"The Writing Process"

Behrens suggests that there are six stages of writing when writing a good paper. First you must understand the task, meaning to understand the purpose. You must then gather data. This means to get you information. He then says its times for invention. You must invent you paper but maybe using  lists, outlines, or free-writing. The you draft, meaning you start writing your rough copy. Then you revise and edit. You pretty much make your paper sound good and have someone proof read it. My own style is very similar. The only things i change is the last two stages. When i write my rough draft i do not revise it until after i have someone edit it. Because my draft comes out the same way a revision would in Behrens stages. Personally, I find the invention stage to be the least important because it could easily be tied in with drafting. I have never really broken those two up before. The easiest part of a paper is the revision. After someone edits my paper i get all kinds of new ideas and i just go and work. I call it creating a whole new paper, even though its the same paper just revised and made better. However the most difficult part would be the gathering data. In my head i always know where i want to go with a paper, it is sometimes just hard to find information to support that goes with where my head wants the paper to go. So this kind of shows what i spend my time doing. I spend the most time researching for the paper, gathering data and such. And i spend the least amount of time actually writing the paper. This works really well for me i did pretty well in high school, writing papers. Though it could be really different now that I'm in college but i hope that i can stick to how I've done things for years and still turn out a good paper.