Writing Essentials

The part of the writing process in which you correct your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

• drafting
• prewriting
• revising
• editing

In this step of the writing process, you are writing down all of your ideas and often using a graphic organizer

• prewriting
• publishing
• editing
• revising

In this step of the writing process, you are organizing your thoughts into complete sentences, but are not yet worried about spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or word choice.

• revising
• publishing
• drafting
• editing

I plan my writing during this step of the writing process.

• editing
• publishing
• prewriting
• revising

What is a thesis?

• theme of your writing

• main point you are trying to prove

• something that appears in the body of your writing

During the Editing step, one should:

• look for subject-verb agreement

• look for errors with commas

• check for appropriate use of apostrophes

One great way to organize your writing during Prewriting is to

• develop a thesis

• organize the details

• create an outline

The correct order for the steps of the Writing Process are

• Prewriting, revising, writing, editing, publishing

• Prewriting, writing, revising, editing, publishing

• Publishing, editing, writing, revising, prewriting

• publishing, editing, revising, writing, prewriting

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

During the revising step:

• check for grammatical errors

• turn it in

• write the introduction, body paragraphs, and the closing

• check for focus, details, and paragraph development

Name the part of the writing process that you are in if you are thinking about a topic and what you're going to write about. 

• Prewrite
• Rough Draft
• Revising
• Publishing