Boniface Mungai
Professor Susan Savaria
ENL 101-6106
6th November 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Research question: How is “good” writing achieved?
The process
What is writing? Writing is a process that involves at least four distinct steps: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. It is known as a recursive process. While you are revising, you might have to return to the prewriting step to develop and expand your ideas. Although prewriting is the first activity you engage in, generating ideas is an activity that occurs throughout the writing process.
Drafting occurs when you put your ideas into sentences and paragraphs. Here you concentrate upon explaining and supporting your ideas fully. Here you also begin to connect your ideas. Regardless of how much thinking and planning you do, the process of putting your ideas in words changes them; often the very words you select evoke additional ideas or implications.
Revision is the key to effective documents. Here you think more deeply about your readers’ needs and expectations. The document becomes reader-centered. At this stage, you also refine your prose, making each sentence as concise and accurate as possible. Make connections between ideas explicit and clear.
Editing is Checking for such things as grammar, mechanics, and spelling. This is the last process while writing. Make sure all the process is done before doing this.
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