Writing Map
Reflecting Memory & problem-solving
Unconnected, here and now (stream of consciousness).
Topic-driven with digress and return (instructions).
Time sequence (narratives).
Logical inductive or deductive (essays).
Attention Focus or Perspective
Beginning: Single focus, your own or another’s, but not both (“I did…” or “She did…”)
Exploring: Dual, your own and another’s as in correspondence. (Dialog or “We did…”)
Sustaining: Organization (“The company did…”).
Inspiring: Universal (“People always…”).
Language Audience
Self (notes)
Known individuals (correspondence)
Known groups (reports)
Community or specialized (news, science)
Skill Use computer apps
Type a few words
Format, print text with spell and grammar check. Edit with others.
Use online collaboration tools, like wikis.
Use apps for data analysis, AI, and graphic processing
Reasoning Rewrite multiple drafts
Seek help
Reread to find errors
Rewrite to improve understanding
Rewrite to create more impact on readers
Collaborating Interviews, websites, books
Single source
Choose multiple sources
Categorize sources
Prioritize sources
Complying Ethics, standards, genres
Haphazard
Have an identifiable genre
Use genre conventions reliably
Adapt conventions to content
Planning Purpose
Remember
Inform or entertain
Persuade
Coordinate
Reporting ideas or elements of stories
Fragments or imitative
Compare ideas
Integrate relevant analysis & synthesis
Introduce ideas from new fields