EN1150: Week 2 Assignment
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What are the steps in the writing process and what is included in each step?
This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s modules
and readings.
Before you can write an essay, it is important to first understand each step
of the writing process. The writing process contains several steps to help
you build your ideas in an organized fashion in order to engage the reader.
Writing Process
Answer the following questions. Refer back to Fig. 2.2 in Chapter 2 or Interactive 2A for information
on the writing process.
1. Describe the six steps or stages included in the writing process.
Step/Stage
Description
Prewriting
Choosing a topic, brainstorming ideas, and collecting information.
Planning
Creating a thesis statement, developing a plan outline.
Drafting
Writing the introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion
Editing and
Proofreading
Improving grammar, spelling, and clarity
Revising
Improve ideas, organization, and voice.
Submitting
Prepare the paper for submission through paper design and
documentation.
Prewriting Practice
All good writing should be organized into well supported ideas before you begin. Tasha, a student at
UMA, has been asked to write a paragraph about her major for homework. She decided to plan out her
writing by using a graphic organizer. Study the graphic organizer below, and answer the following
questions. Refer back to Fig. 2.4 in Chapter 2 or Interactive 2B for information on clustering and
prewriting. You can also see a video about the Medical Administrative Assistant program HERE.
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2. Based on the supporting details that Tasha has filled her graphic organizer with, what is she
planning on telling the reader about her major?
She plans on telling them about the different jobs within the medical administrative assistant major.
3. Each bubble in the graphic organizer that branches out from the center circle(Medical
Administrative Assistant) represents a topic that will eventually get written as a body paragraph in a
five paragraph essay. Tasha only needs to keep three of the four ideas she came up with. Which
one should be eliminated? Why?
