Technical Writing - e-BUC

36PART II. The writing processThe chapters that follow develop in detail the three main stages of the writing process–prewriting,writing and post-writing—to help you improve your writing skills. Chapter 2focuses on the pre-writing stage, in which you must examine your purpose(s), determineyour audience, consider the style and tone to adopt, gather data and decide how to organizeinformation. Chapter 3 is based on the writing stage itself. In this chapter you will learn todevelop paragraphs, to order information and to provide coherence to your document whiledrafting your text. Chapter 4 deals with the final stage of the writing process, the postwritingstage. This stage is essential for successful writing as it allows you to polish yourdocument for a perfect final version. For practical purposes, the three stages of the writingprocess are described in this book in the order described above but remember that thisprocess is dynamic and flexible, and that the different stages often overlap. Therefore, youmay go back and forth at your convenience while you draft your document.© The Authors, 2007. © Edicions UPC, 2007