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5.5.1 The Writing Process

English · Grade 10 · 4 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Stages of the writing process
  • Pre-writing: generating and organising ideas
  • Drafting
  • Revising for content and structure
  • Editing and proofreading

What you will be able to do

  • describe the stages of the writing process
  • generate and organise ideas before drafting
  • revise a draft for content and structure
  • edit and proofread a final version

Key questions

“Why is the first thing you write never the thing you should submit?”

Lessons

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  1. Planning and drafting
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Getting ideas out, putting them in order, and writing a first version quickly.
  2. Revising and editing
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Two different jobs, done in the right order, on a draft you are willing to change.
  3. Generating before drafting
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Getting ideas out and into an order so the first draft has somewhere to go.
  4. One piece, all the way through
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Taking a short public-sector text from numbered list to proofread version, without skipping a stage.