Teachers need not be afraid of spending too much time on the pre-writing phase. It is quite conceivable that the pre-writing stage of the activity will take more time than any other stage in the process. Time spent in pre-writing will strengthen the rest of the process and ensure a more satisfactory final product. Drafting Adequate time must also be allotted for drafting. Just as brainstorming is the pouring out of ideas orally, drafting is the pouring out of words on paper to catch the ideas.
Students begin with the notes or ideas generated during pre-writing.
The first draft may be kept in a journal, writer's notebook, writing center, writing folder, or on a computer disk. Students are also encouraged to explore a topic without grammatical inhibitions or over concern about spelling and punctuation. Revising Many students do not see writing as a process. They must rethink the choices they have already made about the content and add, delete, or rearrange the material. Thus, writing becomes thinking made visible.