steps to writing an essay

setting the content

"Does this writing say what I want to say, in the way I want to say it ???"

2nd draft

Change/ rewrite your paper based on your own new thoughts and on the advice of those who conferenced you. You must have two drafts completed before you write and turn in your final copy.

draft 1

Organize your prewriting by writing paragraphs in the order you plan to write your paper. Then, once you have the paragraphs roughed out, add detail and/or examples to your prewriting.

prewriting

Select some of the best ideas (or most useful) from your brainstorm and begin to organize them into thoughtful sentences. This will give you a list of topic sentences.

conference

Talk with one person at a time about what their perception is of your writing. Did they understand the ideas that you thought you wrote the way you intended them to understand?? Jot down notes based on what the person tells you about paper.

2nd conference

The drafting should be revised once more till your totally happy with your paper

self edit

check and correct your own punctuation, grammar, spelling, and mechanics

revise

improve the content of your writing by adding, deleting, or changing words, sentences, or paragraphs

brainstorming

think of and accept many ideas