1. Stages of the Writing Process

2. 1. Prewrite:
- Generate ideas and figure out what and how you think
2. Draft:
Allow your ideas to take shape
Form a coherent and organized rough draft that starts to express your point
Keep your audience in mind

3. 3. Reader Response: 4. Revise:
- Share your work with others for the purpose of getting feedback on the content
4. Revise:
Re-see or re-think your writing
Look at your work again for improvements and clarifications
Finish with a clear and complete piece in relation to your ideas

4. 7. Self – Evaluate/Reflect:
5. Edit:
After revisions, check your paper for mechanical correctness.
Editors check for errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation.
6. Final Draft/Publish:
Present it to your audience
7. Self – Evaluate/Reflect:
Document what you learned, set future goals

5. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE FOLLOWING:

6. AUDIENCE CANEDUIE Other students College admission officers
Family members
Other teachers
The general public
A scholarship committee
The school board or city council
Others: __________________

7. SUPERPO PURPOSE To persuade To inform To pass along family stories
To demonstrate understanding
To entertain
To explain
Others: __________________

8. MORF FORM essay letter story poem diary article
others: __________________

9. THREE-PART
ESSAY STRUCTURE

10. Introduction (1 or more paragraphs) Opening Sentences
capture your reader’s attention (“hook” or “grabber”);
introduce general topic, then narrow to subject;
provide background information on topic or materials used, etc.

11. B. Thesis
answer to the question asked;
statement of point to be proven (usually a single sentence);
focuses essay;
offers insight
C. Forecast
a sentence or sentences indicating the subtopics that will follow.

12. Remember that the introductory paragraph is the reader's first glimpse of you and your topic. You want to make a good impression.

13. II. Body (Each supporting paragraph of the body should contain the following:)
Topic Sentence
identifies subject of paragraph and relates it to thesis and essay;
develops the essay
B. Analysis of Topic Sentence
explains topic sentence

14. C. Evidence/Interpretation of Evidence
a statement or example that further strengthens the topic sentence
a situation or probable result
D. Anchor
final sentence of paragraph that connects one paragraph to the next
Refreshes reader’s mind about purpose or value of essay

15. III. Conclusion Summary/ Intensified Insight
(1 or more paragraphs)
Summary/ Intensified Insight
brief restatement or rephrasing of thesis
Brief reminder of the points raised in the essay
A statement that deepens the idea of the thesis (without opening new topics)
“food for thought”

17. *Try to avoid the "so-as-you-can-see" ending and the "in conclusion my thesis statement proves that" or "states that" ending.