The Writing Process

Possible Quiz Material for ENSC 105W

Learning Objectives

• Threshold Concepts

  • Threshold concepts are concepts that appear strange, contradictory, or counter-intuitive, but are critical to understanding

    • Term derives from the field of sociology

    • Threshold concepts often become blocks that can get in the way

    • For this course, some of these are found in terms such as

      • Audience
      • persuasion
      • tone
      • contraries
      • strategies and process

    • We will identify these key concepts through the course

• Rule vs strategy based writing

  • Choose strategies rather than rules

    • Rule based approach to writing:

      • experience of failure
        • writers block or dislike of writing

    • STrategy based approach to writing

      • experience of success
        • break the rules as needed to achieve the goals required by a document

• Uniqueness of your writing process

  • Determined by four factors

    • Your usual practices when writing

    • Your environment while writing

    • Your attitude towards writing

    • Your audience’s potential responses

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• The writing is iterative

  • Writing process as a linear progression

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  • Writing as an iterative process

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      • Writing as a process

        • Prewriting

          • generating ideas, understanding

        • Planning

          • organising ideas and focusing

        • Drafting

          • writing initial drafts

        • Reflection

          • letting work sit coming back to it later

        • Peer review

          • feedback from others

        • revision

          • further developing and clarifying ideas

        • editing and proofreading

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• The importance of efficiency when writing

• A key difference between expert and novice writers

  • one of the biggest differences between novices and experienced writers are the time splits-

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  • The three P’s

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    • Don’t think to write, write to think

• Experiment with caution