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How to Write Your Best Paper: Discovering and Refining Your Writing Process

How to Write Your Best Paper: Discovering and Refining Your Writing Process. Presented by Judith M. Davis, Director Writing Technology Laboratory Student Support Services October 30, 2002. Understand that writing is an individual, recursive process . Planning Prewriting Organizing

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How to Write Your Best Paper: Discovering and Refining Your Writing Process

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  1. How to Write Your Best Paper:Discovering and Refining Your Writing Process Presented by Judith M. Davis, Director Writing Technology Laboratory Student Support Services October 30, 2002

  2. Understand that writing is an individual, recursive process • Planning • Prewriting • Organizing • Drafting • Revising • Editing • Proofreading

  3. Planning • Think! • Analyze the assignment • Requirements • Topic • Purpose • Audience • Research • Preliminary • Topic focused

  4. Prewriting • List • Brainstorm • Cluster/mind-map/web • Freewrite • Outline

  5. Organizing • Outline important ideas from prewriting • Structure a thesis • Plan primary and secondary support

  6. Drafting • Just do it! Write without editing • Consider opening strategies • “Hook” the reader • State the thesis • Forecast the direction of the essay • “Layer” the paragraphs • Topic sentence • Primary support • Secondary support

  7. Leave a strong final impression • Restate thesis • Sum-up key ideas • Make a concluding statement

  8. Revising • “Re-see” your essay • Check organization • Ensure sufficient development • Examine use of sources • Build smooth transitions • Order • Repetition of key ideas • Use of transitional expressions • Evaluate opening and closing

  9. Editing • Read aloud • Read for trouble • Read backwards

  10. Proofreading • Read for new errors • Read backwards to re-check spelling • Check formatting

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