Writing Process & Product. Why Process and Product? Process and product writing issues balanced...

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Writing Process & Product

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Writing Process & Product

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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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?

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Rough Draft

• Summarize your information.• Restate your thesis in different

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

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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!

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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

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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!

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Celebrate because you are published!