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Organizing Your Writing Process: Invention, Research, Writing, and Revising

While in lower school levels you may have been able to draft up a written assignment the night before it was due you will find once you start writing at a university or college level that you will need to be a lot more organized in your writing of research papers. Organization can help you to focus your research process and help you to avoid any repetition of facts in your first written draft. Overall a paper will be more professional if you apply a bit of organization skills to the process. Naturally, your writing process consists of four stages, which are:

  1. invention,
  2. research,
  3. writing, and
  4. revising.