English Teaching

ELT365 · Day 200 — The stages of writing

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Idea — Writing is rarely linear: planning, drafting, revising and editing loop and overlap. Teaching the stages explicitly stops learners treating a first draft as a finished text.

Example — A learner who brainstorms, drafts, then edits spelling last produces clearer work than one who writes once and stops.

Try — Break your next writing task into three visible steps — plan, draft, edit — and give time to each. Don't merge them.


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