Everyday Writer Chapter 7---Andrea A. Lunsford

     The Everyday Writer provides a great resource for students as it presents information to aide in the writing process. I found the most important and most interesting part to be about developing a thesis. It was nice to be reassured that the thesis can be flexible and change as you begin to develop and write your paper. Through the thesis, it is important to focus on a main point that will be present throughout the paper, but that does not mean it can't be modified as new ideas may flow as you work through the writing process. Flexibility is necessary in writing as sometimes it may be tough to change ideas that you have already gotten down on paper through a rough draft. Flexibility does not necessarily only mean through the thesis; it can be present through prewriting, planning, and even the organization present throughout the paper. Through flexibility in these steps in preparing and writing a paper as well as through the resources present, one can continue to edit their paper to create a very clear, strong analytical paper. It is important to use books such as The Everyday Writer because they do help create ideas in establishing a more well thought out paper through enhancing the writing process.