Writing Process of my Exploratory Essay

When thinking about the exploratory essay, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do. I've never taken an English or a writing course like this one before, so I panicked. Luckily, I remembered Mr. Wible saying that you don't HAVE to end up with the PW you initially wrote about in the essay. This calmed me down, so I brainstormed about what kind of PW interests me.

As I was trying to come up with something good, I found myself constantly going on the Internet to check whatever it was I thought was important at the time. Since MIX is my default page, I checked my e-mail a bunch of times until it hit me. I never EVER look at the news announcements on the MIX page until that day in the midst of my procrastination. As I started to scan the news, club announcements and job openings, I realized I never put one thought into what goes behind all of that preparation and publishing. I quickly jotted down some questions about it on a notebook page and then panicked again. "There is no way I can make this 3 pages," I thought.

I started thinking about other PW jobs around campus that I had never considered. As I was looking around my room at all of my WV stuff trying to have an idea sparked, my friend's little brother, who is a freshman at WVU, called me to catch up on things. He started talking to me about his classes and how he hated them and the stupid "awareness plays" his university 101 teacher was making him see, but I had to cut him off because he gave me two new ideas! I hung up the phone and started writing down more questions about the people who write those silly plays we are required to see as freshman, and how the course catalogue book was edited and even drafted.

Questions started flowing! I was really excited because not only did I have three jobs I could pick from, but they were all easily accessible since they were based on campus. After I had at least 6 questions for each PW, I started to write my paper and sure enough it made the cut!