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The Writing Process

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

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The Writing Process

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  1. The Writing Process Notes and activities for success.

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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…

  6. Prewriting: Narrowing and Exploring a Topic • Organizing Information • List things you wish to discuss, experiment with rearranging the order

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Editing and Proofreading: Proofreading Marks http://www.espressographics.com/files/proofread.pdf

  12. 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

  13. Things to Remember: Pre-write Draft Revise Edit Publish

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