Overview of the Writing Process

Writing can be daunting for many students. There are so many aspects to writing: coming up with good ideas, using good grammar and spelling, making the writing interesting, staying on topic, and so on. Trying to juggle all of these can be frustrating. However, looking at writing as a process rather than a simple action helps writers focus on one task at a time. By breaking a writing task into separate activities, writers can focus their attention, avoid distraction, and write successfully. In this way, writers can avoid frustration, despair--and the garbage pail of crumpled pages.

In general, writers have to choose a subject (and reason for writing about it), find details to support their subject, organize their materials, revise for effectiveness, edit the language, proofread, and format the final version of the writing. The writing process helps writers complete these tasks by breaking a writing assignment into separate functions, each with its own purpose and goal.

ENGL1010 Composition I