Chapter 5 Planning

The Beginning Steps

The composing habits of mind you developed in Chapter 1 “Writing to Think and Writing to Learn” through Chapter 4 “Joining the Conversation” should be applied to a writing process that works for you. When you start planning a writing project, you will need to understand the relationships among the three corners and the three sides of the rhetorical triangle described in Chapter 4 “Joining the Conversation”: voice, message, and audience, as well as attitude, reception, and tone. After you have these core elements of the triangle in place, you are ready to map out your writing.