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The Writing Process
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WRITING AS PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW
Think of writing as a process: a set of activities
you go through to produce a finished product.This process has three distinct stages:Planning and Shaping, Drafting, and Revising/
Editing.
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PLANNING AND SHAPING
Find a focus that fits your purpose and audiencebefore you start.
Gather ideas: ± Keep a journal. ± Brainstorm or jot down lists of ideas. ± Free writing - let your mind go.
± Mind mapping / idea trees. ± 5 Ws - (Who, What, When, Where, and Why) ± Outlining
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WRITING OR DRAFTING
Getting your ideas into visible form:
± Prioritize your ideas.
± Write complete sentences.
± Divide text into paragraphs.
± Organize paragraphs into Introduction, Bodyand Close.
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EDITING: EVALUATING YOUR DRAFTCRITICALLY AND MAKING CHANGES
Large-scale changes: adding text, cutting,replacing words/phrases, rearranging parts.
Editing: checking the correctness of grammar,spelling, punctuation and mechanics.
Proofreading: are there any typos?
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WRITING AS PROCESS: LET¶S COMPAREMETHODS
Think of the most unusual or eccentric person you haveever met.
In 20 minutes, write a paragraph describing this personto your classmates. Concentrate on getting eachsentence right as you go.
Do not rewrite your paragraph.
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PLANNING AND SHAPING: PART I
About your person, answer these questions:When/where did you meet?What does he or she look/sound like? Face/clothing/ hair/ body/ language/ accent?What are his or her tastes in movies/ books/music/ food/ cars?How did he or she surprise/ teach/ inspireyou?Why should your classmates be interested inhim or her?
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PLANNING AND SHAPING: PART II
Close your eyes and imagine ³X´ doingsomething he or she typically does. Imagineevery detail.
Freewrite for 5 minutes about your image.
± Write quickly.
± Don¶t edit as you go - just put down the wordsas fast as you can.
± If you get stuck, just write ³I¶m stuck, I¶mstuck«´ until you think of something.
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DRAFTING
FOCUSING: ± Look at your free
writing paragraph. ± Take a new page
and write down inone sentence ³X´¶s
single moststriking/ unusualfeature.
DRAFTING: ± Write a paragraph
developing the ideayou just wrotedown.
± Use any relevant
details from your list or free writing.
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REVISING & EDITING
REVISING: Your classmates are the audience.Will you need additional detail for them to
visualize what you mean? Make those additionsnow.
EDITING: Check your paragraph for correctnessof sentence structure, grammar, spelling and
punctuation and correct errors now.
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COMPARISON
Reread the paragraphyou wrote without
going through theprocess and compareit to the ³processed´one.
How do they differ?Which one is better?
If the ³processed´paragraph is better,
which phase of theprocess helped youmost?How will you use thisinformation when youwrite?
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GRANT WOOD¶S AMERICAN GOTHIC
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AMERICAN GOTHIC: WRITING AS PROCESSEXERCISE
Look carefully at thepicture provided of
American Gothic, thefamous painting byartist Grant Wood(1892-1942). Noticethe details and moodof the composition.
Prepare to use thefour process steps towrite about thepainting: ± Planning and
Shaping
± Drafting ± Revising ± Editing
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PLANNING AND SHAPING
Use single words or phrases to describethe following aspectsof the painting: ± Background/ sky/ house/
shed ± People/ facial expressions/
hair/ eyes/ pitchfork/ hand ± How are the people
similar? Different? What istheir relationship to eachother?
Review your list of details.Answer this questionin a single completesentence: ± What central
impression do thedetails seem toconvey?
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DRAFTING
Write your sentence out at the top of a newsheet of paper.
Write a draft of a paragraph supporting your sentence.
Include as many details from your list as youcan.
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REVISING
DETAIL: How have the details you mentionedhelp create the central impression of the
painting?ORGANIZATION: Is your paragraph organized?Coherent? Does it support your core sentence?
WORD CHOICE: Are your words precise?Replace any fuzzy words with more preciseones.
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EDITING
Review your paragraph for correctness of sentence structure, grammar, spelling andpunctuation.
Make any necessary changes.