The Writing Process APX 0500 Guinot Varty 1

What is Writing? It’s a Product: Create well-organized and effective summaries of and responses to college level texts Write college-level texts using an appropriate academic style and conventions of language use

What is Writing? It’s also a Process: Develop a flexible writing process consisting of effective strategies for planning, drafting, revising, and editing essays, paragraphs, and sentences Use reflective writing to develop metacognition of self as a learner within an academic discourse community

Writing as a Process Planning Drafting Revising Editing Sometimes, these go in order. Sometimes not.

Recursive Process “-cursive” = ? “re-” = ? The nature of a writing process is that is is looping, messy, and dependent on the situation.

Planning What do you want to say? Who do you want to say it to? What is your purpose and message? Who do you want to say it to? Who is your audience? How do you need to say it? What genre should you use? What is your position and tone as the writer? What qualifies you to say it? What do you already know? What do you need to know?

Drafting Writing to express yourself Writing to accomplish your purpose Writing to make sense to your reader Writing to learn vs. learning to write “As writers draft, they discover new ideas and unexpected problems. At these junctures, they may have to return to earlier processes: they may brainstorm, re-sketch their ideas, re-write their outlines. They will inevitably revise or refine their theses.”

Revision Not the same thing as “editing” or “proofreading.” Revision is looking again at your writing to see if and how it connects to your planning: to your purpose as a writer, to the context you’re writing in, to the genre you are composing, to the audience you’re targeting.

Editing Re-reading Re-writing Out loud Backwards By paragraph (first and last sentences) Re-writing Sentence rearrangement Paragraph rearrangement Punctuation and spelling