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Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process

Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process. Everyone has a writing process. What is yours?. Why do you need a writing process?. It can help writers to organize their thoughts. It can help writers to avoid frustration and procrastination.

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Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process

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  1. Finding Your Focus:The Writing Process

  2. Everyone has a writing process.What is yours?

  3. Why do you need a writing process? • It can help writers to organize their thoughts. • It can help writers to avoid frustration and procrastination. • It can help writers to use their time productively and efficiently.

  4. Writing process • Invention • Collection • Organization • Drafting • Revising • Proofreading

  5. Invention: coming up with your topic • Brainstorming: • Getting your ideas on paper so you can give yourself the widest range of topics possible

  6. Brainstorming: coming up with ideas that interest you Listing: Paper Topics Political apathy Animal abuse NFL instant replay Air pollution Telemarketing scams Internet censorship NBA salary caps Brainstorming

  7. Clustering: mapping out ideas Flag Burning Amend-ment sportsmanship First Amendment NBA salary caps Internet censorship ME animal abuse telemar- keting scams NFL instant replay three-party system political apathy

  8. Collection • Gathering ideas • Locating and evaluating research • Conducting interviews

  9. Organizing: putting information in an outline OUTLINE I. Introduction A. Grab attention B. State thesis II. Body A. Build points B. Develop ideas C. Support main claim III. Conclusion A. Reemphasize main idea I. II. III. Outline

  10. Drafting • Give yourself ample time to work on your project. • Find a comfortable place to do your writing. • Avoid distractions. • Take breaks.

  11. Revising: reviewing ideas • Review higher-order concerns: • Clear communication of ideas • Organization of paper • Paragraph structure • Strong introduction and conclusion

  12. Proofreading • Review later-order concerns: • Spelling • Punctuation • Sentence structure • Documentation style

  13. Proofreading tips • Slowly read your paper aloud. • Read your paper backwards. • Exchange papers with a friend. • NOTE: Spell check will not catch everything, and grammar checks are often wrong!

  14. The Writing Process: Find Your Focus • Invention • Collection • Organization • Drafting • Revising • Proofreading

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