Writing Process

• Writing Process

  Preperation -> Modeling -> Generating Ideas -> Focusing on a topic -> Outlining -> Drafting -> Feedback -> Revising -> Editing -> Publishing
• Preperation

  Establishes purpose

  specify your persona

  Informs the character, interest, background, and preferences of your target audience
• Modeling

  A process wherein the writer looks at different works which are similar in nature w/ the paper they are about to write

  analyzes the features such as organization, structure, and language of the sample text
• What are the 3 different ways of generating ideas?

  brainstorming, free writing, clustering
• brainstorming

  listing of many ideas w/o censoring them
• free writing

  free flowing of ideas and writing them down in sentences
• clustering

  using of virtual representation to show connections between ideas
• Focusing on a topic

  narrowing down a general topic -> specific one

  think og questions related to the specific purpose

  answers the questions with at least 2 details
• Drafting

  Focuses of the content and the organization not the grammar and mechanics

  build credibility by using reliable and valid sources

  excercise the caution and critical thinking in using the info. from those sources
• Feedback

  impornant component of the writing process

  response to the written work which focuses on all aspects

  focuses more on the content, structure, organization, and clarity of the message
• Classifications of feedback

  self, peer, and teacher
• Revising

  act of improving the original paper by applying changes based on feedback
• Editing

  focuses on grammar and language use while proofreading

  focuses on typography and mechanics

  use standardized editing symbols/proofreading marks
• Publishing 


  showcasing your work to others by publishing it
• Outlining


  2 or 3 main ideas can be fleshed out of this method

  use topic sentence or paragraph outline