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Writing Process
When you write about something,
you follow several steps.
The steps are Brainstorming,
Outlining, Drafting, Revising
and Editing
Brainstorm: Write down ideas bout the
topic.
Outlining: Organize your ideas.
Drafting: Turn your ideas into sentences
and paragraphs.
Revising: Change and improve the
content of your writing.
Editing: Correct grammar, capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling errors.
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Types of sentences
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Fragment Sentences
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Developing a paragraph
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Write your own paragraph highlighting the topic
sentence.
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Write your own paragraph developing the body.
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Write your own paragraph developing the conclusion.
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Run on sentence
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Studying the writing process
1- Brainstorming:
Think about a
topic.
write down any
words or ideas
you can think of.
Cross out bad
ideas and add
details if you
need to.
Example:
like cold
weather and
snow.
Fun things: ice
skating,
snowman,
snowball fight.
like fruits and
vegetables
that grow in
winter
My
favorite
season is
winter
like wearing
scarf and
gloves
grandma
made.
Brainstorm about your favorite season
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2- Outlining:
Organize your
ideas
• Decide what goes in the topic, body and
closing sentences.
• You don't need to write complete sentences.
Example:
Topic
- winter
favorite
season
Why favorite season? weather?
activities?
Body
- like cold weather and snow.
- like wearing scarf and gloves grandma made for me.
- go ice skating, make snowman, have snowball fight.
- like fruits and vegetables grow in winter.
thoughts or
Closing
feelings
- best of all seasons.
Outline what you brainstorm on page 137.
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3- Drafting
Write the ideas from your outline into complete
sentences. Don’t worry about making it perfect.
Example:
Draft
My favorite season
My favorite season is winter. I like cold weather. I like wearing the
scarf and the gloves that my grandma made for me. There are lots of
fun things to do. On weekends, I like to go ice skating with my friends.
We make snowman and have snowball fights. Winter is full of fruits
and vegetables. I don’t like summer because it’s too hot. I think winter
is the best.
Write draft from the outline you made on page 138.
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4- Revising
Think about what to change in your writing to make
it better.
Example:
Revision
My favorite season
My favorite season is winter. I like the cold weather. When it’s cold, I
like wearing the scarf and the gloves that my grandma made for me.
In the winter, there are lots of fun things to do. On weekends, I like to
go ice skating with my friends. When it snows, we make snowman and
have snowball fights. Winter is full of fruits and vegetables that I like
the most. My favorite fruits are tangerine and pomegranate as well as
cauliflower and spinach from vegetables. I think winter is the best of
all seasons.
Write draft from the outline you made on page 138.
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5- Editing
After revising your writing, correct any
grammar, capitalization, punctuation, or
spelling errors.
Grammar
-Subject – verb agreement.
- The right tense.
- The right form of
sentences.
Spelling
-Correct spelling by checking
up the dictionary for the
words you are not sure from.
Capitalization
-Beginning of a sentence.
- Proper nouns.
- Months, days of the week,
holidays.
Punctuation
-Periods (.), question marks (?), exclamation points
(!).
- Commas (,) for words in a series and between the
day and year.
- Apostrophes (‘) to show possession and contractions
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Correction Codes
Mark
Λ
Error indicated
A word is missing
Mark
Gr
Error indicated
Grammar error
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//
Start a new sentence
Start a new paragraph
Sp
P
?
Unclear
Ss
Ø
Not necessary
V
x
Extra word
Art
Rw
RW
Repeated word
Re-write
Number/agreement(
Sing./Pl.)
Prep
Wo
Spelling error
Punctuation error
Sentence
structure
Vocabulary
Error with articles
(a, an, the)
Preposition
Wrong word order
Ww
Wrong word
Wt
WT
Wf
Irreg
Wrong tense
Wrong time
Wrong form
Irregular verb
n
!
Silly mistake
c/unc
Countable/uncountable
error.
On page 140, revise and edit your draft, write your
final draft below.
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