Improving Student Writing Skills - cse crafts

Chapter
Three
The Writing Process
In short, the writing process comprises the mechanics
by which writers create publishable products. It is the
method all writers use to generate ideas, choose and
organize these ideas, write and revise their pieces, and
format them for publication. In terms of instruction, it
represents a holistic approach, encouraging creation of
an entire product, rather than working on pieces of this
process and only infrequently putting it all together (a
procedure all too frequently seen in textbooks). Writing
process instruction is just that—process oriented—and
encourages young writers to discover for themselves the
mechanics of composition. And while still infrequent
in textbooks, Dyson and Freedman (1990) point out
that over the past two decades, there has been a significant
shift from a focus only on the products of writing
to studying the processes associated with how writers
write.
If you format your class as a writing workshop, the writing
process will be indispensable, as it will be how students
engage themselves for the majority of their time.
Most questions that students have about what they
should be working on can be answered by pointing to
the next step of the writing process (consider posting the
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