Planning Professional writers plan their writing, sometimes at their desk, sometimes while engaged in other routine activities such as mowing the lawn or washing dishes. Novice writers need to understand the importance of planning and often require explicit directions on how to plan. Your students may need help and encouragement to think and read about a topic before they begin writing. The student messages soliciting information for their sponsored Learning Circle project will help your students plan. Drafting Drafting is the process of writing down ideas, organizing them into a sequence, and providing the reader with a frame for understanding these ideas.
Research continues to identify many advantages to having students write cooperatively.
At the idea stage, multiple perspectives help students explore the topic more extensively. Students working together on a computer often create higher quality drafts with a tighter focus on the topic. The immediate response provided by a writing partner during the composing stage helps students develop their ideas in a coherent way. Polishing Polishing refers to the process of editing and revising based on an evaluation of the writing. It is the hard work that a writer devotes to a piece of writing that is likely to reach a wide audience and serves as a reflection of oneself.