I feel that my recursive writing process is very common with most people. The first step I feel that works best for me is when I am reading a text, I will mark up the text and try to make connections with it. This helps me gain insight on what the author is truly trying to convey in his piece of work. I will sometimes also summarize a paragraph if it is important to the reading. Summarizing helps you remember what you just read for future reference. The second step is my favorite brainstorming strategies. What works best for me is making a detailed outline. Making a detailed outline puts everything in order of what you are going to talk about and what material you will be using during your essay. The detailed outline is the hard part, while the essay is actually the easy part to write because you already have your ideas written down. The third step is my favorite drafting strategies. Truly, I don’t have any drafting strategies, I feel like I just write all my ideas down and try and make my rough draft as good as possible so I won’t need to do many revisions. The fourth step is the revision strategies. My favorite revision strategy is the peer review workshops. It gives me insight on what I need to work on and what I do really well in my writing. Also reviewing others writing style and looking at their ideas can create new ideas that I can write in my essay. The last step is the polishing strategies. In order to polish your paper, re-read your essay and make sure there is no grammatical errors and that everything in your paper flows nicely. 

I believe that I can apply these steps of my favorite recursive writing process to any draft paper in the future even outside of English Composition. These steps can help with any draft because it is very general in how to compute a good essay. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lab report or a research paper. You can always use these steps of analyzing, brainstorming, and revising to make a piece of literature better.