{"id":1257,"date":"2017-10-18T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1257"},"modified":"2017-11-20T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:38:46","slug":"the-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/chapter\/the-writing-process\/","title":{"raw":"The Writing Process","rendered":"The Writing Process"},"content":{"raw":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Welcome to The Writing Process!<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIn this step-by-step support area, you will find everything you need to know about writing a paper.\r\n\r\nHave you ever received a writing assignment, thought \u201cThis won\u2019t take long\u201d and then stayed up all night writing the night before your assignment was due because it ended up taking a lot longer than you thought it would? If you have, you\u2019re not alone. Many beginning writers struggle to plan well when it comes to a writing assignment, and this results in writing that is just not as good as it could be. When you wait until the last minute and fail to engage in a good writing process, you\u2019re not doing your best work\u2014even if you did \u201cget all A\u2019s in high school\u201d as a procrastinator.\r\n\r\nResearch on writing tells us that the best thing writers can do to improve their writing is improve their writing process! With that in mind, this area of the <a href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\">Excelsior College Online Writing Lab<\/a> is going to take you through the steps of a thorough writing process\u2014one that involves many stages that will help you become a better writer.\r\n\r\nYou will learn about the recursive nature of the writing process, and you\u2019ll be taken through each step of writing a paper with instruction, activities, and videos. With support for prewriting activities, you\u2019ll learn how to generate and organize your ideas, and with support for paragraph building, you\u2019ll learn how to turn those ideas into well-organized paragraphs. You\u2019ll also learn about how rhetoric can help make your writing stronger, and you can even get some advice from fellow students about what to expect in college writing courses. If you\u2019re writing a paper and need help with any of the steps along the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\">The Writing Process<\/a> area can help.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/owl.excelsior.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/writingman.png?w=720\" alt=\"One Does Not Simply write a good essay at 2:00am the night before it's due.\" width=\"360\" height=\"213\" \/>","rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Welcome to The Writing Process!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In this step-by-step support area, you will find everything you need to know about writing a paper.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever received a writing assignment, thought \u201cThis won\u2019t take long\u201d and then stayed up all night writing the night before your assignment was due because it ended up taking a lot longer than you thought it would? If you have, you\u2019re not alone. Many beginning writers struggle to plan well when it comes to a writing assignment, and this results in writing that is just not as good as it could be. When you wait until the last minute and fail to engage in a good writing process, you\u2019re not doing your best work\u2014even if you did \u201cget all A\u2019s in high school\u201d as a procrastinator.<\/p>\n<p>Research on writing tells us that the best thing writers can do to improve their writing is improve their writing process! With that in mind, this area of the <a href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\">Excelsior College Online Writing Lab<\/a> is going to take you through the steps of a thorough writing process\u2014one that involves many stages that will help you become a better writer.<\/p>\n<p>You will learn about the recursive nature of the writing process, and you\u2019ll be taken through each step of writing a paper with instruction, activities, and videos. 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If you\u2019re writing a paper and need help with any of the steps along the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\">The Writing Process<\/a> area can help.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/owl.excelsior.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/writingman.png?w=720\" alt=\"One Does Not Simply write a good essay at 2:00am the night before it's due.\" width=\"360\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1257\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Writing Process. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: OWL Excelsior Writing Lab. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Excelsior College. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\">http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Writers&#039; Handbook. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":53936,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"The Writing Process\",\"author\":\"OWL Excelsior Writing Lab\",\"organization\":\"Excelsior College\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/owl.excelsior.edu\/writing-process\/\",\"project\":\"Writers\\' Handbook\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1257","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":546,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1257\/revisions\/1307"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/546"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1257\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-styleguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}