The Writing Process Explore Notice events, people, objects in the world around you. Probe experiences for ideas. Record thoughts, observations through writing and sketching. Read, listen, and engage in exploratory research. Reflect to shape thoughts. Discover interest, focus, and purpose. ooeoooe Draft ‘Commit to a writing project—tentative audience and genre. ‘Tentatively plan writing. Write discovery draft (Draft #1) and successive drafts to final draft. Revise, select from, or expand discovery draft. Attend to sentence variety and word choice. ‘Work on beginnings, details, language flow, and endings. od © Proofread and edit for conventions—grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, © Complete final copy. Publish © Conduct final, formal editing. Produce published piece with final layout, illustrations, graphics (as appropriate). OOo Oe Focus on voice. —_——— Develop ideas and attend to text organization, ‘ { << ——_—_—_—_.--—_—————_+! * inet 5-3. The Writing Process