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The Writing Process

The document discusses the key steps in the writing process: 1. Focusing on a topic involves narrowing down a general topic by thinking of a related question and answering it with details to develop an initial thesis statement. 2. Organizing ideas involves outlining the main ideas, subtopics, and supporting details generated from answering the question that leads to the thesis statement. 3. Drafting is writing the first draft focusing on content and organization without worrying about grammar or mechanics. Feedback is then obtained to improve the draft.

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The Writing Process

The document discusses the key steps in the writing process: 1. Focusing on a topic involves narrowing down a general topic by thinking of a related question and answering it with details to develop an initial thesis statement. 2. Organizing ideas involves outlining the main ideas, subtopics, and supporting details generated from answering the question that leads to the thesis statement. 3. Drafting is writing the first draft focusing on content and organization without worrying about grammar or mechanics. Feedback is then obtained to improve the draft.

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Focusing on a Topic

The Writing Process


The next thing you do with the general topic you came up
with is to narrow it down. Focus on a topic by thinking of a
PREPARATION
question related to your specific purpose. Afterwards,
answer the question with atleast two details. The answer
to your question will most probably lead to your initial
thesis statement.
Ladies and gentlemen,

Good day to all of us! I am (Mary Flor T. Caalim)


and I am the/a (TIE Faculty). I am so pleased to
be with you today and to have the chance to
introduce our guest speaker. He is no other
than the TESDA Leyte Provincial Director
Rolando V. Bade.
So without further ado, let us all welcome
Director Rolando V. Bade.
MODELING

GENERATING IDEAS

FOCUSING ON A TOPIC Organizing Ideas


The next step in writing is organizing your idea in an
OUTLINING outline. In preparing an outline, begin by answering the
question that leads to your thesis statement. Two or three
DRAFTING main ideas can be generated using this technique. Use
these main ideas as your main heading (level 1). Then,
write the subtopics for each main idea (level 2). Finally,
FEEDBACK
write the supporting details for each of the subtopics
(level 3).
REVISING

EDITING Drafting
Once you have outlined your ideas, it is time to write
PUBLISHING
your first draft. At this stage, you need to focus on the
content and organization not on the grammar and
mechanics.

Preparation
During this stage, you have to establish your purpose first.
Ask yourself ‘’ Why do I want to inform, entertain, or Feedback
persuade the audience about my topic? You have to be Feedback is an important component of the writing
informed of the character, interest, background, and process. It is a response to the written work which
preferences of your target readers. This will make it easier focuses on all aspects of writing. During the drafting
for you to convince them and sustain their attention. stage, the feedback focuses more on the content,
Finally, you need to think of the topic you are writing and structure, organization, and clarify of the message.
the type of output that you will produce. Feedback can be classified into three: self-feedback,
peer-feedback, and teacher-feedback.

Modeling
Modeling is the process by which you, the writer, look at
the different works which are similar in nature with the Revision
paper you are about to write. For instance, if you will Revision is the act of improving the original paper by
write an argumentative paper, you can check at least two applying changes based on the feedback. You also
samples of argumentative essays. Analyze the features need to apply critical thinking and evaluation skills
such as the organization, structure, and language use of when considering the comments on your paper. You
the sample texts to determine how they achieved their do not have to accept all the comments as long as
purpose. there are valid reasons for doing so. If time permits,
give yourself two or three days before starting your
revision because having a break allows you to have a
Generating Ideas fresher look at your paper.
To come up with ideas, you can do any of these prewriting
activities: brainstorming, clustering, or freewriting.
Editing
Brainstorming is the process in which you list as many
The finishing stages of writing are editing and
ideas as you can think of without censoring them.
proofreading. While editing focuses on grammar and
In freewriting, you let the ideas flow freely by writing
language use, proofreading focuses on typography
them down in sentences. Note that there is little need to
and mechanics. During this stage, you need to use
pay attention to grammar and logic at this point; simply let
standardized editing symbols to note the corrections.
the ideas run.
Publishing
Also known as mapping, clustering is a technique that uses
visual representations to show connections between Even if most of your written works are made for
ideas. academic purposes onlt, you still share them with
other people. After exerting effort in writing a good
paper, you have to showcase your work to other
people. This stage is known publishing. One way to
publish your work is by posting it on social networking

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