WRITING PROCESS

Prewrite
(Collect
ideas)

Revise Draft
 TIMELINE FOR A SEQUENCE
Prewriting OF EVENTS

❖Find a topic

❖Collect ideas and research if necessary.

• Brainstorm the ideas and organize them in a

diagram depending on the type of text.
• Answer the basic questions.

WHO WHERE WHEN WHAT WHY HOW

 Draft Writing
❖ Think on your audience and on your purpose for writing since these aspects
influence the vocabulary, the content and the text
organization. Is it completing a class assignment?, (make sure you understand the
instruction), Informing?, entertaining?, or persuading?

❖ Think about how to organize your ideas in the text, how to group them in a
paragraph and what idea is the focus in each paragraph.

❖Begin writing down each idea taking into account the most common correct
Word order in a sentence for English.

Don’t use translator to write since the language structure is different. Using it results in an unclear text.
❖ ENGLISH CORRECT WORD ORDER IN A SENTENCE is:

Reason/
Subject/ Verb/ Receiver/ Manner Place Time/ Purpose/
Who? What? What? /How? Where? When Why?

He studies Maths judiciously in the library every afternoon to pass his final test.

❖ You can make emphasis in the complements of time, place or reason. So you place them
first, separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma.

To pass his final test, he studies Maths judiciously.

❖ If any category is composed of several parts, use them from the smaller element to the larger one.

The party will be in the community hall of Bonanza Neighborhood in Bogotá,

Colombia.
Subject usually comes first and before the verb. Don’t use it after the verb.
● Studies he Maths…...
Do not separate the receiver from the verb
● He studies judiciously Maths.
A receiver comes before an indirect object (a person after a preposition).
Don’t write the indirect object before the receiver.
● He studies with his friend Maths.
 WRITING SENTENCES PRACTICE
1. take / photos / they / every Monday

2. is making / he / at the moment / breakfast

3. to the club / the girls / go / on Saturdays

4. always / at nine o'clock / out of the garage / in the morning / drives / his car / he

5. a parking place / near the shops / they / find / rarely

6. often / have / at about three o'clock / a cup of tea / they / at the hotel / in the afternoon

7. after / Jim / sister / Mother / look / asked / his / to / younger

8. circus / went / with / we / ago / the / Two / my / to / parents / months

 PARAGRAPHING
First, make your poInt. Then, support it with evidence, examples, etc. Finally, link ideas and paragraphs.

A good topic sentence

presents just one
topic and is specific
enough and clear.
 PARAGRAPHING PRACTICE
Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence, circle the concluding sentence,
cross out the sentence that does not belong, and number the supporting sentences.
My brother has some disgusting and inconsiderate habits. He loves to chew on toothpicks. That would not be so
bad if he didn’t leave them lying all over the house. Sometimes they even get stuck in the carpet. Another bad
habit he has is walking through the house with his muddy boots. My cat’s breath smells like cat food. He will walk
right across a freshly washed floor.
He will take his boots off and leave them in the middle of the floor for everyone to trip over. He leaves hair all over
the shower and the soap. He doesn’t bother to rinse the shower out or to rinse the soap off. This is inconsiderate
because everyone else has to use the shower too. If my brother lived alone, he could be the slob that he is
without anyone else caring, but since he lives with other people, it
Rearrange the following sentences to make a paragraph.
1. Later on, people began to write on pieces of leather, which were rolled into scrolls.
2. In the earliest times, people carved or painted messages on rocks.
3. In the Middle Ages, heavy paper called parchment was used for writing and books were laboriously copied by
hand.
4. With the invention of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century, the modern printing industry was
born.
5. Some form of written communication has been used throughout the centuries.
CORRECTIONS
My brother has some disgusting and inconsiderate habits.
Supporting Sentence #1: He loves to chew on toothpicks
Detail: That would not be so bad if he didn’t leave them lying all over the house.
Detail: Sometimes they even get stuck in the carpet.
Supporting Sentence #2: Another bad habit he has is walking through the house with his muddy boots.
Detail: He will walk right across a freshly washed floor.
Detail: He will take his boots off and leave them in the middle of the floor for everyone to trip over.
Supporting Sentence #3: He leaves hair all over the shower and the soap.
Detail: He doesn’t bother to rinse the shower out or to rinse the soap off.
Detail: This is inconsiderate because everyone else has to use the shower too.
Conclusion: If my brother lived alone, he could be the slob that he is without anyone else caring, but since he lives with other
people, it would help if he showed a little more consideration for his family!
 Revise and publish
Read your writing loud and evaluate it by using this checklist.
● Are the sequence of topics and logically organized and are ideas easy to follow? (Take into account the purpose)
● Is the layout well and beautifully organized?
● Are my ideas clear, relevant, enough and complete?
● Is there unnecessary info?
● Is it interesting?
● Are ideas effectively joined with linkers?
● Is the vocabulary correct (choice or form), precise and wide? Does it fullfit the requirements of the task?
● Are grammar forms wide? Do they fullfit the task requirements?
● Are grammar forms correct?
○ Check you have a subject and a verb in every sentence.
○ Check word order
○ Check agreement subject-verb/ modifiers-noun
○ Check tense management.
○ Are grammar categories correct?
● Is the text mechanics (punctuation, capitalization and spelling) appropiately used?

Use an app to correct: “Online text correction”.

 MISTAKES SAMPLE
MECHANICS: PUNCTUATION ...the hotel I visited was really great ...

MECHANICS: WRONG SPELLING We had launch at noon.

MECHANICS: CAPITALIZATION i stayed ...

ISSUES

WRONG QUESTION STRUCTURE The hotel here you stay was beautiful?

WRONG SENTENCE STRUCTURE It’s taste is delicious

Something is unnecessary.

WRONG SENTENCE STRUCTURE I ___ from Colombia.

Missing verb:

WRONG SENTENCE STRUCTURE for me ____ was the language ...

Missing subject

WRONG SENTENCE STRUCTURE I can also say that aya the call in Mexico to Colombians
Something is confusing

WRONG SENTENCE STRUCTURE She is a Person honest.

Wrong Word order

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT Evelyn and Jennyfer was ...

ADJECTIVE-NOUN AGREEMENT Mario is from Spain bur her wife is from Colombia.

SINGULAR IS REQUIRED Vacations

PLURAL IS REQUIRED beautiful place (s)
WRONG WORD CHOICE We raised a 7 a.m.

WRONG TENSE In my last vacation I ride a bike

WRONG WORD FORM: I absolutely love sing.