1. 4 Philosophies of Composition and the Recursive Writing Process
ENG III AP/TJC
Mr. Varvel

2. 4 Philosophies of Composition
Subject (Mimetic)
TEXT
(Formalist)
Audience (Rhetorical)
Writer (Expressive)

3. The Recursive Writing Process
Planning (Prewriting)
Drafting
Revising
Designing
Publication

4. Planning (Prewriting)
Strategies to find and formulate ideas and information
Invention Techniques
Freewriting/Focused Freewriting
Listing
Brainstorming
Clustering/Mapping
Interviewing
Reading

5. Drafting Discovery Draft (Rough Draft)
Exploring possibilities of subject, audience, purpose
Hypothesis
Thesis

6. 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

7. Designing Typeface/Font Graphics Color & Whitespace Proximity
Alignment
Repetition
Contrast
Headings

8. Recursive Writing Process
Planning Drafting Revising Designing Publication