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5.5.1 The Writing Process
English · Grade 10 · 4 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Stages of the writing process
- Pre-writing: generating and organising ideas
- Drafting
- Revising for content and structure
- Editing and proofreading
What you will be able to do
- describe the stages of the writing process
- generate and organise ideas before drafting
- revise a draft for content and structure
- edit and proofread a final version
Key questions
“Why is the first thing you write never the thing you should submit?”
Lessons
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Planning and drafting
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizGetting ideas out, putting them in order, and writing a first version quickly.
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Revising and editing
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizTwo different jobs, done in the right order, on a draft you are willing to change.
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Generating before drafting
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizGetting ideas out and into an order so the first draft has somewhere to go.
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One piece, all the way through
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizTaking a short public-sector text from numbered list to proofread version, without skipping a stage.