1. Writing Process By: Sheena Liles

2. 5 Steps 1.Prewriting 2.Drafting 3.Revising 4.Editing 5.Publishing

3. Prewriting ▪ 1 st stage of the writing process (Planning) ▪ Using graphic organizers ▪ Research, gather and organize ideas ▪ Putting what’s on your mind on paper! ▪ Questions to consider: – Who is the audience? – What is the purpose? ▪ Prewriting Strategies: – Freewriting – Brainstorming – Clustering – Outlining

4. Clustering Outline

6. Drafting ▪ Writer organizes information into sentences and paragraphs. ▪ Don’t think about word count, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. ▪ “Rough Draft” ▪ Putting it ALL together!

7. Revising ▪ Sometimes summed up with the A.R.R.R. (Adding, Rearranging, Removing, Replacing) ▪ Reworking ▪ This is NOT editing! ▪ Questions to consider: – What else does the reader need to know? – Does the information flow well? – Does the information fit? – Would more vivid details help bring your piece to life? – Do you need to look for stronger examples and quotations to support your argument?

8. Editing ▪ Questions to consider: – Have you used the same word too many times in one sentence or paragraph? – Are any of your sentences hard to understand? – Which words could you cut to make a sentence stronger? – Are your sentences grammatically correct – Is everything spelled correctly? – Have you used punctuation marks correctly? ▪ Correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. ▪ Do NOT depend on spell checker! ▪ Proofreading symbols

10. Publishing ▪ Last step in the writing process. ▪ Final Copy! ▪ “Shared Copy” ▪ Ex: Posting on a blog, Facebook post, Published book, etc.

11. Works Cited: ▪ http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-writing-process/ http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-writing-process/