I chose the fifth SLO, Use effective strategies for prewriting, composing and revising, because along with learning to read critically this objective concerns me the most. In Mary Pipher’s essay Diving in--- Getting  Started, (75), she discusses how writing a first draft, paying attention to details, conquering your demons and freewriting are effective strategies for prewriting. In discussing the importance of writing a first draft, Pipher states “We give ourselves permission to write lousy first drafts. For most writers, it is easier to improve writing than to get it right the first time.”. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was a product of a first draft. Pipher’s essay Swimming Alone--- The Writing Process (110), she describes the process of composing. In the section titled, Voyage to Discovery (112), she describes writing as the process of “discovering new territory” (112) and states “In a sense, all writing is travel writing. We are saying to our readers, Come with me to a place I have seen, or, Discover new territory with me, or, I an new in town, and, wow, this is quite a place.” (112).she details how the use of feelings, conversations or experiences can be part of the process. But she warns against the sensation, “This is so hood. I should save it for later. I never do that now.”. She reasons “good ideas beget good ideas”. She describes how to Advance an Argument (114) by sharing the “circumstances” (114) that led to it’s investigation and by using highly respected arguments of others. She concludes the essay by discussing Original Thoughts, the use of Metaphors and how to Organize Paper. She describes the process of revision in Cooling Down--- Revising. In this essay she discusses the value of revision as a creative and engaging process through the analogy of “planting” (149) a garden as the process of writing and “pruning and weeding” (149) as the creative process. She discusses the need to walk away before evaluating your writing as a way to put yourself in the readers shoes. She explains how reading aloud can expose your flaws such as sounding “pretentious, clunky, hyperbolic, repetitious or gassy”. (151). Reading aloud to an audience can also help you gauge reactions to your writing. Allowing other people to read your writing can open questions and expose new ideas to your writing. The power of revision, was evident in the recent discovery of a prior recording of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech by Professor Jason Miller in a North Carolina library, (Daily Mail, Nov. 17, 2015).