PREWRITING STAGE
Usually consists of breaking down the prompt and planning out the essay step by step. Its helpful for finding out who your audience is and the purpose of the paper.
What can you do? (examples)
- Brainstorm
- Free write
- Research
DRAFTING
Writing your first daft is very important to the writing process. Its a great way to get your thoughts down and work with others to add to your paper.
REVISION
Revising is when you’re looking over your work and making edits wherever you can. The Bedford Guide gives us some ideas on how to revise.
Global Revision
Dealing with the larger issues in the essay. It focuses on structure, flow, tone, purpose, and audience.
Sentence Level Revision
Dealing with smaller details (not that they are less important but they are not as big as something such as purpose) such as grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
EXTRA TIPS FOR WRITING
- For long papers, try to break the work down and manage your time at a level that works best for you
- Maybe try having multiple drafts you can use
- Use track changes (Google Docs and Microsoft have this turned on already) but you can also use other sites such as Grammarly
- Use your resources! Highlight, bold, underline, italicize do whatever you can to help
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