The past two sessions we have had on Academic Writing have been a great learning curve for me. I have always enjoyed English Literature and getting lost in a book and I am happy to sit and write blogs and stories in almost a poetic manner, however there is something slightly daunting about writing an essay to a tick box academic format, when coming from a creative industry where we express our words through movement. Free writing was something which resonated with me as I feel this is something I do naturally when writing. I am not a 'planner' and much prefer to sit with a blank page and see where my mind takes me rather than to bullet point and notate beforehand. I realise this isn't always the best method as it can be crucial to plan, but I think that free writing would be a great tool for me to use as a form of planning, to see where my essay will start to take me. The SQ3R method Peter talked us through was also very insightful. For example, I realised when scannin...