Persuasion Process Writing

Process Writing
At first I was really skeptical about what I wanted to write about for my Persuasive paper. I’m not sure that persuasive papers are my strong suit so when I found out that persuasion was our next topic, I panicked a bit. I was walking to class one morning when I spotted a poster on the wall in the hallway near the Technology Department. “Should there be limitations to free speech”? Immediately I knew what to write about. I thought it over for a bit and then took the poster down myself and held on to it for inspiration. Then I brainstormed and wrote down what came to mind. At first I was all for freedom of speech, but after hearing my boyfriends views about the matter and researching on the internet, I had a change of mind. I researched the meaning and started from there. The exercise of the grouping that Miss Stephanie wanted from us showed that I had more “cons” than “pro’s” over the issue. My first draft was pretty bad, I wasn’t very confident until I had Miss Stephanie share her insight on my paper and I rearranged the paragraphs to enhance the topic. Next I re-read my paper out loud to Julie and Lionel in class and felt pretty good about my paper. Took some mental notes on what to correct and re-drafted my paper. I added a few more sentences to my smaller paragraphs and a little bit more of my views on the whole matter and feel pretty satisfied with my free speech on free speech.