A writing process is the set of mental and physical steps a person works through to produce a piece of text, involving tools that range from pencils and brushes to keyboards and touchscreens, each with its own effect on how a writer works. Because of that variety, writing processes are highly individualized and task specific, often mixing talking, drawing, reading and browsing alongside the writing itself. Pre-writing strategies can include clustering, free writing and asking who, what, when, where, why and how questions to generate material before a draft is composed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearYear marks Donald Murray's 1972 manifesto that launched the process movement in composition pedagogy, not a single founding date for writing processes in general. Core ClaimA writing process is a set of mental and physical steps that someone takes to create any type of text. 1 Sources
1. Writing process (Wikipedia)
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In 1972, Donald M. Murray published a brief manifesto titled 'Teach Writing as a Process Not Product'
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A writing process is a set of mental and physical steps that someone takes to create any type of text.
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