrate when
there are distractions around
okay I'm comfortable I'm in quiet place
without distractions it's go time
step one plan my writing amateur writers
often skip this step which is a big
mistake researchers have found that the
quality of writing assignments is
determined more by the amount of
planning done than by the number of
revisions completed planning involves
three things making a timeline selecting
a topic and creating an outline for my
blog to make a timeline I break apart
the test of writing a blog into four
stages planning research writing and
revision there are a lot of tools that
you can use to help you create your
timeline but I like to keep it simple I
use a calendar in a text document the
calendar helps me visualize my deadlines
the text document helps me set my goals
and monitor my progress the tools not
the important part here is the act of
writing it down and planning your work
that matters so first I write down the
due date next I know I need a day to
revise my draft so I set the previous
day as the due date for my final draft I
always give myself a minimum of one
night's sleep
after finishing my draft to revise it
next I need to set myself deadlines for
the other stages so planning I'll do it
today research is where I find my
sources and make my notes and start to
fill in my outline research always takes
me longer than I think it will so I'll
start today and I'll aim to have most of
it done by the end of tomorrow the third
stage of writing my blog is writing a
draft which is the longest stage I'll
live to have a draft completed by the
end of the next day at this point I've
got a rough timeline I'm going to do my
best to stick to it or even get ahead of
schedule when you first start planning
it's hard to make accurate estimates
people tend to always underestimate how
long things take I'm going to write down
my progress as I go so that I can make
better estimates going forward the next
thing I do is I write down the goals for
my writing do this the goals I set are
going to be short-term concrete and
challenging it's important to set goals
that are difficult but achievable if I
select goals that are too easy then I'm
not motivated toward towards them and I
won't improve but on the other hand if
my goals are unrealistic I'm setting
myself up for failure or I'll feel
overwhelmed and I won't even try okay
I'm going to set goals for each stage
for planning I'm
to select a topic I find interesting and
create an outline for my paper before I
start writing for research I'm going to
find five high quality sources and take
notes while reading putting them in the
appropriate sections of my outline for
writing I'm going to write an engaging
introduction have at least three
subsections and write a strong
concluding paragraph that ties together
my blog entry setting goals and writing
them down is essential because it gives
me something to work toward and allows
me to monitor my progress okay take a
minute pause the video and set your own
goals okay I'm comfortable I'm in a good
working space I have a time line and
I've written down my goals now it's time
to pick a topic because you can pick
your own topic you have an opportunity
here to explore something that you're
actually interested in so take advantage
writing is so much more than just
knowledge telling where you talk about
what you already know it's about
research and learning sharing your
thoughts and ideas if you're passionate
about your topic it's going to come
across in your writing brainstorming
time before I start I do something
really really important under my
planning goal I write down my starting
time I'll focus on my interests and the
themes in the course and try to find
ways to connect them I'm interested in
music cycling and politics four-course
themes I'll go through the textbook and
course website and find ones that
interest me privacy freedom of speech
and intellectual property okay
how can I connect these let's start with
music I stream music online using
Grooveshark I have tons of questions
about intellectual property like how's
this even legal how do the bands get
paid they collect royalties how do the
songs get uploaded does an artist can I
take my songs down what are my rights as
a listener or as an artist what effect
are sites like this having on the music
industry basically I brainstorm until
I've got a topic that I'm interested in
that's related to the course and this
contemporary Grooveshark and
intellectual property fits the bill but
if it didn't I'd keep brainstorming
until I
topic that works for me another strategy
I use sometimes is to read the news and
see if there are topics related to the
course that I could write about for
example before the election there was
tons of news coverage about the digital
platforms of the different political
parties or I could learn more about
WikiLeaks it's always in the add lines
using the news as a starting point I'd
brainstorm the same way that is above
after I've got my topic I update my time
sheet for now I'll take these ideas and
make a rough outline for my post the
outline is what guides my research in my
blog the better my outline the better my
blog will be research shows that
students who have formalized organized
deadlines produce the highest quality
work first
alright on the topic Grooveshark and
intellectual property this isn't going
to be the title I blog I'll come up with
that later but for now remembering my
goal of having at least three
subheadings in my post I refer to my
brainstorming session and come up with
some possible headings now this list
didn't just magically appear what you
didn't see is the humming and hawing
writing and revising I did off-camera
there was no magic just persist an
effort but that effort paid off and now
I have a rough sketch of my post it's
probably going to get updated as I go
but it'll guide my research which is the
next step in the process notice that I
haven't said anything about my
introduction or conclusion yet how can I
write my introduction when I don't even
know what my finished paper is going to
look like it's usually the last thing
that I write
so before I start my research I'm going
to go back to my time sheet and write
down my progress writing down when I
worked and what I worked on is one of
the best ways to get things done because
it holds me accountable I also write
down distractions like texting and
YouTube as well as my work environment
so that I can realize how I work in
different conditions okay on to the
research I'm not going to bore you and
make you watch me do my research but
I'll give you some pointers you can
start at Wikipedia but don't try to
write a Wikipedia article Wikipedia is
for knowledge telling in your blog you
should try and synthesize information
give your own thoughts on what you've
researched also don't repeatedly link to
Wikipedia it's a common mistake and
shows a lack of research step head to
the source for me I'll go to the
Grooveshark website and dig around there
for information later if I need to know
about copyright law in Canada I'll just
look up the bill google it
make sure your sources are credible and
of high quality a good question to ask
yourself is does the content of this
site pass by an editor before I read it
if so it's probably high quality source
if not how can you establish that the
author has any credibility are they a
professional are they respected in their
field take good notes as I research I'm
making notes in the various sections of
my outline including the source of the
information I also update my outline is
necessary because as I get more
information I have more ideas and more
questions and the focus with my blog
becomes sharper ok I've finished the
large chunk of my research I've got my
sources
I've made detailed notes under each
section and I've been monitoring my
progress towards my goals next I have to
write my draft like I said before I'm
going to fill in the bulk of my post
before I write my introduction and
conclusion because I need to know what
my post is about before I can write them
so section by section I write my draft
again to prevent extreme boredom I'm not
going to make you watch me write my
draft but I'll tell you roughly what I
do I start by setting goals for each
section next I read over all the notes I
have in each section and I start to
rearrange them and write sentences often
I have a hard time making sentences flow
when this happens I just force myself to
write something down because I know this
is only a draft and I'm going to come
back and revise it later now you might
think I'm crazy but the whole time I'm
doing this I'm talking to myself out
loud asking myself questions and giving
myself encouragement we can convince
ourselves of anything and you should
choose to convince yourself that you can
instead of you can't that might be the
most important thing in this entire
video finally while I'm writing I'm
constant
monitoring my progress I read them the
time what I worked on time I spent off
task distractions and positive
evaluations of my progress after I
finished the draft of the sections I go
back and I read the introduction and
conclusion many hours later my first
draft is complete after finishing my
draft
I'm way too attached to it to make any
objective revisions so I'm going to
sleep on it the next day with a fresh
mind i revise my blog revision is much
more than just proofreading in fact
proofreading is the last step of the
revision process I start by looking at
my post as a whole does the order make
sense if not I rearrange chunks of my
text once I'm satisfied with the order I
start looking at each of the sections
more carefully there are good guidelines
you can use to make sure your sections
are in good shape like tree and dare I
don't have time to discuss them in depth
here but they're useful to make sure
that each section is structurally sound
finally I drill down into the paragraphs
and sentences diagnosing problems and
operating on the ones that aren't up to
snuff once I've identified a problem I
can then choose the appropriate course
of action after I'm done all of this I
go back through and add any supporting
materials like pictures charts diagrams
and movies to add value to my post I
never add things just to add things they
have to add value the final step in the
process is proofreading I carefully
reread my post to make sure I've crossed
my T's and dotted my eyes after I'm done
I got a friend to read it over and give
me critical feedback once I've
integrated their feedback I go through
and self mark my blog against the rubric
and make any final revisions and that's
it that's how I write a blog I really
hope you found this video helpful and
that you take away some useful
strategies that you would accord into
your writing process work hard and have
fun
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