1. Writing Process & Product

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Rough Draft Summarize your information. Restate your thesis in different words. Give projections for the future. Give some solutions.

8. 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!

9. 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

10. 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!

11. Celebrate because you are published!