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This guide outlines the five essential steps of the writing process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing. Prewriting focuses on organizing thoughts and ideas, utilizing graphic organizers to capture key concepts. Drafting involves compiling ideas into cohesive sentences and paragraphs, emphasizing selectivity in content. Revising is about refining clarity and flow, while Editing corrects grammar and punctuation errors. Finally, Publishing entails presenting a polished copy of your work. Follow these steps to enhance your writing skills effectively.
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The Writing Process 1.5.5C
There are five steps in the writing process.
Prewriting Drafting Revising Editing Publishing
Prewriting- Getting your thoughts down on paper. A way of getting your thoughts down on paper that allows you organize your thoughts and ideas Graphic Organizers -
How does it feel? Weight? Special Features? Mysterious object Shape? Size?
Drafting- Putting your ideas and thoughts together in sentences and paragraphs
Drafting Tips • Be selective in the ideas that you include. You don't have to include everything that was in your prewriting! Pick your best ideas and make sure they relate to each other and your topic. • WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! Don’t stop once you start writing. Revising and editing will come later. Just let the ideas flow. • Don't count words, ask your teacher how long it should be or when it is done. When YOU feel that you have completed your ideas, you are then ready to go to the next stage. • HOLD IT! Before going to the next stage, make sure you have enough content to work with. If you feel that you are lacking content, go back to your prewriting for more ideas and details.
Revising is . . . • picking places where your writing could be clearer, more interesting, more informative and more convincing • making decisions about how you want to improve your writing • looking at your writing from a different point of view
Questions to Guide the Revising Process Adding What else does the reader need to know? Rearranging Is the information in the most logical and most effective order?
Editing includes . . . • spelling • capitalization • punctuation • grammar • sentence structure • subject/verb agreement
Editing Tips • Be sure that every sentence has two parts :subject (who or what) predicate (what's happening) • Use sentence combining words: and, but, or, yet, so, who, whom, which, that, whose, because, although, when, if, where and others • Use periods and commas where necessarybut do not overuse. • Do not overuse the exclamation mark!
Publishing- rewriting a neat copy of your written piece and presenting this written piece to the class