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Effective Writing Process Guide

The document outlines a structured writing process that emphasizes breaking down writing into manageable steps to reduce anxiety and improve outcomes. It includes key elements such as understanding the assignment, identifying the rhetorical situation, and developing a thesis statement. The process culminates in drafting, revising, and editing before submission, with a focus on clarity and audience engagement.

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Effective Writing Process Guide

The document outlines a structured writing process that emphasizes breaking down writing into manageable steps to reduce anxiety and improve outcomes. It includes key elements such as understanding the assignment, identifying the rhetorical situation, and developing a thesis statement. The process culminates in drafting, revising, and editing before submission, with a focus on clarity and audience engagement.

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WTF:

Writing process: writing one step a time, over time

WTF:

It takes the anxiety and pain out of writing and leads to a better product

HTF:
1. Read and understand the assignment
2. Rhetorical situation: the circumstances in which you are writing

Purpose: what you set out to accomplish, your reason for doing it WHY

Argumentative writing: make an argument (stance based on evidence)

Describe something worth describing (abstract significance to our lives, how it


contributes to our identity)

Audience: the people receiving the information; the reader you’re trying to
convince

General Audience: a diverse, fairly universal group of people


● Dont make assumptions
● Dont preach to the choir

Medium: physical form the writing is presented in (digital)

Genre: types of writing

Essay: a collection of paragraphs working toward a unified purpose

Formal academic MLA style essay

Formal: professional tone and presentation

Academic: objective truths based on evidence

MLA Style: formal type of formatting (announcements, Writer’s Reference, Purdue


OWL, etc.)
3. Choose a topic: WHAT (specific job, trip, or place)
4. Pre-writing
Pre: before
Writing: writing
Writing before the consequences of writing

5. Narrow topic: WHAT (topic: specific job, trip, or place) and WHY (why it’s worth
describing; it’s abstract significance to your life or identity)

6. Thesis argument: a roadmap for your essay

WHAT: topic

WHY: stance (purpose) (why it’s worth describing)

HOW: support point (categories of evidence)

A single sentence at the end of the introduction paragraph

7. Outline: full plan or blueprint for your essay


Understanding every part of the essay and making plans for them

8. Drafting

Full but not finished version of your essay

Pre-consequences

9. Revision

Re: again

Vision: look

Look again at the ideas and content of the essay; big picture concerns like
argumentation, support, organization, unique human voice

Look again through the writing process itself


10. Editing: grammar, punctuation, tone, MLA style, spelling, word choice, etc.

Icing on the cake

11. Submit the assignment

Thesis statements
WHAT: the time my wife hit me in the face with a bat
WHY: exemplifies my early marriage
HOW: it revealed my haphazard leadership, my tolerance for suffering, and it revealed a
surprising side of my wife

Because it revealed the haphazard nature of my leadership, my tolerance for suffering,


and a surprising side of my wife, no story exemplifies blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah

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