The 6 Written Composing Processes for the CSET

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all paragraphs relate to the thesis.

As you draft your paragraphs, you want to try to include these effective writing techniques, but you may not get them right the first time around, and that is where the next stage of revision comes in.

Skilled teachers prompt, encourage, and add to the things students say and write as they organize their ideas and translate them to paper. This interest in student work continues to motivate the student. Teachers can support students by modeling how reading and rereading of the piece helps students organize thinking, predict what to write next, and know what to change.

Revising

Revising is the process of “getting it right.” Students improve a piece of writing by rereading, reviewing, and reworking the style, content, or presentation to make it more appealing to an audience. Top tasks and objectives include:

Revising for meaning.

Responding to the writing.

Reorganizing for clarity.

Writers will need to add information, delete information, and rearrange information. You will begin by checking to see if the essay fits the thesis, if each paragraph has a topic sentence, if there are transitions between paragraphs, and if there are any digressions. You may need to add information or delete any digressions. You will then need to look further. Do you have sufficient support in each paragraph, and is the support specific enough? If not, you may need to conduct more research to add information. Are the paragraphs arranged in the most logical way? If not, you may need to rearrange them? Revision is major overhaul; in fact, your second draft might not look too much like your first draft. It depends on how well prepared you were to write the paper to begin with that determines how effective the first draft might be. So prewriting is more important than you might think. If you have not done your research, during revision you might be sent straight back to prewriting and that’s why the writing process is not quite linear.

When the student comes to a stopping place in drafting, the teacher scaffolds the student’s

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