For the following writing self-audit, please be honest and thorough in your responses -- it is very beneficial to your growth as a writer to consider your artistic process. You will be reviewing this information later in the semester as you write your Writing Process Analytical Essay. Kindly answer all of the following questions and prompts. Please post your analysis in our WebCT whole-class discussion forum by the end of week one!

1. Where do most of your writing ideas come from?

2. How do you get started? Is it difficult to start a paper?

3. What keeps you going and/or what stops you?

4. Are you critical too early in the writing process? Do you have difficulty constructively criticizing your own writing?

5. Where are you when you write your best and what are you doing?

6. How much do you revise?

7. Do you write drafts in longhand, on a typewriter, at the computer?

8. Complete the following sentences and expand on each answer with a few additional sentences:

     For me, writing is like…
     For me, revising is like…
     For me, reading is like…