See It in Practice

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In order to help you have a better idea about how a strong writing process will help you as you write your own essay, for each area of the Writing Process area of the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab, you'll see a demonstration of how a student might approach each step. In this first area, you'll see the student’s assignment sheet and hear a discussion of the key things she must consider for her assignment.

Then, for each of the other areas of The Writing Process—Prewriting Strategies, Audience Awareness, Voice, Introductions & Conclusions, Thesis Sentence, Paragraphing, Essay Writing, and Revising & Editing, you'll see how the student approaches these steps given her specific assignment. As you watch each step, you'll want to think about how you might apply each step to your own assignment, as you'll be given a chance to engage in each step with your own writing assignment.