EDRG 3344-The Writing Process

The writing process is a step by step guide for a student to be able to gather their thoughts, organize them, and put them in writing. The writing process is for the students to have an effective essay. There are five steps in the writing process.

The first step is Prewriting. This step is for the student to gather their ideas and put them on paper. Students also identify who they may be writing to and why they are writing. This could be done by using a graphic organizer, semantic map or outline. In the book, it states that this step is for the student to c hoose a topic, consider purpose, for, and audience, and to generate and organize ideas for writing.

When the student has an idea of what they will be writing, they advance to the next step. In the drafting stage, students begin to write their ideas on paper. This stage is not for the intended to be free of mechanical errors, but instead focuses on the sentences being wrote. The content is more important than crossing the t's and dotting the i's. It is common for a teacher to ask a student to skip a line when writing the rough draft to prepare and leave space for revisions.

In the revising stage, step 3, students reread their writing and read out loud to their writing groups to receive outside ideas and perspectives for their paper. After discussions, students make changes reflecting their classmates, themselves, and their teacher's comments. The student is making sure that they have meet the needs of their readers by adding, substituting, deleting, and rearraging material. Once revisions have been made, there may be a conference with the teacher for late revisions or ideas. Then there is editing.

Next students edit their writing. The student may proofread their own writing multiple times from beginning to end and end to beginning. They make corrections as needed. At this time, students may switch papers in a group or with a neighbor to have them correct errors they may have missed. After the student has identified and corrected their mechanical errors, there may be a meeting with the teacher for a final insight on content and mechanical errors.

Finally, there is step 5, pulblishing. When publishing, the students finishehd their masterpice with a final copy of their work. Now and days, students use word processor to perfect their piece of writing. They may display this piece of written art or share it to their classmates. Writing is a process, one step at a time to perfect a piece of expression.

A Basketball Game to Remember

On a cold Saturday morning in January, Sealy High School played Bellville High for a place in the regional playoffs. The players all entered the gym to prepare for a life changing game. When the players reached the locker rooms, gym bags hit the floor, hoodies and sweat pants came off, and jerseys of red and white and blue and gold were revealed. It was warm up time. Players ran out on the court full of adrenaline after warm up and prepared for the rush of the game. It was the start of the game and the jump ball was being thrown up. Ashley, Amber, Kristen, and Sara were all in their places waiting for the pass.

After the first quarter, the game was going great. Plays were being made on the court. Ashley was passing with awesome accuracy. Kristen was precise on her shooting and Sara was blocking shots like a mother protecting her young. The communication from the players were putting numbers on the score board.

All of a sudden towards the end of the second quarter, the game was falling apart. Cici was becoming side tracked with her boyfriend in the bleachers. Sara continued to miss passes. Kristen was not calling the ball and was left open with a shot at the goal. There was no communication. The horrible defense was allowing the opposing team to score with the mistakes that were being made.

At half time, coach called a huddle. She said, " Put your game face on, you can come back and win. Talk to each other, call for the ball, pay attention, and use your team members to score. Let's go!" Half time ended and the game was on.

Coach Harold had spoke words of talen on the girls. They were scoring because they were communicating, paying attention, blocking the ball for defense, and moving the ball around to score. Sealy High School was coming back to win.

the game was tied at 62 points and 10 seconds left on the clock in the last quarter. Amber passed to Kristen and scored. Sealy High School won the game. Sealy was advancing to the regional playoffs.