Strategies

Stages

Processes

Accessing prior knowledge

Establishing purpose

Identifying audience

Formulating questions

Understanding criteria for task

Focusing and Planning

Discussing

Listing, Mapping, Webbing

Drawing, Role playing

Free writing

Organizing, Classifying

Outlining

Drafting

Rereading with audience, purpose, focus questions, and criteria in mind

Identifying ambiguities and logical fallacies

Noting lack of organization, clarity, details

Assessing and Revising

Adding facts, details

Eliminating unnecessary details and redundancies

Reorganizing

Rephrasing for clarity, tone, style, and coherence

Rereading with standard English conventions in mind.

Assessing and Editing

Editing for sentence variety and for correct sentence structure, mechanics, usage, spelling

Reviewing criteria, purpose of task, and needs of audience

Planning and preparing final product

Reflecting and planning for future writing tasks

Publishing and Evaluating

Designing

Formatting

Rehearsing and presenting

Evaluating final product