The Writing Process
By: Gabi B, Eva F, Kaitlin E , Audrey F, Aoife K, & Kathy M
1) Pre-Writing
Breaking down the task
How to start:
- Create a plan of how you will create it
- Plan time to work on your pre-writing/breaking down the task
- Don't worry about every grammatical mistake at the beginning
- Then cut out the bad parts
- Who are you writing to?
- What information do you need to inform them about?
- Rhetorical questions to answer
- Keeping the audience engaged
Ways to help the pre-writing:
- Summarizing
- Analyzing
- Narrating
- Responding
- Persuading
- Observing
- Investigating
- Thinking map
Brainstorming
Discusses techniques to help you write a paper
-You’ll need to brainstorm when you do not know anything about the topic
-Also You’ll need to brainstorm when you are overwhelmed with information on the subject
Techniques:
-Freewriting
-Listing/Bulleting Different ideas
-3 Perspectives
-Consider purpose and audience
-Thinking outside the box
-Journalistic Questions- Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?Outlining
Reason to outline:
Helps you organize the process of writing
Presents ideas in a logical form
Purpose of your paper
Develop thesis
How to do this:
List all ideas
Group together related ideas
Order material into subsections from general to specific or abstract to concrete
Create main and sub headings
2) Drafting
Once you have planned out your ideas, the next step is to start drafting.
While drafting you should concentrate on organizing your information logically and developing your topic with detail.
Think about who and what you are writing for make sure your purpose is clearly shown throughout your writing piece.
- Our brain processes information as we write things down. You will find yourself making connections and discovering new ideas as you are writing your first drafts
3) Revising
Steps to do While Revising
Looking at something to find a critical perspective
Reconsidering the paper
Reviewing your paper (evidence, purpose, presentation)
Fresh view of your paper/presentation
When you have a fresh view you will review everything more precisely
be honest with yourself
Make sure everything is in proportion
takes more than a few minutes
It follows with your thesis (for a paper)
Transitions are smooth
Make sure it is appropriate for the assignment
- Make sure your introduction is clear
4) Editing
- Have a quiet working place
- Take breaks
- Change style of text (font, color, size, ext.)
- Edit content, overall structure, paragraph structure, clarity, style, citations
- Do NOT rely on grammar or spelling check
- Circle ALL punctuation
- Proofread multiple times
- Come up with a personal editing system
Editing Checklist
Read out loud and see where exactly to pause for periods, question marks, exclamation marks, & commas.
Quotation marks are put where they are required.
Check for capitalisation.
Nouns that are proper began with Capital letters.
Sentences must contain complete thoughts with nouns and verbs.
There must NOT be any run- on sentences.
5) Publishing
- Show the group the final product
- Print the final product
- Submit electronically on the internet your final product
- Share it with many people to get it out there
- Give your final product to magazines, contest, companies, etc.