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The following are the steps of the writing process.
The nine stages identified by the Raimes (1983:21) can be classified as follows:
i)Planning
-Identifying the purpose and audience for writing.
- Choosing the topic for writing.
-Generating and drafting the material through observing, brainstorming, making and taking notes, talking to other people and reading.
- Organizing the ideas into some logical order in preparation for the next step which is the actual writing down of ideas. Prose form that makes the essay.
ii) Writing
This is the step during which you draft down your composition in prose form from the beginning
to the end. That is, from
- Introduction
-Body –here you give all points you want to express
- The conclusion
At this stage of your writing process you use complete sentences; paragraphs and produce the complete essay
iii) Revising.
- Reading through your draft piece and making the necessary changes in language known as editing.
- Also you make necessary changes in content and organization known as revising.
- Rewriting the essay incorporating the changes made.
- Rereading to identify and make corrections on mechanical errors such as spelling mistakes and punctuation errors-this activity is known as proof reading and it is the last activity before writing is sent out to the reader
marto answered the question on May 21, 2019 at 07:23
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