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Victor
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last updated: 9/4/2013
THE WRITING
RESOURCE
PACKET
LANGUAGE ARTS
BY
MR.
VICTOR
Writing is a skill essential for
success beyond academics. To be an
effective
communicator is the only
way a person truly gets heard.
"If you cannot write well, you cannot think well,
and if you cannot think well, others will do your
thinking for you." George Orwell
Scott Victor
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THE WRITING PROCESS
The “writing process” consists of approximately seven stages and is the method people who write use.
Therefore, as it is one of the goals to become proficient writers for both the future and state writing tests,
we will learn and use this writing format.
Stage One: Pre-writing
This is the preliminary stage to writing a paper and is designed to help you make your plan. It
begins when
you decide to write or when you are given a writing assignment. You, the writer, should not be concerned
with perfection, spelling, and sentence structure in this stage. Your goal is to search for potential
starting
points, experiment with them, and eventually focus on one idea for writing. Pre-writing consists of methods
to help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block.” The three most often used types are “Brainstorming,”
“Clustering,” and “Free-writing.” Your goal is to choose and use whatever works best for you.
Stage Two: First Draft
In this stage you begin to develop an idea, topic, your focus. Here is where you begin to organize and
expand your ideas, but we are not looking for perfection yet, so do not stress yourself out. Just take off
from your “pre-writing” and write as much as possible on your topic/ideas.
