steps in writing a college essay
1.prewriting
This part of the writing process involves choosing a topic to write on and brainstorming
ideas for your essay.
2.planning
This step in the writing process involves making an outline or plan for your essay.
3.drafting
This part of the writing process involves actually writing your essay. During this stage,
you should not worry about writing the “perfect paper.” Your goal during this step is to get your ideas down on paper.
4.revising & editing
This step in the writing process involves checking for ways to improve your essay in content
and organization. It is one of the last steps.
Checking your essay for grammatical and spelling errors is often called....
5.making a final copy
1.prewriting techniques
1.1 pre-writing
before you actually begin writing your essay, you need to--
choose a topic to write on
collect ideas for the topic
Some brainstorming activities will help you discover ideas for you essay. The brainstorming
techniques include--
focused free-writing
writing sentences to form a paragraph
writing continuously on a topic for 5 to 10 minutes without regard to spelling or grammar
producing raw material as a preliminary to formal writing
listing
rearrange the order, divide the items into groups, and further more expand the list. In doing so you would create a multi-layered list
clustering
first,write the topic in the center of the paper and circle it; second, jot down related ideas hierachically and connect them;third, form a outline as a plan to write.
An outline is useful for two reasons: 1. make your essay more focused on the central ideas. 2. use the ourline to save time.
questioning
narrow down on central ideas
1.3 Drafting and Revising
When you begin writing your rough draft, try to remember --
To write a rough draft, you should develop and support the ideas listed in your outline.
You should not worry about spelling and grammar right now because you can check this later.
1.4 Revising and Editing
Revising
After you write your first draft, go back over it and look for ways to improve your essay in content and organization. This step is called revision. Revise content and organization.
the built-in spell checker
1.5 Correct paper formatting
does there exist any software that support essay writing? I know that mind map is a good tool, but what else that would be
more specific to writing supporting?