1. English 0300 HCC – Katy Center Mrs. N. Puder
“The Writing Process”
English 0300
HCC – Katy Center
Mrs. N. Puder

2. Analyze Your Assignment
Length
Time Restraints
In-Class or Out
Sources
Purpose
Audience

3. (Purposes) Sometimes We Write:
To Express Feelings and Attitudes
To Persuade
To Give Pleasure
To Convey Information
To Inform
To Discover
To Analyze
To Debate
To Criticize
To Define
To Compare or Contrast
To Narrate/Describe
To Amuse

4. An Audience Is: The Intended Reader
Usually an Instructor or Other Students
When an Instructor is the Intended Audience, she expects:
Correct Grammar
Examples and Details
Unity
Coherence

5. The Writing Process Three Stages
Exploring
Developing
Revising and Editing

6. Exploring Think about your topic. Think about your audience.
Think about your purpose.
Try Exploring Strategies.

7. Exploring – Find a Subject; Gather Information
Focused Free writing
See page 10 in The Writer’s World.
5-15 Minutes of Concentrated, Nonstop Writing about Your Topic.
Then, Review What You Have Written.
Listing or Brainstorming
See page 11 in The Writer’s World.
A Way of Listing Information About Your Topic.

8. Exploring Continued Clustering See Page 12 in The Writer’s World.
Questioning - Asking Journalistic Questions (5Ws and H) (Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How)
See Page 11 in The Writer’s World.
Keeping a Journal
See Page 13 in The Writer’s World.

9. Developing Narrow your topic. Express your main idea.
Develop your supporting.
Make a plan or an outline.
Write your first draft.

10. Developing If writing a paragraph:
Pay special attention to the topic sentence (idea to be discussed in each paragraph)
Give at least three examples to support each body paragraph.
Decide on Organization Order
Time Order – The Writer’s World,
Emphatic Order – The Writer’s World, 26.
Space Order – The Writer’s World, 27.
Then, give a concluding sentence.

11. Developing Physically Write the Essay Introduction-Thesis Statement
Body Paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraph

12. Developing When Writing an Essay:
Skip Intro If It Is a Problem And Return To It Later
Start Where You Think Your Writing Is Going To Be Productive
Stop To Reread As You Go Or Continue If The Writing Seems To Flow Well

13. Revising and Editing Revise for unity. Revise for adequate support.
Revise for coherence.
Revise for style.
Edit for technical errors.

14. Revising and Editing Re-See What You Have Written
Look For Major Improvements In
Content
Enlarging or narrowing the thesis or topic sentence.
Adding more examples or cut irrelevant ones.
Organization
Reorganizing Points
Changing Paragraph Order

15. Editing Means Reviewing
Grammar
Word Choice
Spelling
Punctuation
Mechanics