This is a short yet comprehensive presentation helpful especially in technical writing.

2. Where would
we be without
WRITING?

3. There’d be no books, magazines, or
newspapers. There’d be no
instructions for putting together a
bike or a VCR. There’d be no birthday
or anniversary cards. There’d be no
signs on the road to tell us where to
go.

4. Writing is a method of
communication. It uses marks
that we see and understand.
The marks we use to write
English are the letters of the
alphabet. They stand for
sounds.
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5. The
WRITING
Process

6. Stages in Writing Process
 Prewriting
 Writing
 Revising

7. Prewriting
 Planning stage
 Exploring ideas
 Choosing a topic
 Determining audience and purpose
 Deciding on main idea
 Developing and organizing ideas

8. Exploring Ideas
- To take inventory of your interests,
experiences, and ideas
HOW DO YOU EXAMINE
YOURSELF’S INTERESTS,
EXPERIENCES, AND IDEAS?

9. Ways of Exploring Ideas
 Interviewing yourself
 Free writing
 Journal writing
 Reading and saving
 Clustering
 Brainstorming
 Cueing

10. Questions for Interviewing
Yourself
1. What activities do I enjoy?
2. In what areas do I have special skills and/or
extensive knowledge?
3. What kinds of subjects arouse my curiosity?
4. To whom do I like to speak to and about what
topics?
5. To whom could I speak to learn more about
topics that interest me?
6. What has happened to me in the past or is
happening to me now that seems of special
interest?

11. Free Writing
 An embarrassing moment
 A fight or conflict
 Girl’s sports
 What do I do best
 Daydreams/nightmares
 Youth (or parents of today)
 A favorite place
 Life
 nature

12. Journal Writing
 Writing down your thoughts,
feelings, reflections, and
experiences in a notebook.

13. Reading and Saving
 Reading as much and as often as
possible from variety of sources:
newspapers, magazines, books,
encyclopedias, and so on.
 Jot down or cut out articles that
interest you and you can check
later on to know if there is any
topic potential for writing.

14. Clustering
 A technique that is used to
narrow a broad topic into one
appropriate for a short paper.

15. Example:
Sketch pad
crayons
drawing
painting
ART Da Vinci
Modern
dancing Museum
P.E.

16. Brainstorming
 A way of creating or combining as
many ideas as you can on a subject.
 Even just planning a party with friends
or trying to decide what to do on a
day off is an example of brainstorming
already.

17. Cueing
 Exploring topic by using cueing
devices such as the 5 W’s (who,
what, where, when, and why) or
the alphabets (a-z).

18. Examples of Cueing Process
Topic: Cycling A – Amphibians
Who: Me B – Basketball
What: Training C – Careful Driving
Where: Deserted
roads, away
D – Diving (kinds)
from traffic E – Emo
Why: To increase speed F – Fiction Stories
and endurance
G – Ghost Hunting
When: after school,
weekends

19. Brainstorming
Work in a group of five. Appoint one
person to take notes. Brainstorm on a
new product, something that does not
exist yet, such as a car that comes
when you call it. Toss out ideas for at
least ten minutes without discussing
its merits. Just keep the ideas flowing.
List all the ideas.

20. After brainstorming with
the group, choose one idea
and, working on your own,
write down why you think
it would be a good
product.
Do it for 5 minutes.

21. Then, present the summary of
your work to the group. Now, the
group will decide which of the
presented written output is the
best. Finally, plan and present an
advertisement about the product.
Make sure to convince your
audience with our advertisement.

22. Other groups will be
evaluating the
presentation and will give
their grades according to
how convincing their
advertisement is.

23. If Questions
1. If you would be someone else, who
would you be?
2. If you could change anything about
yourself what would you change?
3. If you could have any question
answered, what would it be?
4. If you could have live in any period of
history, when would it be?
5. If you could be any famous person
who has ever lived, who would you
choose to be?

24. What is writing to you?
Working in pair, make an acrostic for the
word WRITING.
You have 5 minutes to do that.
Example: W – whatever will come to my thoughts is
R – responded with joy and
I – indispensable action through
T – ticking down
I – in a piece of paper and making sure that
N – nothing is forgotten and
G – goal is set to aim.

25. Ways of Exploring Ideas
 Interviewing yourself
 Free writing
 Journal writing
 Reading and saving
 Clustering
 Brainstorming
 Cueing

26. Choosing and Narrowing
a Topic
 Choose a topic that can
be effectively covered in
the allotted amount of
space.

27. Determining Audience and
Purpose
 Determine your audience and
purpose before you begin
writing.
Topic Audience Purpose
- Support for readers of local newspaper to persuade
a cycling
Marathon
- tips on training cyclists who compete to inform
- How to learn classmates to instruct

28. Developing a Main Idea
and Support
 Statea main idea. Then
gather and organize
supporting information to
develop the main idea
effectively.

29. Organization of Supporting
Information
 Chronological order – information
arranged in time sequence
 Spatial order – arranged according to space
relationship
 Order of importance – arranged from least
to important or vice versa
 Comparison and Contrast – arranged
according to similarities and differences
between items
 Developmental – information arranged so
that one point leads logically to the next.

30. WRITING

31. Writing your first draft
 Translateyour prewriting
notes into sentences and
paragraphs, without
worrying about
punctuation, spelling,
grammar, or perfect
sentences.

32. Overcoming Writer’s
Block
 If
you feel incapable of
writing, always write
anything. Remember you
can always change it later.

33. REVISING FOR SENSE
 Edit for word choice and
sentences
 Edit for correct punctuation,
spelling, grammar and so on
 Proofread and publish

34. Now that you learned
the step by step
process in writing…are
you ready to express?