An auto-ethnography on my writing style and how i can fix it

Introduction

Writing is a complex, recursive process that is subject to false starts, trial and error, and constant revision. Drafting and revising, self- and peer editing, and review are valuable means of improving text. Writing is no longer regarded as a tiered skill, moving from smaller to larger pieces. Research suggests that information contained in a higher processing stage can influence the production of a lower stage, as well as vice versa.

The writing process is the series of sequential steps a writer or researcher follows to record experiences, observations, data, and research. The process of writing, by definition, suggests an ongoing commitment to editing, multiple revisions, self-reflection, and the development of characters, scenes, and findings. While the writing process references the journey between producing and revising a text, it also involves the events leading up to writing and the closing stages that follow. This entry focuses on the writing process as a series of steps leading toward progress in qualitative research projects. The process of writing follows a plan, although not always chronologically or deliberately, that begins with an idea and ends with a final product.

It took me many years of English and writing classes before I realized that I was making writing much harder than it needed to be. Eventually, after enough years of classes and practice at writing, I realized that the keys to writing are simply observation and description. In order to write about a situation, first I have to observe the situation and notice all the details, especially the trivial things that stick in my mind, because they do not fit the situation. Once I realized that writing was just telling someone what I had seen or felt and then going back and cleaning up what I ...