EPISODE 24

PROCESS APPROACH WRITING: PART 1

OBJECTIVES:
AT THE END OF EPISODE 24, THE LANGUAGE TEACHER SHOULD BE ABLE
TO:

1. generate and discover ideas for writing;

2. Stimulate students’ creative thinking; and

3. Use different strategies for pre-writing activities.

1. The product approach to writing is linear and the process approach
to writing is recursive.
Stages of a product writing lesson:
 
Product writing focuses on the end product. Students are
not required to generate and brainstorm ideas as
thoroughly as they do in process writing - instead, they
spend more time analyzing and practicing the main
features of the text genre they are supposed to write. A
product writing usually follows the stages below:
2. The process approach has three basic features which are the following:

Non- linear Recursive Generative

Steps need not be Involves several steps
followed in the same It is repetitive. or stages.
sequence.
3.
4. Brainstorming as a prewriting means searching the brain for ideas .
TIPS FOR STUDENTS:

a. Write down ideas very quickly.

b. Do not worry about how useful the ideas will be.
c. Do not worry about grammatically , organization of ideas
and punctuation marks.
d. Do not worry about neatness and correctness.
5. Speedwriting - Is a warm-up activity which can get our students
to write freely.

Some tips: The students should be

given a time limit.
They should write as
much as they possibly
can on a topic.

They should write

whatever comes into They should keep
their mind ; it doesn’t writing until the time is
matter if it doesn’t all up.
make sense.

They shouldn’t worry

about correctness and
neatness.
6. Cubing -is a writing exercise used as a pre-writing technique. Cubing, forcing a writer to
think and re-think a topic, allows a writer to explore various aspects of that topic. We
all know that a cube has six sides.
 7. MAPPING
-similar to cubing because it enables the learner to generate ideas alone
and let his/her imagination run free based on a given topic.
8. LOOPING
9. CLUSTERING  -is a type of pre-writing that allows a writer to explore many
ideas as soon as they occur to them. Like brainstorming or free
associating, clustering allows a writer to begin without clear
ideas. 
10. Other prewriting activities are suggested in the
episode are:

 Doing research work which may serve as

input for composition writing
 Reviewing a movie or television show
 Going on a field trip