Mohammed Abu Al Saud
Informal writing #2
The writing process
Writing is a skill which is simply learned by practice and more practice, but in order to practice
your writing you need to go through a variety of procedures and stages, which what we like to call
the “writing process” or pre writing or whatever the heck your teacher describes it as. These procedures
differ from one writers taste to another, each of them has their own technique. This writing process
proves that the work of a writer is not linear, but its a step by step procedure, in which the writer
changes his mind and rewrites, organize and edit. Having said that, now we know most writers success
are determined on how well they revise their work.
In the Pre-writing stage I usually do a little of research to establish a foundation or a base on which I
would write about, in this stage I would usually declare the purpose of my writing by making an
outline. In my outline I arrange and rearrange my thoughts and ideas that usually have the habit of
clashing against each other as I'm writing. One thing I enjoy doing is drawing a mushroom, which is
the very first writing technique that I learned in Kinder Garden. The reason why I like it is because I
can “literally” write whatever I want to write and scribble and draw little puppies for all I care. It
helps me plan out my thoughts thoroughly.
Second step, which is a very crucial step for me; is the body of your essay. During this stage I chose
what ideas and information I extracted from my little mushroom, as well of creating an introduction
and conclusion for each paragraph. For many writers this is paring down what you produced with the
pre-writing stage, and I usually find that I had to disregard many ideas that didn't fit the final product
of my essay. This is also the organizational stage where I have to use my writing instincts to chose what
I should include and