My writing process so far....

Throughout the past couple of weeks I have been working hard to complete a perfected copy of my documentary summary on The Thin Blue Line. I have had to overcome several obstacles in order to perfect my writing and perfecting you own writing is something I have found to be quite difficult at times. I think, and have discovered overtime, that we as human beings view our work differently then others, but need others in order to get the right advice to advance in our writing process. So, overall this experience has made me a better writer, has made me alter my writing habits, and will allow my professional career to be made easier.

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To begin, this process has made me a better writer. When I wrote my first draft I do not think that I allotted myself the appropriate amount of time to make the best draft, but, nonetheless, I produced a workable first rough draft. I learned myself that my procrastination, which resulted in myself not allotting enough time to write the original draft to the fullest potential I could, was a large weakness that I had. Then, I really had some excellent growth after going to class and getting my paper examined in class. I was shown the many problems it had that I could not see as the author. I was shown how my MLA format was not correct, how my lack of double spacing negatively affected how my paper was viewed, how my paragraph creation and spacing needed work, and finally how I needed to add a small introduction of some kind in order to appropriately introduce my documentary, so that my audience knew what was going on. I took these issues and I went to work fixing them. I was able to appropriately fix my MLA format issues and my paragraph and spacing issues. This immediately made my paper easier to read and look at. Then, I added the introductory information and made a more complete and perfect draft, which was the goal from the start. All in all, I have become a better write due to the trials I have endured writing this summary.

Moving on, I think my experience with procrastination and the emphasis on using proper structure will help me in my professional career. In law enforcement you have to be ready to go at all times and cannot get off task or behind. You must be on time when doing reports and on point with writing down notes in the moment in order to get the information needed to do said reports. If I procrastinate I will not be able to advance positively in these areas. Further, writing in law enforcement has to be concise and structure has to be error free, so if I am aware of proper structure now it will only help me later. So, this experience will benefit me in my hopeful future career in law enforcement I think.

With the above said, there are things I would do differently now. I would make sure that I made time everyday to work on my summary originally instead of doing it all at once. I procrastinated and did not give myself the chance to make a complete and perfected draft. Further, I would take more time to examine the structure of my summary. I would make sure spacing, format, and paragraph separation were correct. This could have saved me time in the future and made my original draft look better and more perfected.