The Writing Process

Please record these notes into a notebook and study them for frequent quizzes.

1. Pre Writing (take the quiz)

a. Generating Ideas:

Activities:

1. Freewriting
2. Focused Freewriting
3. Clustering
4. Listing
5. Journal Writing
6. Mind Mapping
7. Brainstormimg
8. Journalistic Questions

Use this website for practice.

b. Organizing Ideas:

Order:

1. Logical Order
2. Chronological Order
3. Spatial Order

Outline

• use this website to help write an outline.
• Use this website for practice.

2. Drafting

• Turn your ideas into topics that explain the main idea of your essay. Then turn the topics into sentences called topic sentences.
• These topic sentences become the headings in the body of your essay.
• Check this website for the structure of an essay.

3. Editing

4. Revising

5. Publishing