Definition of Writing The Concept of Writing
a. Prewriting
Prewriting is anything that someone does before he writes a draft of his document. It includes thinking, taking notes, talking to others, brainstorming,
outlining, and gathering information e.g., interviewing people, researching in the library, assessing data.
b. Writing the first draft
In this part, students put their ideas on paper. A draft is where students begin to record their ideas and add information of their research and experience. At this
time, they write without major attention to punctuation, grammar, or neatness. Some teachers may refer to this as a rough draft. The purpose of the rough draft is for the
student to focus on hisher ideas and get them on paper without the distraction or fear of making mistakes in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, or paragraph structure.
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c. Revising
Revising is as much a stage in the writing process as prewriting, outlining, and doing the first draft. Revising means that you rewrite a paragraph or paper,
building upon what has already been done in order to make it stronger.
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On the other words, revision is the gaps, clumsy wording, lack of clarity, inadequate detail, and
other problems can be transformed into a solid essay through the process of reworking.
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Revising can be said as checking or seeing again our own writing or someone else‟s writing whether there are some mistakes in the structure, spelling,
capitalization, words choice, organization of idea, content, etc. d.
Editing Editing is the next step after people revised his paper. When editing, someone
have to correct the errors that heher has made in hisher writing. When someone believe that he has said what he want to say the way he want to say it, he is ready to
edit their paper to be a better writing than before.
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George Braine and Claire May, Writing from Sources: A Guide for ESL Students, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1996, p. 29.
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Langan, op. cit., p. 33.
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Barbara Fine Clause, The Student Writer-6
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Ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004, p. 94.
So, there are four processes of writing according to Langan. First, prewriting is a process that can help someone think about and create some materials of his
writing. Next is writing the first draft. The first draft means the rough draft which consists of some main ideas and detail information without considering the language
features. Then, revising is checking the writing again in order to make correction. The final process is editing which the writer must correct their writing.