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How to write neatly on paper without looking at it?

How can I write without knowing exactly what I want to say?

  • *Sorry to those who wrote answers already. I had to leave before I finished the additional comments section. I appreciate your answers, they are great.* I write often regarding personal communications, or when I have something to say. I find it especially easy to write about subjects that I love. However, when I had assigned papers in college, or now when I have to write something like a cover letter, while it would sometimes go at a normal pace, other times it would take extremely long. My method for writing a paper might look something like this: Be stuck. Try to write some various things regarding different parts of the paper. Make chunks of an outline. Write some of what may be paragraph three. Write some of another random paragraph . Have some ideas that would fit earlier in paragraph one. That changes how I think about what goes in two... etc. Do a lot of writing a few sentences here and there, deleting adding and start over. Get fed up and try starting over from the beginning using the "just write" method, and write double the length of the paper to get all my ideas out. Look at what I've written to try to analyze all the common patterns. Rewrite with some structure, while plagiarizing from my large rewrite. Find out how that doesn't work or make sense. Start over. Have something decent, edit a bunch, turn it in. Very, very late. When I had to write English papers it was very difficult because as I would collect all the evidence and write about it, I would find many more connections that would change my thesis. What I'm looking for is first a diagnosis of what my problem is, so that I know how to describe it to people, and second, resources on how to write that I can use to help myself.

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    Ah. I see now after you specified your question. So I'm just gonna describe my experience here.  As a teacher, i usually use Bloom's taxonomy to help my students in composing the structure of their writings. This might not be the best method as there should be several different other methods to try out there. But what I am trying to say is, maybe it will help a lot for you to generally make a list of questions in the hierarchy which will show different levels of in-depth thinking. I usually starts with a list of keywords and their definitions, including descriptions of particular topic. Then I will go deeper with examples, classifying groups, seek for illustrations to support the information, then go deeper with composing my own arguments, analysis based on the information i have collected before. Evaluation, ideas, suggestions using owns perspectives are welcome here as well. Then wrap them up in a short summary or reflection. Hope that helps though i cannot diagnose anything rather than having an unclear idea about the focus of your writing.

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Why start anything with an uncertain outcome in life? Look, no one knows how it's going to come out. You just kind of vomit forth a nebulous mass and then attempt to bend it to your will. With enough burnishing, it might make sense to others. They might even enjoy it. (And hey, taming the beast is way more enjoyable than giving birth to it.) Don't fool yourself into thinking the pros have some secret formula -- they don't. They've just learned to embrace the discomfort, to hurl themselves at it every day with reckless abandon. The only secret they know is that if they don't do it -- if they don't step off the cliff every day and try to build a parachute on the way down -- the page stays empty. “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” -- Kurt Vonnegut The person who sits down to write and knows exactly how it's going to end isn't a writer at all. Don't fear anything except the empty page.

Timothy Gritzman

Part of the act of writing is communicating with yourself. A good way to get started on an essay is to write down everything you can think about the subject first. Let it have no structure: even a set of bullet points is better than nothing. As you write more and more about the subject, a structure should emerge in your mind. Then take a clean sheet of paper and write down the structured thoughts. If you don't know enough about the subject to do the first step, then you need to learn more about it or concentrate on a smaller part of the whole. Pirsig suggested if a city is too big, write about one street, if that is too much focus on one building, if that's too large focus on a single brick of the building. At some point, you will find yourself with a pile of concepts to then cast into a coherent essay. "Don't fear anything except the empty page." —

Matt Wartell

Use writing service like http://essaywritinghere.com/ or essay database. For example http://essaydb.net/

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