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The Writing Process: Drafting: by Tarasine A. Buck

The document provides instructions for students on the writing process, from pre-writing through drafting and revision. It includes examples of outlines, pre-writing notes, and sample student work. The goal is to guide students in organizing their ideas before writing a first draft of an essay by doing pre-writing, creating an outline, and using that outline to draft paragraphs.

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The Writing Process: Drafting: by Tarasine A. Buck

The document provides instructions for students on the writing process, from pre-writing through drafting and revision. It includes examples of outlines, pre-writing notes, and sample student work. The goal is to guide students in organizing their ideas before writing a first draft of an essay by doing pre-writing, creating an outline, and using that outline to draft paragraphs.

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The Writing Process:

Drafting

by
Tarasine A. Buck
Warm-Up Writing

Listen to the story from your teacher’s


life.
Each time your teacher stops, write
down what you would do in this
situation or what you think happened
next.
The Writing Process
g
ct in Pre-Writing
f le
Re

Polishing Drafting

Revising Editing
Finding the Main Idea

Read the second paragraph in the essay


“Y2K and the New Millennium” on the
back of your “Typed Draft Guidelines”
sheet.
What is the main idea of this
paragraph?
Outlines
An outline is like a “skeleton” of an essay.
It shows the “bare bones” or main ideas of
the essay structure.
You can use an outline when you are
reading or when you are writing.
An outline helps you to organize ideas.
Sample Outline

I. Introduction: What is Y2K?


II. Why people were afraid
III. What really happened on January 1st
2000
IV. Conclusion: What people will do
now.
Practicing Outlines

With your partner, read the essay


“Getting to Know the Other Side of the
World.”
Write an outline of the main ideas of
the essay.
From Pre-Writing to First Draft

Pre-Writing Notes

Outline

First Draft
Sample Pre-Writing
I don’t know what to write about. Maybe about my brother’s boat
accident. We were so scared. We thought he was going to drown.
He was trapped under an overturned boat and didn’t have any air to
breathe. But it ended all right. He was rescued and only had a
broken arm. What else can I write about? Oh! I know. A day I will
always remember was the day I left my country to come to the
U.S. That was a sad/happy day. I felt sad and happy at the same
time. Maybe I should write about something happy. Our family
vacation last summer was fun. We drove to the coast and camped
for a week on the beach. Then there was the day the earthquake
happened. Now that was definitely a memorable event. I will never
forget it. I was at home with my older sister and little brother . . .
Sample Outline
I. Introduction: Before the earthquake
II. Body
A. During the earthquake
B. Right after the earthquake
C. Two hours after the earthquake
II. Conclusion
Sample Essay
Read the sample essay “Earthquake!” on the
handout. Answer the following questions
with your partner or group.
How did the writer organize his ideas? (How
did he decide what to write first, second,
next, etc.?)
What words and phrases does the writer use
to explain what happened first, second, etc.?
Practicing Outlines

Now take your own pre-writing notes


and organize them into an outline.
From this outline, begin writing the
paragraphs of your rough draft.
Read the “Rough Draft Guidelines”
handout for more information on rough
drafts.

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