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Sample Lecture Notes: The Writing Process |
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Explain that the stages of the writing process are recursive, but for the purpose of discussion, can be described as distinct.
- Prewriting: researching and thinking about content, purpose of document, audience
Drafting: planning and getting prewriting into text format Revising and Editing: reviewing, getting opinions, clarifying, attending to readability Proofreading: checking for correctness and conformity to discourse conventions, conformity to academic Edited American English
To illustrate, discuss your personal writing process for different types of documents, such as: personal emails reports newsletter articles papers for publication proposals
Show how your process differs in particulars such as the time you spend on various stages, or how the tools or places you write may change.
Encourage students to reflect on their own writing process.
What is their current practice? What might they do to experiment? Most students don't spend much time on prewriting or rewriting, and their products suffer. They generally write without a clear sense of their rhetorical purpose or audience, and they revise very little.
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