Etapas del Proceso de Escritura: De la Preescritura a la Publicación

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Escritura en Inglés

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Estructura de Oraciones y Párrafos Básicos
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Fundamentos de la escritura en Inglés

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Brandon Argel Verdeja Domínguez

Hace 6 años

Writing process:

What do you want to communicate?
Why is it important?
Who is your audience?

Prewriting: Explore topics and ideas
Drafting: Put all the ideas on paper
Revising: Put only the main idea
Editing: Fix grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
Publishing: Share the writing with your audience . I think (for me) the most difficult step of writing is prewriting because I´m not very creative

Abraham de Jesús Arroyo Medina

Hace 5 años

Great

Wilson Araujo Karina Guadalupe

Hace 5 años

Thanks

Jose Antonio Rojas Ollarves

Hace 6 años

Personally i really love when the teachers write in the resources side.

Leonardo Alain

Hace 5 años

Absolutely!

Julio Sarango

Hace 5 años

Remember: You should use capital I.

Gibrán Pelayo Miranda

Hace 6 años

In my opinion, stage 3 (Revising) of the writing process is ++the most difficult part++ to do; after the stage 2 (drafting), it is now time to decide what will be left out and what will stay in your essay/article/blogpost. It can be difficult and heartbreaking when you need to meet some criteria, and you need to erase lines, paragraphs and ideas 😢 ... And ++the easiest part++ to do is stage 4 (Editing/Proof writing), as I loooooove ortography 🧐 and wording 🧐 in written tasks, at least in Spanish, and now improving my English to do the same.

Sara Hernandez

Hace 6 años

Hi! Maybe you should try this coruse I loved it, and it helped me improve my writing skills. :smiley:

Gibrán Pelayo Miranda

Hace 6 años

I'll consider you kind suggestion, @Saradtech. Thanks 😊

Iris Valentina Barrios

Hace 6 años

Prewriting

Writing process

What do you want to communicate?
Why is it important?
Who is your audience?

Prewriting: You are going to all the possible topics and ideas.
Drafting: You are going to use all the ideas you had during prewriting and put them down on pape.
Revising: You are going to look for your format and content. You can go back to drafting and revising as many times as you need.
Editing: You are going to fix grammar errors, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
Publishing: You are going to share the writing with your audience.

The most difficult step is writing when I don't have ideas. :(

Claudia Estefany Cáceres

Hace 5 años

Thanks

Marta Raimundi

Hace 3 años

maybe, you could do a Braimstorm with a work from the topic you what to writer about.

Pamela Natali Hernández Torres

Hace 6 años

The most difficult thing for me is the drafting, because well, I know how to communicate but in Spanish, but then, when I have to make a switch to my English brain-side, when I want to talk about a difficult/unusual topic, it's difficult to try to avoid the translator and push myself to write on my own. The easiest (and funniest) thing is the editing process, I don't know why, but it's so satisfying for me to find typos, incorrect punctuation and then correct them, I feel joy doing it 😂

Lina Giraldo

Hace 4 años

Hi Pam. If you are there yet, how was your advance? Better? Do you have any tips?

Luis Alonso Rivera Mejía

Hace 3 años

NJHH

Dayana Andrea Sánchez

Hace 5 años

Personally, the publication is more difficult because I am very insecure.

Sara Hernandez

Hace 5 años

Hi Dayana! Try to share what you write and get feedback, I think this way you'll grow your confidence. :smile:

FEMENINO Centeno Jimenez

Hace 6 años

Estoy interesada pero como puedo obtener las clases

Sara Hernandez

Hace 6 años

¡Hola Amaira! ¿Qué es lo que estás buscando? Tal vez pueda ayudarte.

Nicolas Munevar

Hace 5 años

Tal vez te refieres a las clases en vivo, las puedes buscar en este link https://platzi.com/clases/english-activities/

Jaime Andrés González Cardona

Hace 5 años

I have problems to organize in right way the words, been coherent.

Lina Giraldo

Hace 4 años

How were you going in the last year? Did you overcome that issues? In this particular, moment I have the same problem, sometimes I do it correctly, but another I fail completely, and the worst part is: I don't realize that!

Miguel Andres Rendon Reyes

Hace 6 años

The processes have more difficult when ya don't initialize it correctly. but all is fresh when you take the right to each step.

Sebastián Arredondo Posada

Hace 6 años

Good class. I'd recommend you guys/girls when you are gonna write, in the third step try to obtain feedback, please take time to keep in mind someone's opinion. That can help you to improve your final text. ✍🏻

Sara Hernandez

Hace 6 años

Hi Sebas! Great tip, thanks for sharing. :smiley:

Braulio Alberto Bueno Pabon

Hace 5 años

Sara Hernandez

Hace 5 años

Thanks for sharing Braulio. :smiley:

Miguel Andres Rendon Reyes

Hace 6 años

The Revising is like loop, that back forward the second or even the first stage, cuz you revising the content as a spectator and since this point of view, improve the content.

Leonardo Alain

Hace 5 años

For me:

Most difficult: Revising
Difficult: Prewriting
Normal: Editing
Easy: Publishing
Easiest: Drafting

Gino Castro Torres

Hace 5 años

Drafting is definitely the most difficult to me!

Wilfredo Lafaurie Peña

Hace 5 años

I think that the most difficult stages process of writing is editing because you need to have a lot of knowledge in grammar if you want to get an excellent result in this.

Mery Johanna Gutiérrez Ortiz

Hace 4 años

Yes, I agree with you. In my case, I pay more attention to the story and if my writing is clear for my audience.

Juan Camilo Maldonado Perez

Hace 6 años

For me, the most difficult stage is Drafting, because I have many ideas, but it's hard for me to put them together and give them coherence, that's what I'm working on. The easiest stage is Publishing, because I don't feel sorry for myself, and I don't mind making mistakes. That's what Platzi is for!

María del Consuelo Irastorza Vázquez

Hace 5 años

you will see all the stages you go through during your writing process.

This process begins when you understand three things. What do you want to communicate, why is it important for you to say it, and who is your audience. There are five different stages during your writing process.

The first is pre-writing. At this stage, you will explore all possible topics and also you will gather some ideas. When you go to stage number two, the writing, you will use all the ideas that you had during pre-writing and you will put them on paper.

After that, you can move on to stage number three, the review. This stage is where you will look for your format and content. When you're comfortable with your content, you can move on to stage four, which is editing. In this stage, you will correct all the errors you have in grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation. When you have your final text, it is time for stage number five, the publication. Share your writing with an audience.

As they say out there. "Practice makes a master"

Platzi Team

Hace 5 años

For me, the most difficult is when I think about that I will write.

Darilesy Betancourt Cupul

Hace 5 años

Writing is a hard work for me. Because, writting has some rules to follow all the time, it has the punctuaction (Literality a dot can change the maning of an oration, making it have a complete different mean), and finally the the way words are spelled correctly

For example: Tougth, Trought, Truht. If you don´t are sure how the word should be written you can make bigs mistakes and change the entire mean.

Derlys Dominguez Motta

Hace 5 años

For me the most difficult is "revising" because summarize al the topics in a only is a titanic task.

Aaron Contreras Garibay

Hace 5 años

Wow writing itself has a process.

Recursos

Understanding how writing works behind the scenes can transform the way you approach any text. Before putting a single word on paper, you need to clarify three essential elements: what you want to communicate, why it matters to you, and who your audience is [0:12]. Once these three pillars are clear, the actual writing process unfolds in five well-defined stages.

What happens during pre-writing and drafting?

The first stage is pre-writing [0:38]. This is the moment where you explore all possible topics and gather ideas freely. There is no pressure to organize or polish anything yet — the goal is simply to brainstorm and collect raw material.

Once you have enough ideas, you move into drafting [0:48]. During this stage, you take everything generated in pre-writing and put it down on paper. Think of it as building the skeleton of your text. It does not need to be perfect; it just needs to exist.

Why is revising different from editing?

Many writers confuse these two stages, but they serve very different purposes. Revising [0:58] focuses exclusively on format and content. You are not hunting for grammar mistakes here. Instead, you are checking whether your reader will be able to understand your message clearly.

Double check that your ideas flow logically.
Confirm that your content matches your original purpose.
Make sure the structure supports your reader's comprehension.

An important detail is that you can move back and forth between drafting and revising as many times as you need [1:16]. This flexibility is what makes the writing process non-linear and adaptive.

What do editing and publishing involve?

When you feel satisfied with your content, it is time for editing [1:24]. This fourth stage is where you fix all errors related to:

Grammar.
Spelling.
Capitalization.
Punctuation.

Notice how editing comes after revising — not before. Correcting surface-level mistakes only makes sense once the deeper content issues have been resolved.

Finally, stage five is publishing [1:38]. This means sharing your writing with an audience. Whether it is a blog post, an essay, or a class assignment, publishing is what gives your work its purpose.

How can you apply these stages effectively?

The key takeaway is that each stage has a specific focus, and skipping or merging them often leads to weaker writing. Pre-writing feeds drafting, drafting feeds revising, and only when your message is solid should you move into editing and publishing.

What stage do you find the most challenging or the easiest when you write something? Share your thoughts in the discussion section.

Resumen

What happens during pre-writing and drafting?

Why is revising different from editing?

Double check that your ideas flow logically.
Confirm that your content matches your original purpose.
Make sure the structure supports your reader's comprehension.

An important detail is that you can move back and forth between drafting and revising as many times as you need [1:16]. This flexibility is what makes the writing process non-linear and adaptive.

What do editing and publishing involve?

When you feel satisfied with your content, it is time for editing [1:24]. This fourth stage is where you fix all errors related to:

Grammar.
Spelling.
Capitalization.
Punctuation.

Notice how editing comes after revising — not before. Correcting surface-level mistakes only makes sense once the deeper content issues have been resolved.

How can you apply these stages effectively?

What stage do you find the most challenging or the easiest when you write something? Share your thoughts in the discussion section.

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