The Writing Process

Editing

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What are the five stages of the writing process?

1. Prewriting

2. Drafting

3. Revising

4. Editing

5. Publishing

Prewriting

Prewriting helps the writer get ideas out of their head and onto paper.

Examples: Freewriting, brainstorming

Prewriting also helps the writer organize their thoughts and ideas.

Example: Making an outline

Drafting

Drafting is organizing your thoughts and putting them together to form sentences and paragraphs.

Drafting is writing!

Revising

Revising is rearranging or rewriting your sentences and paragraphs to make sense to the reader.

Editing

What is editing?

Editing consists of correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

Editing ensures that your writing follows the rules of written English.

Common Grammar & Usage Errors

Their, They're, or There?

 

Their: possessive form of the word they

They're: contraction of “they” and “are”

There: at or in that place

Common Grammar & Usage Errors

Your or you're?

Your is a possessive form of a personal pronoun.

Ex: I like your website.

You're: contraction of “you” and “are”

Ex: Someone said you're leaving.

Capitalization

1. The first word of every sentence. 2. The first-person singular pronoun, I. 3. The first, last, and important words in a

title. 4. Proper nouns 5. Names of relationships only when they

are a part of or a substitute for a person's name.

How many errors can you find?

Some epic heroes of ancient literature is King Arthur of the Round Table, the Babylonian Gilgamesh, hercules, and Beowulf. In more recent times, Superman, Batman, and other superheroes from comic books had many qualities of an epic hero. Modern science fiction stories and movies often have main characters who possesses many traits of the classical epic hero

Did you find five errors?

Some epic heroes of ancient literature are King Arthur of the Round Table, the Babylonian Gilgamesh, Hercules, and Beowulf. In more recent times, Superman, Batman, and other superheroes from comic books have many qualities of an epic hero. Modern science fiction stories and movies often have main characters who possess many traits of the classical epic hero.