The document discusses various aspects of the writing process including discovering your beliefs through writing, focusing your ideas by collecting them and ordering them, drafting by getting ideas on paper, and revising for clarity and the audience. It also provides several quotes about writing, such as it being a way to apply your ideas and the importance of revision in creating easy to understand writing.

1. Writing The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. - David Hare

2. Idea Collect Focus Order Draft Revise

3. Idea Personal Others

5. Collect yourself others

6. Focus

8. Order narration illustration cause/effect comparison/contrast process analysis persuasion

9. Draft Answering your questions Ideas on paper Making sense of what you know

10. Revision audience clarity

12. Editing (p. 17) Grammar Punctuation Words

13. Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. - James Joyce