Composing in the Past

Hello to all who would so choose to give my amateur writing a glance. In this post, I will recollect how I used to compose in the past.

I'm sure there is a specific quote that concisely and eloquently voices what I am about to write, but I would rather not spend the time "googling" it, as I'm sure there are multiple quotes that proclaim the same basic truth. That truth being, that one will never understand who he is and how he got to be where he is until he is willing to recognize the past from which he came.

I would like to be the first to say that my process of composition in the past was sub-par to say the least. Throughout middle and high school, I would find a way to slap down a bucket full of words that somehow or another made some sense and acquired a reasonably good grade. Generally this would be done late at night on the eve of the assignment's due date. Ironically, this blog post in itself is a composition assignment that is being completed in the wee hours of the morning. However, a blog doesn't warrant the same amount of professional compositional process as, say, a research paper does. In the days of my compositional incompetence, I would generally have a very limited preparation time and produce only one draft. Of course, I was still able to get by while using this "strategy," although I never succeeded to the level that I was capable of.

Now that I have turned a new page in life, I truly hope that I will do what it takes to compose worthwhile papers. I am well aware of the importance of rhetorical skills to people of every career choice. Even as an engineer, I will need to develop my abilities to compose and employ good rhetorical skills in order to be successful in my field of choice.