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Writing/Revising: a Recursive process

The "Post-writing" phase refers to each draft, not to one final submission. Each time you prepare to pass a draft to someone to read over, you should go through the following procedure:

All three stages are important. We can look at the writing process as follows, beginning with the Pre-Writing stage, narrowing the topic down, writing the report, revising, then editing and finally proof-reading. What we should also factor into the diagram is the element of recursion, because the movement down to the specifics is never linear.  There is always another shift back to a more general level of revision, where a re-reading reveals something you see can be expressed more clearly. So the diagram might look like this:

‘Diamond’ Model of Writing Process

Diagram

(Polished diamond?)