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Check Your Understanding
Now that you have gone through the stages of the writing process as a group, consider what you have learned about yourself as a writer. Describe your writing process, which might be unique to you, and your growth as a writer. Revisit the writing process graphic you created in Activity 1, and consider whether it is still accurate. Modify it as needed in order to capture your process for writing, and create or select a quote to accompany your visual. In your writing group, share your visual.
a. Discuss your writing process.
b. Explain how you have developed as a writer.
ACTIVITY 3
Working Through the Writing Process Independently
WRITING PROMPT: Use your understanding of your writing process to develop
an original text. Choose a topic, a genre, and an audience to which your topic will appeal. The following is an overview of the writing process presented in Activity 2. Use it as a reference as you craft your next piece.
➢ Prewriting
• Review your Potential Writing Topics list and select another topic of interest
for you to take through the writing process.
• Use the RAFT strategy to establish a preliminary target audience, topic,
position, and genre.
• Choose an appropriate prewriting strategy to generate content and consider
a preliminary organizational structure.
➢ Drafting
• Review ideas and information generated from prewriting to create a draft. • Read through your draft to refine it for clarity and coherence in preparation
for sharing it with your peers.
➢ Sharing and Responding
• Work collaboratively within writing groups to provide effective responses
that will lead to revision.
• Share your draft multiple times for help with revising and editing.
➢ Revising
• Review and evaluate your draft to make any appropriate changes.
• Consider the feedback received from peers or your teacher, and decide how
you will incorporate those suggestions into your next draft.
• Create a “Revision Checklist” that identifies what needs to be done with the draft as well as the strategies and resources needed to accomplish the task.
➢ Editing
• Review your draft and edit it for conventions of standard written English
and usage (e.g., grammar and conventions) appropriate for the genre.
• Consult additional resources (e.g., mentor texts, handbooks, style manuals,
dictionaries, spell check, thesaurus, and peer editors) to correct errors in
spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.
• Read through your draft and self-edit it using proofreading marks to signal
changes that need to be made in the final draft.
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