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Explore the essential steps of the writing process, from pre-writing to publishing, to improve your writing skills and produce polished work. Discover techniques for each stage, from generating ideas to finalizing your piece for publication.
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Why Process and Product? • Process and product writing issues balanced writing. • Process writing provokes thoughtful writing. • Product writing focuses on the final draft and what small corrections can be made.
Pre-writing • What is pre-writing? • When competing in a sport an athlete must warm-up and stretch prior to competition in order to perform at their highest potential. Much like warming up for an athlete, a writer (and we are all writers) must stretch their mind, get some ideas flowing and ready for use.
Pre-writing Ways to Pre-write: • REMEMBER: There is no one way to pre-write. • Observations in real life • Journal entries • Idea-Web • Create an outline
Rough Draft • How are you going to start your paper off? • How can you best grab your readers attention to hook them into the rest of your paper?
Rough Draft • What is going in the middle of your paper? • How are you going to organize your information? • How are you going to organize information inside your paragraphs?
Rough Draft • Summarize your information. • Restate your thesis in different words. • Give projections for the future. • Give some solutions.
Revise • This is where you go Global! • Look only at information that affects the whole text: • Organization • Is there one thread that ties the whole paper together? • Are there any parts that seem unclear or need more information? • Is your voice coming through? • Have others read your paper!
Edit • This is where we deal with the local issues of your paper. • Look at things within the text that are smaller (or local) issues: • Grammar • Transitions • Spelling • Punctuation
Publish • This is the last step. • Make sure everything looks clean. • Margins • Grammar • Last minute touch-ups • If you are publishing, make sure to send it in the correct format. • Way to go! You just completed your paper!