THE THE PROCESS OF PROCESS OF

WRITINGWRITING

Why do you need a Why do you need a writing process?writing process?

It can help you to organize your It can help you to organize your thoughts.thoughts.

It can help you to make your writings It can help you to make your writings clearer and more attractive.clearer and more attractive.

It can help you to use your time It can help you to use your time productively and efficiently.productively and efficiently.

YOUR WRITING WILL YOUR WRITING WILL IMPROVE!!IMPROVE!!

Everyone has a writing Everyone has a writing process.process.

What is yours?What is yours?

Writing processWriting process

Invention (Brainstorming ideas)Invention (Brainstorming ideas) Collection (Choosing ideas)Collection (Choosing ideas) Organization (mapping ideas)Organization (mapping ideas) Drafting (First attempt)Drafting (First attempt) Revising (Looking for mistakes)Revising (Looking for mistakes) Proofreading (Reading from Proofreading (Reading from

distance and improving your distance and improving your writing)writing)

Invention: finding your Invention: finding your ideasideas

Brainstorming:Brainstorming: Getting your Getting your

ideas on ideas on paper.paper.

It must be It must be raining cats raining cats and dogs!!and dogs!!

Brainstorming: coming Brainstorming: coming up with ideas that up with ideas that

interest youinterest you

Listing:Choose the best main ideas to develop

Topics

Brainstorming

CollectionCollection

Gathering and choosing ideasGathering and choosing ideas

Clustering: mapping out Clustering: mapping out ideasideas

MAIN IDEA

Secondary ideas

examples

Little anecdotes

Details

Organizing: putting Organizing: putting information in an outlineinformation in an outline

OUTLINE

I. IntroductionA. State your ideaB. Sum up the main points

II. BodyA. Develop ideasB. Support ideas with arguments

III. ConclusionA. Sum up and emphasize the

main idea

DraftingDrafting Give yourself time to work Give yourself time to work

on your project.on your project. Find a comfortable place to Find a comfortable place to

do your writing.do your writing. Avoid distractions.Avoid distractions. Use remarkable Use remarkable

vocabularyvocabulary words and words and grammargrammar structures structures

Link your sentences and Link your sentences and paragraphs with paragraphs with cool cool connectorsconnectors

Take breaks.Take breaks.

Revising: reviewing Revising: reviewing ideasideas

Review:Review: Clear communication of ideas Clear communication of ideas Organization of paperOrganization of paper Paragraph structureParagraph structure Strong introduction and conclusion Strong introduction and conclusion

(catching the reader’s attention)(catching the reader’s attention) References to the reader (rhetorical References to the reader (rhetorical

questions, question tags, jokes…)questions, question tags, jokes…)

ProofreadingProofreading

Review in the distance (time or Review in the distance (time or mate):mate): Spelling & vocabularySpelling & vocabulary GrammarGrammar Cohesion (connectors and Cohesion (connectors and

punctuation)punctuation) Coherence (meaningfulness and Coherence (meaningfulness and

paragraph-text structure)paragraph-text structure) Presentation (layout, illustrations…)Presentation (layout, illustrations…)

Proofreading tipsProofreading tips

Some time after having finished your writingSome time after having finished your writing Slowly read your paper aloud.Slowly read your paper aloud. Read your paper backwards.Read your paper backwards. Exchange papers with a friend.Exchange papers with a friend.