Writing Process

The writing process takes you from the very beginning of a writing project—finding topics and analyzing audience and purpose—all the way to the end—writing and revising the rough draft. The following chapters focus on some of the key phases of that process:

• Strategies for team-writing
• Topic ideas
• Audience analysis
• Situation
• Brainstorming and invention
• Narrowing
• Outlining
• Information-collecting strategy
• Libraries, documentation, cross-referencing
• Strategies for peer-reviewing and team writing
• Power-revision techniques