Writing Process & Product

Why Process and Product?

• Process and product writing issues balanced writing.

• Process writing provokes thoughtful writing.

• Product writing focuses on the final draft and what small corrections can be made.

Pre-writing

What is pre-writing?

When competing in a sport an athlete must warm-up and stretch prior to competition in order to perform at their highest potential. Much like warming up for an athlete, a writer (and we are all writers) must stretch their mind, get some ideas flowing and ready for use.

Pre-writing

Ways to Pre-write:• REMEMBER: There is no one way to

pre-write.• Observations in real life• Journal entries• Idea-Web• Create an outline

Rough Draft

• How are you going to start your paper off?

• How can you best grab your readers attention to hook them into the rest of your paper?

Rough Draft

• What is going in the middle of your paper?

• How are you going to organize your information?

• How are you going to organize information inside your paragraphs?

Rough Draft

• Summarize your information.• Restate your thesis in different

words.• Give projections for the future.• Give some solutions.

Revise

• This is where you go Global!– Look only at information that affects the

whole text:• Organization• Is there one thread that ties the whole

paper together?• Are there any parts that seem unclear

or need more information?• Is your voice coming through?• Have others read your paper!

Edit

• This is where we deal with the local issues of your paper.– Look at things within the text that are

smaller (or local) issues:• Grammar• Transitions• Spelling• Punctuation

Publish

• This is the last step.• Make sure everything looks clean.

– Margins– Grammar– Last minute touch-ups

• If you are publishing, make sure to send it in the correct format.

• Way to go! You just completed your paper!

Celebrate because you are published!