Process Writing Goals: Writer's will ...
- employ Creativity. Experiment and choose tools to assist at each stage
- practice Communication. Interact with text, stages, and others
- value Freedom. Revisit stages and do them again to better express meaning
What?
Process Writing is one way to finish an essay successfully and includes four basic writing stages:
1. Planning. Create ideas to write about. This stage is where the topic and target audience, and details are thought of.
2. Drafting. Expand and organize ideas to create meaning using sentences, paragraphs, essays, & citations. This stage focuses on developing fluency by writing then checking if things make sense to others. Who can respond and react to ideas with content comments: suggestions, questions, etc.
3. Revising. Check global content and organization of ideas for better communication. Writers review (read) their composition and address feedback from the responses of others. This stage is where writers reflect (rethink) if they effectively communicated their meaning to the reader by clarifying what they wrote by adding information or details.
4. Editing. Correct the mechanics of text, including spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting, and so on. This stage is for cleaning up the paper of errors and ensuring communication.
Why?
Process Writing focuses on improving skills in writing. Good writers engage and move between and return to stages before their finished product. The Process Writing approach is geared toward writers in high academic settings that require research or quality.
How?
Process Writing encourages repeating activities. Writers start at the first stage but can go between stages and use tools form each stage. By doing the activities in each stage of the process many times and returning to them, writers develop their writing by paying more attention to it.
