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The Writing Process

Steps in Writing an Essay


Revising and Editing PreWriting Drafting

Planning and Organizing

Final Draft!

2001 by Ruth Luman

References

What is the writing process ?


Writing an essay takes time. Thats why writing is often referred to as a process. In other words, there are several steps to go through before you have a complete essay ready to turn in for a grade. In this lesson we will talk about those steps. They are:

Introduction

Pre-Writing
Organizing Drafting Revising and Editing Handing in a Final Copy

Pre-Writing
Step One
Pre-writing literally means, before writing. Before you actually begin writing your essay, you will need to do the following things:

choose a topic to write on brainstorm or generate ideas for your topic focus in on central ideas

Organizing
Step Two
Making an outline can help you organize what you want to write. This is a rough plan for your essay and can help make the process of writing much easier.
Essay Outline I. II. Introduction Body Thesis: _____________________ 1. Topic Sentence: _____________ - supporting idea - supporting idea 2. Topic Sentence: ____________ - supporting idea - supporting idea 3. Topic Sentence: ____________ - supporting idea - supporting idea III. Conclusion

Drafting
Step Three
After getting ideas and making an outline of your essay, it is time to start writing the essay. When you begin writing your rough draft, try to remember the following guidelines.

Dont worry about writing the perfect paper the first time. Your goal in writing a rough draft is to develop and support the ideas listed in your outline.

Dont focus on spelling and grammar as you write your rough draft. You can check this later in the writing process.

Revising and Editing


Step Four
After you write your first draft, go back over it and look for ways to improve your essay in content and organization. This step is called revision. After you revise for content and organization, begin editing your draft for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure errors.

Revision
Content and Organization

Editing
Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, etc.

The Final Copy


Step Five
The last step is turning in your essay to be graded. Look at the guidelines below for turning in the final draft of your essay. word-processed

all new paragraphs indented five spaces


8 by 11 inch white paper double spaced, size 12 font one inch margins on all sides

Evaluation
Now, you are ready to review what youve learned. Click on the button below to return to Unit A. Do the interactive exercise. Then click on the essay rubric link to see how your essay will be evaluated.

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