4 Philosophies of Composition and the Recursive Writing Process ENG III AP/TJC Mr. Varvel
4 Philosophies of Composition Subject (Mimetic) TEXT (Formalist) Audience (Rhetorical) Writer (Expressive)
The Recursive Writing Process Planning (Prewriting) Drafting Revising Designing Publication
Planning (Prewriting) Strategies to find and formulate ideas and information Invention Techniques Freewriting/Focused Freewriting Listing Brainstorming Clustering/Mapping Interviewing Reading
Drafting Discovery Draft (Rough Draft) Exploring possibilities of subject, audience, purpose Hypothesis Thesis
Revising Global Local (Specific or Sentence-level) Content Ideas Examples Explanations Organization Structure/Order of ideas Local (Specific or Sentence-level) Grammar Spelling Punctuation Mechanics
Designing Typeface/Font Graphics Color & Whitespace Proximity Alignment Repetition Contrast Headings
Recursive Writing Process Planning Drafting Revising Designing Publication