Other Writing

I am almost finished with a series of six weekly papers in my GISAT (problem solving) class. My writing in these papers is completely different from what I have been writing in this class. Each week I am assigned an article to read and write about. The assignment is to analyze the article and draw a conclusion about what the author's theses is, and then I defend that theses using two other articles that I find. Also, I find three other articles with alternative viewpoints on the same subject and use these to defend my point by comparing them to the main article's viewpoint. In GWRTC, the writing, so far, has been personal writing using personal anecdotes and describing how I felt in certain situations. This is clearly very different than GISAT, and with a different type of writing comes a different process. I have never been someone who has greatly benefited from prewriting, so I normally just start writing and organize what I have at the end for this class. In this personal writing, I am trying to put memories down on the paper in a way that the lets the audience identify with the story. "Story" is another keyword in this comparison because my personal writing is meant to be a story, while my critical writing is a collection of research leading to a main point. My process for GISAT starts differently because I have to do some learning before I have anything to write about. I first have to read the article, find its meaning, and find and read five more articles. Once I have gleaned enough information from these, I can begin writing. From here, the two types of writing may look different, but they are similar in the way that I can just write based on the knowledge that I have.