ENGLISH FOR
ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
Ms. Queency B. Joves
PRE-WRITING
PROCESS
PRE-WRITING PROCESS
One of the hardest tasks in writing is
finding the topic to write about. It rarely
happens that you can pinpoint the topic in an
instant. The usual scenario is a huge amount
of your time is spent staring blankly at a
computer screen.
BRAINSTORMING
The activity aims
to generate as many
topics as you can in
10-15 minutes so
that these random
topics can be made
into a focused topic
later on.
FREE WRITING
Aside from brainstorming, you
can also use freewriting to
generate ideas.
• Freewriting is similar to
brainstorming in that you just
write any idea that comes to
your mind.
• The catch is to put down into
writing the ideas that you
think of so that later on you
will be able to generate ideas
and narrow them down into a
single topic for your paper.
CLUSTERING
This technique provides a
graphic representation of your
ideas, allowing you to visualize
the connections and/or
relationships of your ideas.
Write your main topic at the
center of your paper then circle
or box it. Think of subtopics and
place them around the center
circle until you feel that you have
WRITING
PROCESS
Developing Your Thesis
Statement
A strong thesis statement usually contains an
element of uncertainty, risk, or challenge
(Ramage, Bean, and Johnson 2006:34).
This means that your thesis statement should
be offer a debatable claim that you can prove or
disprove in your essay. The claim should be
debatable enough to let your readers agree or
disagree with you.
Developing Your Thesis
Statement
This means that your thesis statement should be offer
a debatable claim that you can prove or disprove in your
essay. The claim should be debatable enough to let your
readers agree or disagree with you.
Thesis statement: While social media can be
instructive and enjoyable, teens should limit their time
on it because it is not always intellectually challenging, it
limits social interaction, causes depression and anxiety,
and elicits negative emotions rather than good outlooks.
Organizing your Paper
Your new task as a writer is to support
your thesis statement with sufficient
evidence, data, and examples. Some
people think that this is where the “real”
writing begins because this is where you
will support your thesis statement and
expound on it as well.
a. Organizing your ideas
It means finding the connections of one point
to another and establishing a link from one idea
to another. The challenge for you as the writer it
to be able to “weave back and forth between
generalizations and specifics”. (Ramage, Bean,
and Johnson 2006:40)
b. Outlining
it is an effective way of ensuing the
logical flow of your ideas. You may opt (to
make a choice) to use the standard
outline complete with roman numerals
and indentions or you may use lists,
diagrams, or maps.
POST-
WRITING
PROCESS
There are two
processes involved in
port-writing:
REVISING and
EDITING.
REVISING
Revising is re-seeing the entire draft
so that the writer can deal with the
large issues that must be resolved.
Murray (2005) provided checklist for
revising.
EDITING
Editing deals with the line-by-line,
word-by-word issues. This makes sure
that the spelling, punctuation,
capitalization, and grammar are
correct.
ANY
QUESTIONS?
Thank
You! :)