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PROCESS WRITING
PREWRITING Generating ideas
Deciding purpose and audience
Getting ideas by: brainstorming, clustering, mapping, outlining, reading, thinking, freewriting, jotting, discussing, researching, journal, trying, discovering, etc.
DRAFTING Putting ideas down into form
Use the form needed for purpose and audience
Fluency (not perfection) is most important here
"Working Copy"
In pencil and written on every other line
The "rough" draft should never be graded
CONFERENCING Getting Reader Feedback
(EDITING) Giving Reader Feedback
REVISING Rethinking and rewriting
Concentrate on content, not mechanics
Shorten, lengthen, add, delete, correct, rearrange, develop, substitute, combine, etc.
Working the ideas out to say what you mean and mean what you say
Get reader's input, feedback, reactions, responses, and opinions
The writer makes all changes and decisions
This is the place to teach mini-lessons on focus corrections and then edit for them
PROOFREADING Finding mistakes and fixing them
Making it perfect and publishable
Correct mechanics (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, sentences, paragraphs, agreement, word usage, focus corrections, etc.)
FINAL DRAFT
Final copy should be as perfect as possible
Neat, ink, every line, one side of paper
Grade only on focus corrections and taught emphasis areas
Correct in pencil, non-red, or on another sheet
PUBLISHING Sharing writing with audience
Going public and getting your finished writing read
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