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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
CHAPTER 2Pre-writing stage2.1 Introduction2.2 Analyzing audience2.3 Analyzing purpose2.4 Considering style and tone2.5 Generating ideas2.6 OutliningReflecting on…By and large, writers are usually recommended to bear in mind ‘contextualfactors’ when it comes to writing a text. Can you guess what these ‘contextualfactors’ might be?Imagine you have to write a document that describes the latest improvements ona particular product. How may this document differ when aimed at the head ofthe technical department and the general public? Could you provide a list ofdifferent groups of readers an engineer may address his/her documents to?How is your attitude towards the topic and your relationship with readers reflectedin your writing?Can you think of different ways of organizing ideas before writing a document?Which method do you usually prefer? Why?© The Authors, 2007. © Edicions UPC, 2007
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