The Writing Process

Stage 1: Prewrite
*Keep a journal
*Understand boudaries of assignment
*Determine your purpose audience and tone
*Discover the limited subject
*Generate raw material about your limited subject
*Organize the raw material

Stage 2: Identify the thesis
*Writing an effective thesis
*Avoiding thesis pitfalls-
Don't make announcements, Don't make broad statements
*Support the thesis with evidence
*Evidence being supporting paragraphs

Stage 3: Support the thesis with evidence
*Supporting paragraphs

Stage 4: Organize the evidence
*Thesis
*Introduction
*3 supporting paragraphs
*Conclusion
*Using transitions
*Use chronological, spatial area, emphatic approaches
*Prepare outlines
Stage 5: Write the first draft
*Connect ideas to thesis, introduction & conclusion
* Tie it all together with "unity"
Stage 6: Revise the essay
Peer review(wkshts)
Stage 7:Edit & proofread
* Correct grammer
* The four C's Concise, Credible, Clear, Correct