English 0300

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The Writing Process

• English 0300
• HCC Westgate Center
• Mrs. N. Puder

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Analyze Your Assignment

• Length
• Time Restraints
• In-Class or Out
• Sources
• Purpose
• Audience

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Sometimes We Write

• To Express Feelings and Attitudes
• To Persuade
• To Give Pleasure
• To Convey Information
• To Inform
• To Discover
• To Analyze

• To Debate
• To Criticize
• To Define
• To Compare or Contrast
• To Narrate/Describe
• To Amuse

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An Audience Is

• The Intended Reader
• Usually an Instructor or Other Students

• When an Instructor is the Intended Audience, she
  expects
• Correct Grammar
• Examples and Details
• Unity
• Coherence

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The Writing ProcessThree Stages

• Exploring
• Developing
• Revising and Editing

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Exploring Find a Subject Gather Information

• Focused Free writing
• See page 10 in The Writers World.
• 5-15 Minutes of Concentrated, Nonstop Writing
  about Your Topic.
• Then, Review What You Have Written.
• Listing or Brainstorming
• See page 11 in The Writers World.
• A Way of Listing Information About Your Topic.

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Exploring Continued

• Clustering
• See Page 12 in The Writers World.
• Questioning - Asking Journalistic Questions (5Ws
  and H) (Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How)
• See Page 11 in The Writers World.
• Keeping a Journal
• See Page 13 in The Writers World.

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Developing

• Physically Write the Essay
• Introduction-Thesis Statement
• Body Paragraphs
• Conclusion Paragraph
• If writing a paragraph
• Pay special attention to the topic sentence (idea
  to be discussed in each paragraph)
• Give at least three examples to support each body
  paragraph.
• Then, give a concluding sentence.

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Developing

• When Writing an Essay
• Skip Intro If It Is a Problem And Return To It
  Later
• Start Where You Think Your Writing Is Going To Be
  Productive
• Stop To Reread As You Go Or Continue If The
  Writing Seems To Flow Well

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Revising and Editing

• Re-See What You Have Written
• Look For Major Improvements In
• Content
• Enlarging or narrowing the thesis or topic
  sentence.
• Adding more examples or cut irrelevant ones.
• Organization
• Reorganizing Points
• Changing Paragraph Order

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Editing Means Reviewing

• Grammar
• Word Choice
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Mechanics