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 FAQs
Is the writing process really a fixed set of stages?
No. Contemporary composition studies treat the stages as overlapping and repeating rather than a fixed sequence.
Not according to contemporary research. Early process-based teaching, following Donald Murray in 1972, broadly described writing as pre-writing, writing and rewriting. Present-day research still accepts that some kind of process is involved in producing any text, but it holds that no codifiable or generalizable writing process exists. From the perspective of composition studies, an authentic writing process, one not contrived as part of a school assignment, does not necessarily follow a linear sequence of stages. Different activities overlap and can repeat many times while a single document is composed.
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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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