Week 1 - Posting 1

One paper that I had written was a research paper that I did my junior year in high school. I was taking an English Literature class, so that paper topic had to be something that had to be linked to England or British. Being a very big Spice Girls fan when I was a child, and to be completely honest, still am, I decided to write my paper on this amazing girl band. At first the paper was really hard to get started because I was not accustomed to writing research papers, and the Spice girls proved to be a hard subject to find a book on with information about their history on when they were big and about their break-up. However, I pulled through and did really well on the paper. 

During the writing process of the paper on the Spice Girls, I found myself procrastinating a great deal with the different steps and found myself cramming to have certain parts of the paper done by the deadlines. At first, everything that I did was really unorganized and really hard to follow. Needless to say, it took my awhile to get everything together. When I was writing the paper, I had to be in my bedroom at home, with no interruptions. I could not seem to concentrate when music or the TV was on. I had a lot of difficulty with the concept of the research paper because I did not know what belonged where and what information was relevant to include.

The difference between editing and revising is very simple. I feel that editing needs to be done by someone else so that they can find mistakes that you may have missed. This is because the writer of a paper may just skim over it and read what they thought they had put but it really did not make any sense. Revising is done by the writer themselves. I believe that revising is when you look at your paper and decide that something does not belong or belongs somewhere else. I also think that revising can be done after a paper has been edited by another person.