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Unlock your writing potential with comprehensive insights into the writing process. Explore techniques for finding topics through self-inventory, free writing, and brainstorming. Delve into narrowing down ideas, understanding audience and purpose, and drafting effectively. Enhance your work with constructive peer feedback and revising strategies while focusing on clarity, organization, and voice. Finally, master the art of editing and choose the best publishing format, whether traditional or digital. Embrace each stage to become a confident writer.
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The Writing Process Notes and activities for success.
Prewriting: Finding a Topic • Self-Inventory • Interesting, funny, weird, annoying experiences • Favorite ways to spend time • Most interesting or controversial person you know • Societal and community issues of interest to you • What things fascinate, confuse, trouble, and surprise you • What area(s) are you an expert in?
Prewriting: Finding a Topic • Free writing • Writing whatever comes to mind • After writing for set time, circle the ideas that you like • Choose a couple of ideas and free write about them • Also called stream of consciousness writing
Prewriting: Narrowing and Exploring a Topic • Focus on a topic • Creating a cluster topic • Word web • Bubble map • Identifying Audience and Purpose • To whom am I writing? • Why am I writing? • Persuade • Tell a story/Narrative • Describe • Explain
Prewriting: Narrowing and Exploring a Topic • Developing a Topic • Informative • How many? • How much? • What kind? • Who, what, when, where, why, how • Imaginative • What would happen if…
Prewriting: Narrowing and Exploring a Topic • Organizing Information • List things you wish to discuss, experiment with rearranging the order
Drafting: Types of Drafting • Drafting from a plan • Compose from a specific plan or list • Drafting to discover • Begin writing and just go where it takes you, usually has twists and turns
Revising: Using Peer Response As the writer you should… As the reader you should… • Ask the reader specific questions • Use only the suggestions that make sense to you • Encourage the reader to be honest • Listen politely and be open minded • Offer specific feedback • Give positive comments first • Be sensitive of the writer’s feelings • Carefully consider the writer's feelings
Revising: Using Peer Response • Group Response • Two or more readers review your work to offer differing points of view. • One-on-One Response • You and a classmate analyze the piece together. Remember that your partner’s comments are suggestions. As the writer, you are responsible for the final decisions. • E-mail Partner • Same as One-on-One except by e-mail.
Revising: Evaluating your draft • Ideas and content: clear, focused and well-supported. • Organization: arrange ideas in a logical manner. • Voice: express ideas that shows your individual style. • Word Choice: choose precise, powerful, and engaging words. • Sentence Fluency: improve flow by varying sentence length. • Conventions: grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Editing and Proofreading: Proofreading Marks http://www.espressographics.com/files/proofread.pdf
Publishing • Print Media • Written or typed • Posted on bulletin board • Publisher document • Electronic • E-mail • PowerPoint • Web Page/Blog • Performance • Dramatic reading • Broadcast • Music/Acting
Things to Remember: Pre-write Draft Revise Edit Publish