Writing Process/Writing Traits

Writing Process

100

In what stage of the writing process do you brainstorm ideas?

Prewriting 

200

What are the five steps in the writing process?

Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, final draft/paper

300

In the last step of the writing process (final paper), what do you need to consider?

Neat writing in cursive?

Did I follow the correct heading?

400

In what stage should you check that all paragraphs are indented and that you followed the rules of capitalization and punctuation?

Revising 

500

Tell me two things that happen in the rough draft stage. 

• write the ideas from your prewriting in complete sentences
• Add interesting details to support main points
• Develop an engaging introduction, a good body, and strong conclusion paragraph
• Have a clear topic sentence for each paragraph
• Arrange sentences and paragraphs in a logical order and use transition words to link ideas

Writing Traits

100

What are the five writing traits? 

ideas, organization, voice, sentence fluency, conventions 

200

What are supporting and non supporting ideas?

• SUPPORT and develop the topic (supporting ideas)
• Ideas that DO NOT support the topic are non-supporting ideas

300

what are conventions?

Use correct punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling

400

What should you vary the length of in your writing?

Sentences (sentence fluency)

500

What two things should you think about when writing?

The audience and the purpose