| A | B |
| Stage I | Prewriting |
| Stage II | Writing A Draft |
| Stage III | Evaluation and Revision |
| Stage IV | Proofreading and Publishing |
| Three things you choose in stage I | topic; audience; purpose |
| topic | subject of your paper or essay |
| audience | to whom you are writing |
| purpose | why are you writing (for what reason) |
| purpose 1 | to share information |
| purpose 2 | to express oneself |
| purpose 3 | to create literature |
| purpose 4 | to persuade |
| After you choose topic then you must: | generate ideas |
| brainstorming | one way to generate ideas |
| web/map | another way to generate ideas |
| list/outline | still another way to generate ideas |
| After you generate ideas, you must: | Organize information |
| chronological | time order; order of events |
| categories | classfication by type |
| order of importance | least important to most important or vice versa |
| spatial | description by location |
| One thing you may do in stage II as you write your draft: | add more information as you write |
| Define evaluation | judging content for value |
| Define revision | making changes to content |
| Revision technique #1 | cut (taking out uneeded information) |
| Revision technique #2 | add (adding info that helps the paper) |
| Revision technique #3 | replace (cutting something, but replacing it with something else) |
| Revision technique #4 | reorder (same info, different order) |
| Judging for sentence variety would be in what stage? | stage III-evaluation |
| judging the thesis statement would be in what stage? | stage III-evaluation |
| In what stage would you correct your spelling? | stage IV proofreading |
| Things you look to correct in stage IV would be: | grammar; usage; mechanics |
| Sharing your writing with the class takes place in which stage? | Stage IV |