Lesson · E.3.1
The writing process
The four stages of the writing process, planning, drafting, revising, and editing, and what each stage catches that the others cannot.
ObjectiveE.3.1Read2 minExam weightVocabulary ≈ 31% of English and Language Usage
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- Name the writing process's four stages in order: planning, drafting, revising, and editing.
- Tell apart revising, big content changes, from editing, small surface fixes.
- Choose the right stage for a writing task described in a question.
What the lesson concludes
- The four stages are planning, drafting, revising, and editing, in that order.
- Planning narrows the topic and sets an outline before any full sentence is written.
- Drafting aims for a complete rough version, not a polished one.
- Revising fixes ideas and structure; editing fixes grammar, punctuation, and word choice.
- Fix structural problems through revision before you spend time editing sentence-level details.