The Writing Process: Write - continued

Do Your Research

As you brainstorm and gather ideas, you may find you need to do some research. For some writing projects, you may not have all the information you need at hand to complete them.

Visit the next chapter in your Foundational Skills Package, “Researching Skills,” to learn about sources of information and different research strategies.

Organize Ideas, Points, and Details

Once you have generated your ideas, points, and details, your next step is to group the information into logical categories. How you group your ideas will depend upon what your end goal is. For this example, the student is writing a five-paragraph composition on conducting an apartment inspection.

Structured lists provide a simple, linear way to group information from the ideas you have generated. You can use bullets or sub-points to organize your ideas.

Example: