The document outlines the writing process, which consists of 5 stages: pre-writing, writing the first draft, revising, editing, and publishing. The pre-writing stage involves brainstorming ideas. In the first draft stage, writers put their ideas into sentences and paragraphs. During revising, writers refine their work by removing unnecessary words, clarifying ideas, and making changes based on feedback. In the editing stage, writers proofread for correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and word choice. Finally, publishing involves preparing a final copy of the writing to hand in or share with others. The writing process is intended to help students develop their writing skills through progressive refinement of their work.

1. THE WRITING PROCESS

2. WHAT WRITING IS?
Writing is one of the skills that help learners gain independence,
creativity, fluency and express their feelings through the power of
written words. To write any paper, it is necessary to follow a plan. It is
called Writing Process, which is a sequence of steps to follow to help
any writer or students develop and shape their ideas to the point that
they can write about them clearly and in a structure that will help you to
show them well. Also, in this process there are some important clue
points that teachers and students must consider. Such as, students
must be encouraged to think about audience. Who is the writing for?
What does the reader need to know? It is also important for students
realize that what they put on their papers can be changed at any time,
but it is with the purpose to improve the writing. Now, it is important to
know learning to write is like learning to read; it involves a series of
steps. There are five distinct stages a writer must follow to record
research, observations, experiences, thoughts and so on.

3. PRE-WRITING
It is a phase where students come up with ideas; it is according to a
specific topic, so it can be conducted through brainstorming. Students
have opportunity to write everything coming to their mind related to a
given topic, but at the same time; teachers can also elicit ideas,
vocabulary, phrases using different strategies. Also, it is possible to
comprise this phase making use of free writing. It means students can
write a lot of ideas, don’t stop writing, just let the ideas flow without
worrying about mistakes, and then sort their ideas and choose which
one they will use to write their story.

4. WRITING THE FIRST DRAFT
Students are ready to move to their first drafting stage. It is to put the
ideas previously gathered into sentences and paragraphs. It is a stage
where writers start connecting everything they have. Provide feedback
in this stage is very important. First, it allows teachers to see where
students are having problems. Also, it immediately communicates to
students that writing involves progressive refinement.

5. Revision is the key to an effective
paper. Here students start thinking
more deeply about what they have
written, such as their reader needs
and expectations. Also, students
can ask to themselves some
important questions. For instance:
Is their organization effective? Do
readers need to know about a
specific point before they can
understand another one? How much
support will each idea need to
convince or get the attention of
readers? At this stage, students
reread their drafts, refine their
writing by removing unnecessary
words, expressions, clarifying
ambiguous parts and making each
sentence as accurate and concise as
possible. They can change things to
their work based on other readers’
suggestions, such as their teacher
or classmates.
Feedback is very important too.
Students must continue receiving
feedback because when students start
receiving a constructive one on early
drafts from the teacher and improve
their writing, they immediately see the
benefits of following a writing process.
As a result, they start developing their
ability to diagnose their own writing
problems.
REVISING

6. EDITING
The editing stage is distinct from the revision stage. It must be done
after revising stage. Here, students must go through their writing line by
line. Some things to check in this stage are: Have I used the same word
too many times? If so, I must change it, looking for another alternative.
Are any of my sentences so hard to understand? If so, I can rewrite
them to make my idea clear. Are my sentences grammatically correct?
Revise present, past and future tense. Is everything spelled correctly?
Proofread as many times as necessary. Have I used punctuation marks
correctly? It often causes difficulties; check it carefully.

7. Publish can mean different things. It
depends on the type of writing
produced and the reason. For
instance, publishing for students can
mean to prepare a neatly handwritten,
to hand a final copy of the writing or
publishing it in a blog spot. It also,
can extend to a public performance,
such as a speech or debate. It is a
complex process and if teachers do
not give the appropriate tool, it can
lead to students’ frustration. As with
the speaking skill, it is necessary to
provide a supportive environment for
the learners, keep calm and be patient
with them because it is clear, it
requires time to complete each one of
the stages. As a result, finally your
students will be able to reach the final
phase handing a great and successful
paper.
PUBLISHING

8. Finally, it’s clear; we are connected to one
another in every moment. We get that
connection in a lot of ways. So, if we realize
writing is one of the ways we more get
interaction with others in our everyday lives. As
a result, it is very important, we as teachers to
help our students to improve this skill, which
will help them not only in their school
experience, but also in their daily life.