"What is this for? Who is this for? What do I want to say? How can I best say it?: Chapter 3

Summary: Chapter 3 ( What does the process involve?) discusses several different ways people approach writing. In the beginning of the chapter, the author describes how the writing experience begins. For most writers, the atmosphere has to be right before the writing process can begin. The author mention specific detail about everything. For example if the writing were to take place in the morning, there would have to be a cup of coffee near by and if the it is done in the afternoons then, a diet soft drink would be preferred. There were also descriptions of the prewriting process, the actual writing process, and the rewriting processs, which in several instances the author related back to a rhetoric type writing, where the writing has an effect on the reader. There was also mention of other authors who gave their perspective on how the writing process takes place. For example, Karen Burke LeFevre, who arrange four perspectives on invention, Platonic- where invention if the private act of an individual, internal dialogic, collaborative, and collective, the final three involve an "other" in the creative process. There were two other authors that inserted good ideas about writng, John R. Hayes and Linda S. Flower. As defined in the book, "writing is a deliberate act; one has to make up one's mind to do it." In this chapter of the book, it focused on the actual writing process and what takes places inside a student's mind while developing a paper.

Response: As I read the chapter, I was definitely relating to most of the main points mentioned, especially about having my surroundings right when beginning the paper. When I begin writing, like to be in my room with the television on, however it has to be on mute. I always like some sort of drink near by also. Writing is not an easy task, because there are so many thoughts coming into the head at one time. I have to be comfortable, so that it would be a well-developed paper. As a future educator, in a class setting, I would want my students to feel like they can write freely, expressing themselves through opinions and fact. According to James A. Reither, " writing and what writers do during writing cannont be artifically seperated from the social-rhetorical situations in which writing gets done, from the conditions that enable writers to do what they do...' That is why we must reexamine what goes on in writng classes, what textbooks recommend, even what our own experiences as writers suggest..." There should be no limit to writing. It is not a job, but an expression.