The Writing Process: First Draft

The Writing Process: Second Draft

The Writing Process: Third Draft

The Writing Process: Fourth Draft

The Writing Process: Fifth Draft

The Writing Process: Sixth Draft

The Writing Process: The Book!

“Teach the writer, not the writing.”

~Donald Murray

Children want to write. They want to write the first day they attend school. This is no accident. Before they went to school, they marked up walls, pavements, and newspapers with crayons, chalk, pens or pencils . . . anything that makes a mark. The child’s mark says, “I am.”

~ Donald Graves, 1983

“Secondary students should be writing as much as possible each day in English class and across the curriculum…if not they have little opportunity to learn to think through the medium of writing.”

~ Donald Graves, 1994

“Writing which encourages the writer to develop his or her own knowledge of a subject can activate thinking and stimulate the best kind of learning.”

~ Jackie Proett and Kent Gill,

The Writing Process in Action

“You have to write badly to write well.”

“Students need to write before they can write.”

~Donald Murray

“How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”

~E.M. Forester