Chapter 8: One Writer's Process

This chapter is about a writer named Angela Franco and her writing process. She was assigned an essay for her Environmental Policies class.
First, she examines the assignment by reading and making notes writing the subject, purpose, audience, form, & assessment. She then explored and narrowed her assignment. She did this by clustering and freewriting. The cluster she writes the subject in the middle and connects details to it. Then the freewriting, she used water pollution then based on that she rephrased to narrow its focus. Then she reviewed her narrowed assignment and reassessed her topic.She did some research and then decided how she was going to organize her writing. She had 3 guidelines: 1. Review & record response 2. decide upon your thesis statement and think about your essay's possible content and organization 3. chose an overall method and reflect on it's potential effectiveness. After coming up with opening, middle, and closing she then put together her first draft. She then revised, and then revised again, edited, proofread, and then finished.