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The Writing Process

This educational guide outlines the stages of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. It provides tips and strategies for each stage, as well as ideas for creating a writer's plan and incorporating technology into the publishing process.

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The Writing Process

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  1. The Writing Process Abell & Atherton Educational Consulting, Inc.

  2. Prewriting • Talking (sharing ideas, discussion of topic and their views, role-playing, persuasion, etc.) • Reading and analyzing models (backmapping, analysis of format and development, etc.) • Brainstorming • Mapping • Planning • Webbing • Story boarding, etc. • Creating a writer’s plan, which considers audience, purpose, format, and ideas • Researching

  3. Drafting • Modeling • Use • Other students’ writing • Professional writing • Your writing • Provide ample time and space to write • Provide tools to make drafting more fun and easier (post it notes, gel pens, tape, scissors, etc.) • Conference with students throughout • Remind students of the importance of treating drafting as a step separate from editing

  4. Revising • Help students to learn to try a new approach if the one they’ve tried isn’t working. • Make sure all the anticipated needs of the audience are met for the particular purpose/ text. • Model each revision strategy using your own work; then send students back to revise their own. • Have revision conferences in which students come to you with a question • Use sentence combining to build complex sentences • Use ARMS to help writers understand what “revision” means

  5. ARMS • Add – (details, snapshots, dialogue, examples, etc.) • Remove – (distractors, unnecessary dialogue, details that don’t fit, weak ideas) • Move – (words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs) • Substitute – (more powerful words, stronger verbs for adverbs)

  6. Editing • Model and practice editing together • Use students’ own work as good models or as drill for sentence error correction • Teach editing skills throughout the year • Give students self-editing checklists • Set up editing groups, with an “expert” in charge of each main focus (Capitalization, punctuation, etc.) • Use sentence combining exercises for editing as well as revising skills. • Have editing conferences, focusing on only one correctness issue at a time • Use CUPS

  7. CUPS • Capitalization • Usage • Punctuation • Spelling

  8. Publishing • Technology and the internet (Blogs, webcasts, web pages, etc.) • Exchange writing with other classes and students • Read to principal • Display on community or school bulletin board • Author’s chair • Mail or e-mail • Newsletters • Media center • Pop-up or blank books for the school library • Pen pals • Gifts “If you give writers only one thing, give them an audience.” Peter Elbow

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