Seeing as the last class was the first time I have heard about these strategies, I cannot really say I have used any of them successfully in the past. Sure I wrote some papers when I was in high school but that was 6 years ago and I cannot recall if there were any strategies involved. The closest I can come is the paper I wrote about my views of the American education system. Looking at it again I think it resembles an argumentative strategy but that was not really in my mind at the time. When I write I do not think of strategies in the formal sense of this paper is going to be enumerative, or a cause/effect, or argumentative. I just write. I generally do not have a rough draft or any of the things that would probably make my paper that much better. I start out with an idea and let it bounce around my head for a while until I come up with the general idea of the paper (There are no prewriting exercises at this point either). I generally try to have an introductory paragraph that contains my main idea and the gist of the three supporting paragraphs which are to follow then a conclusion that restates my original idea with a mention of the supporting ideas. Then as I write the paper just unfolds under my fingers. Whether it turns out to resemble one of the strategies is either a subconscious thought or just luck.
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