Power+Ps+of+the+Writing+Process


 * ==The The Power Ps==
 * ===Plan (Prewrite)===
 * Trait Focus: Ideas, Organization
 * Collect and Select Ideas
 * What am I going to write about?
 * Do I have enough information to start?
 * Where could I go to get more information?
 * Keeping a Writer's Notebook
 * Purpose
 * Why am I writing?
 * To tell an entertaining story ?
 * To inform?
 * To explain?
 * To persuade?
 * Audience
 * Who am I writing for? (Myself, my teacher, a general audience, etc.)
 * What do my readers need to know?
 * What do I want readers to learn?
 * Decide Form
 * How am I going to present my ideas?
 * Narrative
 * Expository writing
 * Functional writing
 * Letters
 * Notes
 * Lists
 * Poem
 * Organize
 * Where do I begin and where am I going?
 * Methods of Organization
 * Chronological
 * Factual list
 * Compare / Contrast
 * Organizers
 * ===Package (Draft)===
 * Trait Focus: Ideas, Organization
 * Create draft piece. – Package the plan by putting it together on paper.
 * ===POP! (Revise)===
 * Trait Focus: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency
 * Make the writing //POP!//
 * // POP // words and ideas in and out to improve my writing. Can I change the order of things to make my writing //POP// and my ideas easier to understand?
 * Do my words //POP// and hold the interest of my reader? Are my words “juicy”?
 * Do my sentences //POP// and flow?
 * Does my voice //POP// out of my writing?
 * ===Polish (Edit)===
 * Trait Focus: Conventions
 * Does my writing effectively communicate in Standard English (unless appropriate to a character in a story)?
 * Are my CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation and Spelling) in order?
 * ===Publish with Pizzazz! (Share with Readers)===
 * Trait Focus: Presentation
 * Is this piece ready to share with my readers?.
 * Is my work neat and pleasing to the eye so that people will want to read my work?