The writing process is made up of five general stages to help you succeed as a strong writer. The first stage is prewriting. Prewriting helps you to find and focus your ideas. Once you have chosen your topic you will then go into the prewriting stage of the writing process. This stage allows you to narrow down your topic by helping you be more specific and making your topic manageable within the length of your paper.
Prewriting helps you narrow down your topic in many different ways. You can narrow down your topic by using diagrams and asking yourself questions. Prewriting is also a very important stage that most students tend to look over but this stage is crucial to a successful essay. The prewriting stage helps you determine your purpose …show more content…
This is where most students tend to get mixed up by confusing the 4th and 5th stages of the writing process and how they work. The editing and proof reading stage allows you to examine your sentences and words and correct them as much as needed so that it conveys an accurate …show more content…
You should ask yourself are my sentences clear and concise? Do they use parallel structure for similar ideas? Are they varied? And do they contain strong active verbs. In this stage you should also focus on your word choice. There are four types of word choice you should follow within your essay. The tone and level of your diction. How are you sounding to your readers? Your word connotations, are you using concrete and specific language in your writing? Most importantly knowing how and when to use figures of speech. Within this course I have learned a lot about writing and how to effectively plan out my writing path. The three most helpful elements that I gained from this course would be learning how to develop and support my thesis. As an English student and coming into this course I have always struggled with creating an effective thesis statement. This unit has taught be how to break apart my ideas through organization has helped me into creating a strong thesis. This course taught me how to ask myself those tricky questions that I stumbled upon throughout my writing and gave me a guideline to help get me back on the right
Prewriting helps you narrow down your topic in many different ways. You can narrow down your topic by using diagrams and asking yourself questions. Prewriting is also a very important stage that most students tend to look over but this stage is crucial to a successful essay. The prewriting stage helps you determine your purpose …show more content…
This is where most students tend to get mixed up by confusing the 4th and 5th stages of the writing process and how they work. The editing and proof reading stage allows you to examine your sentences and words and correct them as much as needed so that it conveys an accurate …show more content…
You should ask yourself are my sentences clear and concise? Do they use parallel structure for similar ideas? Are they varied? And do they contain strong active verbs. In this stage you should also focus on your word choice. There are four types of word choice you should follow within your essay. The tone and level of your diction. How are you sounding to your readers? Your word connotations, are you using concrete and specific language in your writing? Most importantly knowing how and when to use figures of speech. Within this course I have learned a lot about writing and how to effectively plan out my writing path. The three most helpful elements that I gained from this course would be learning how to develop and support my thesis. As an English student and coming into this course I have always struggled with creating an effective thesis statement. This unit has taught be how to break apart my ideas through organization has helped me into creating a strong thesis. This course taught me how to ask myself those tricky questions that I stumbled upon throughout my writing and gave me a guideline to help get me back on the right