A presentation on using post-writing strategies

1. The Writing
Process
Using
Post-Writing
Strategies
Prepared by:
Joey F. Valdriz
“All writing is
rewriting.”
-Donald Murray

2. This time, using post-
writing strategies!
This part entails looking
over your draft critically,
paying attention to content,
organization, and mechanics
by using techniques like,
revising, editing, and
proofreading.
OBJECTIVE:
• To apply the process of
revision on your own
paper
RECALL
1. Using Reading Strategies
2. Critical Reading
3. Using Pre-Writing
Strategies
4. Writing Thesis
Statements
5. Creating Your Outlines
6. Developing Effective
Paragraphs

3. Revision is the general process of going back through
your whole draft, from start to end, and improving on
or clarifying your subject’s meaning. This includes
adding in, taking out, moving around, and polishing
certain parts of your draft to make a much more
understandable and easier for reading.
Editing (Proofreading) is the more meticulous
process of clarifying meaning by revising each
word and line of your draft. This includes
working on grammatical principles such as
subject-verb agreement, verb tense, noun and
pronoun usage, prepositions, and sentence
transitions; and typographical matters such as
punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

4. Revision focuses on the bigger picture of
your draft.
Editing focuses on its finer details, making
sure every word contributes precise
meaning to your writing subject.

5. 1. Take a bird’s eye view of your draft, to
reread it as a whole.
Reviewing your draft this way lets you do
two things:
a. Check if you have attained your
writing purpose;
b. Check if you have used the language
and tone that best serve your writing
purpose.

6. 2. Review your draft portion by portion and
adding in, filtering, and re-organizing
content according to form and flow.

7. Do I have a big idea I want to express, an
important message to send out? Do I have
an audience who will listen to me? Who is
my audience?
What is my purpose for writing? Have I
achieved it?
What language and tone do I take in my
writing? What point of view and voice?
Are all these appropriate to my purpose for
writing, and the audience I am speaking to?

8. Do I have enough credibility to speak on
my chosen subject? Can I back up all of
my discussions on the subject with
confidence and sufficient knowledge?
Does my draft make a central point?
Have I defined the limits of my draft
well, so that only essential information is
included?
What form of writing does my draft
take? Is it the best venue for my ideas to
be expressed?

9. Does the beginning of my draft draw the
reader in? Does it introduce my subject
to the reader well?
Do my succeeding points support my
beginning statements? Does each idea
connect to the next one? Do all the
sections of my draft move my
discussions on the subject forward,
toward the conclusion?

10. Does the conclusion make the reader
think? Does it answer all the reader’s
questions on my subject?
Is the pace of my draft just right?
Does the draft read smoothly and
coherently overall?
What are the strengths of my draft?
What are the weaknesses of my draft?

11. Never make the mistake of editing your
works before revising the content.
You will be required multiple re-readings
of your draft with each re-reading having a
different editing focus from the last.
Take as many re-readings as you can until
you are sure that all possible errors have
been addressed.

16. Taken from: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/writing/symbols.htm

17. Go over a draft of any writing assignment
given to you in your English class. Use
the questions given in this lesson to guide
your revisions. Make sure that you
provide answers to the questions.
Afterward, summarize your draft’s
progress using the following categories:
1. Content and Meaning
2. Structure
3. Grammar and mechanics

18. SOURCE:
Rodriguez, Maxine Rafaella C. and Marella
Therese A. Tiongson. 2016. Reading and
Writing Skills. Manila: Rex Book Store, Inc.