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The document discusses the writing process and is divided into three main sections: planning and shaping, drafting, and revising and editing. It encourages generating ideas through activities like journaling, brainstorming, and outlining. For drafting, it suggests writing in complete sentences and organizing paragraphs. The revising stage involves large changes to content and structure, while editing focuses on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. It emphasizes the importance of coherence, unity, and getting feedback from others throughout the process.

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Composition 1 - The Writing Process 1

The document discusses the writing process and is divided into three main sections: planning and shaping, drafting, and revising and editing. It encourages generating ideas through activities like journaling, brainstorming, and outlining. For drafting, it suggests writing in complete sentences and organizing paragraphs. The revising stage involves large changes to content and structure, while editing focuses on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. It emphasizes the importance of coherence, unity, and getting feedback from others throughout the process.

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Lesson 2

The Writing Process

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Writer’s Prompt:
 Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world.
 Albert Einstein

 What is your reaction to this quote? Why do you


agree or disagree? Journal your reaction and
response.

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Assignments for Next Class
 Read E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” on Page 24
in Great Writing (GW)
 Answer questions on page 29
 Meaning and Idea - #4
 Language, Form, Structure - #3, #4
 Read Little Brown Handbook (LBH) Chapter One
 Narrow the following subjects to manageable essays:
 The Civil War
 Teenage Drinking
 The History of the Cell Phone
 Environmentalism

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Review of Last Assignment

 What ideas did you generate?


 How would you describe the writer’s process?
1) Planning and Shaping
2) Drafting
3) Revising and Editing

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The Writing Process

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Writing as a process
– an overview

 Think of writing as a process: a set of activities you go


through to produce a finished product.
 This process has three distinct stages:
1) Planning and Shaping
2) Drafting
3) Revising and Editing

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Planning and Shaping
 Find a focus that fits your purpose and audience before
you start.
 Gather ideas:
 Keep a journal.
 Brainstorm or jot down lists of ideas.
 Free writing - let your mind go.
 Mind mapping / idea trees.
 5 Ws - (Who, What, When, Where, and Why)
 Outlining

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Drafting

 Getting your ideas into visible form:


 Prioritize your ideas.
 Write complete sentences.
 Divide text into paragraphs.
 Organize paragraphs into Introduction, Body and Close.

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Revising and Editing

 Large-scale changes: adding text, cutting, replacing


words/phrases, rearranging parts.
 Editing: checking the correctness of grammar, spelling,
punctuation and mechanics.
 Proofreading: are there any typos?

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Summing up: The Writing Process
 Think about your subject before you begin to write
 Use prewriting – the stages of thinking and writing in
advance of the draft – to sharpen your tentative thoughts
on a topic
 Prewriting may include jotting ideas, producing a list of
questions, using free association, or making a rough
outline.

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Summing up: The Writing Process
 Consider what others think or have thought about your
subject: Read what others have written; talk to friends;
review a film
 Share your draft with readers you trust
 As you revise, slash foggy thinking, cut imprecise words,
and trim wordy sentences

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Summing up: The Writing Process
 Observe unity and coherence as you write.
 Unity means that each idea relates to your main point and
the other ideas.
 Coherence means that one idea leads smoothly and
logically to the text.

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Summing up: The Writing Process
 Produce a thesis that states your main point and your
attitude or opinion toward it.
 Transitions, repetitions, and a constant focus on your
thesis help you achieve unity and coherence
 Invent an introduction that draws the reader’s attention to
the topic
 Produce a conclusion that goes beyond the mere
restatement of your thesis

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Grant Wood’s
American Gothic

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American Gothic –
A Writing Process Exercise
 Look carefully at the picture provided of American
Gothic, the famous painting by artist Grant Wood (1892-
1942).
 Notice the details and mood of the composition.

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American Gothic –
A Writing Process Exercise

 Prepare to use the three process steps to write about


the painting:
 Planning and Shaping
 Drafting
 Revising and Editing

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Planning and Shaping
 Use single words or phrases to describe the following
aspects of the painting:
 Background/ sky/ house/ shed
 People/ facial expressions/ hair/ eyes/ pitchfork/ hand
 How are the people similar? Different? What is their
relationship to each other?
 List your thoughts now

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Planning and Shaping
 Review your list of details.
 Answer this question in a single complete sentence:
 What central impression do the details
seem to convey?
 Write this sentence now

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Drafting

 Write your sentence out at the top of a new sheet of paper.


 Write a draft of a paragraph or two supporting your
sentence.
 Include as many details from your list as you can.

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Revising
 DETAIL:
 How have the details you mentioned help create the central
impression of the painting?
 ORGANIZATION:
 Is your paragraph organized? Coherent? Does it support your
core sentence?
 WORD CHOICE:
 Are your words precise? Replace any fuzzy words with more
precise ones.
 Revise your paragraph now.

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Editing

 Review your paragraph for correctness of sentence


structure, grammar, spelling and punctuation.
 Make any necessary changes.
 Edit your paragraph now.

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Share your finished product

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American Gothic Parodies

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The Writing Process
Wonder, think about an idea or subject to write
about
Refine the idea and narrow the subject
Initiate the first draft
Time goes by as you set the writing aside
Edit your writing for the final draft
Release your creation to the waiting world

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