Writing Flashcards
THE WRITING PROCESS
Make sure you understand your assignment.
Decide on a topic to write about.
Consider who will read your work.
Brainstorm ideas about the subject.
STEP 1: PREWRITING (THINK AND DECIDE)
THE WRITING PROCESS
List places where you can find information.
Do your research.
Make an Outline to help organize your research.
STEP 2: RESEARCH (IF NEEDED)
THE WRITING PROCESS
Put the information you researched into your own words.
Write sentences and paragraphs even if they are not perfect.
Read what you have written and judge if it says what you mean.
Write some more.
Read it again.
Write some more.
Read it again.
Write until you have said everything you want to say about the topic.
STEP 3: DRAFTING (WRITE)
THE WRITING PROCESS
Read what you have written again.
Rearrange words, sentences or paragraphs. Take out or add parts.
Do more research if you think you should.
Replace overused or unclear words.
Read your writing aloud to be sure it flows smoothly.
STEP 4: REVISING (MAKE IT BETTER)
THE WRITING PROCESS
Be sure all sentences are complete.
Correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Change words that are not used correctly or are unclear.
Make sure you are using the appropriate Style formatting.
STEP 5: EDITING AND PROOFREADING (MAKE IT CORRECT)
It uses writing to generate and clarify ideas.
“brainstorming techniques.”
These strategies help you with both your invention and organization of ideas, and can aid you in developing topics for your writing.
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
It is a process of generating a lot of information within a short time by generating some broad ideas and then building on those associations for more detail. It is particularly useful if your starting topic is very broad and you need to narrow it down.
Listing
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
(PROCESS)
Jot down all the possible terms that emerge from the general topic you are working on.
Group the items that you have listed according to arrangements that make sense to you. Are things thematically related?
Give each group a label. Now you have a narrower topic with possible points of development.
Write a sentence about the label you have given the group of ideas. Now you have a topic sentence or possibly a thesis statement.
Listing (Process)
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
It is also called mind mapping or idea mapping, is a strategy that allows you to explore the relationships between ideas. Useful in determining the relationship between ideas.
Clustering
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
(PROCESS)
Put the subject in the center of a page. Circle or underline it.
As you think of other ideas, write them on the page surrounding the central idea. Link the new ideas to the central circle with lines.
As you think of ideas that relate to the new ideas, add to those in the same way.
Clustering (Process)
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
It is a process of generating a lot of information by writing non-stop for a predetermined amount of time. It allows you to focus on a specific topic, but forces you to write so quickly that you are unable to edit any of your ideas.
Freewriting
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
(PROCESS)
Freewrite on the assignment or general topic for five to ten minutes non-stop.
After you have finished freewriting, look back over what you have written and highlight the most prominent and interesting ideas; then you can begin all over again, with a tighter focus.
Freewriting (Process)
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
It is a freewriting technique that allows you to focus your ideas continually while trying to discover a writing topic.
Looping
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
(PROCESS)
After you freewrite for the first time, identify a key thought or idea in your writing, and begin to freewrite again, with that idea as your starting point.
You will loop one 5-10 minute freewriting after another, so you have a sequence of freewritings, each more specific than the last.
Loop your freewriting as many times as necessary, circling another interesting topic, idea, phrase, or sentence each time.
When you have finished four or five rounds of looping, you will begin to have specific information that indicates what you are thinking about a particular topic.
Looping (Process)
PREWRITING STRATEGIES
Journalists traditionally ask six questions when they are writing assignments that are broken down into five W’s and one H: Who?, What?, Where?, When?, Why?, and How?
You can use these questions to explore the topic you are writing about for an assignment.
The Journalists’ Questions
