I've always preferred writing an outline before I begin drafting an essay. Outlines help me structure my writing, ensuring my thoughts are presented logically and support my thesis. Investing time up front makes the process of actually writing much faster, as everything is already organized. The times that I haven't written an outline, I've spent a lot of time trying to simultaneously organize my writing and write reasoned and meaninguful sentences, ultimately not performing either to the best of my ability. By writing an outline before I begin writing, I have been able to think about the order and flow, often streamling the revision and editing process.
For this course, one of our assignments was a worksheet for the Discourse Community Analysis. While not as structured as an outline, this worksheet gave me the opportunity to analyze the discourse community I'd chosen and then organize these thougths into an essay. Here are the worksheet and the final draft of the reslulting essay.
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