Sketching in the Raw?

A raw sketch--is there such a thing? Now, the statement sketching in the raw takes on a meaning I hadn't thought about at first: sitting in a room in your birthday suit to write or to draw a sketch. . . . Of course, when I wrote that question, that wasn't what I was thinking. I was thinking about what to sketch and if there was really a raw sketch. A raw sketch, to me, is not knowing what you are going to sketch, not picking an item, just sitting down with a blank idea to write, like a free write. A raw sketch is a free write, right? Can a sketch be an argument with yourself? I could sketch about my fiance sleeping, my son's red car, the piece of trouble van I have, the for walls that surround me where I sit now. A sketch is about any single thing, moment, place, and so on and so on. Is sketching about a thought? Yes. Why can it not be. A sketch of my thought. What brought me here is the upcoming reading for my students. I've been attempting to find a way to use sketching as a tool for composing an argument paper. Can sketching be used? Sketch the argument. Sketch the subject. Sketch those involved with the subject. Sketch the area where the subject manner began as an argument. How can I show a sketch as a useful tool outside of writing a story? Did I use sketching to write academic essays? What is a sketch? Can the mini sections written for an essay be called a sketch. I often found myself writing different parts of an essay to find where I was going with my argument. I guess I did sketch. Does the writing world call that sketching or is sketching only for the story? No, it isn't for the story alone. Now, I ask, is an outline a sketch? I see sketching as detailed, finding the nitty-gritty of the place, thing, moment, etc. That is what I'm doing here right now.

My mind just jumped to Vincent. This blog started as an outlet for me to keep writing. Slowly it fell off as I found it more and more difficult to write about anything. I recall the hospital hall clearly because I did do a sketch. HEY! Sketching helps bring focus and allows for memory to have more clarity. Maybe this piece should be called Rambling Sketching. So, sketching is the raw is possible if I understand this process I just did, here, right now. Is a raw sketch a thought, the internal self of thinking about a question or situation? I think that is called brainstorming. I was brainstorming here. Where can I make this into a sketch? A raw sketch is writing the moment of writing as if viewing a surrounding or a person. A sketch about sketch is what--a raw sketch? Did I make up a term just to write?

Back to my thought: is sketching used in academic essay writing? Does this tool have the importance needed to make a big deal out of it for class? It is a very useful tool for the very first essay: Literacy Narrative--How Reading and Writing Experiences Established My Thoughts on Reading and Writing. The nitty-gritty of place in writing is. . . ? A person can sketch his / her thoughts about a subject. Don't argue about the thoughts, just write them down as "view" them. What does a person see? Make sure to step outside yourself once the thoughts are down. What comes out of those words that were written out on a piece of paper or typed out on the screen of a computer? Observe what is there, and observe the process. Sketching is "observing." I think I just answered the questions I have been asking. The answer is OBSERVATION.