The Writing Process is important to every writer, no matter
the level they are at in their writing endeavors.
The steps are: Pre-Writing, Writing, Editing, Revising,
& Publishing.
I tell my students… “You engage in the Writing Process every
time you send a text, but you don’t realize it.”
1. Pre-Writing: You
think about the message you want to send, and who you want to send it to.
2. Writing: You
write out the text.
3. Editing &
Revising: You look at the text to see if it says all you want it to say.
4. Publishing: You
send the text.
As an English professor, I feel that this is the best skill I
can teach my students. To break the
writing down into smaller steps. It will
make writing easier. I go through the
steps in class for each assignment, but I don’t tell them that it’s a step in
the writing process. I may have to start
doing this.
Most of my students appreciate being taught the
process. It often lets them know that
they don’t have to do everything in one step…
writing is a process. If I can
get my students to learn that one thing… I feel like I’ve overcome a great
obstacle.
