Tuesday, February 6

My Webography Topic: Using Blogs in English Process Writing

Process writing focuses on the process of creating writing rather than the end product (Tompkins, 1990). The creation of writing occurs in basically five stages: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Prewriting is the planning and idea-gathering stage. Drafting refers to time spent composing a rough draft. Revising is the process of improving the draft. Students reread their work and share it with a partner or small group; they then make changes in the writing based on the feedback from their peers. Editing is the process of correcting mechanical errors. Publishing, or sharing, is accomplished in a wide variety of ways when the work is in final form. (Gardner & Johnson, 1997; Tompkins, 1990).
Apart from being carried out in real classroom, process writing can be implemented by using blogs.
see:
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/instrctn/in5lk11.htm

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