I think, reflecting back on my process of writing our Wiki article, I may have gone through the parts without thinking of it. I know I planned out the article for what I wanted to do, then went straight to aligning the information in some particular fashion to make the article literate. Once I finished what I thought the article might end as, I went to revising. As for Drafting, I guess I did that just by writing the article itself, but I don't think I consciously went through a drafting process. I know I didn't consciously do monitoring, I just had a sense of “doneness” when I believed I was finished. After we had the critique in class, I did have another chance to go back over with “fresh eyes” for drafting. I got to look at the critique from the classmate (as well as taking a look at the Wiki drawing board) and realizing what I might want to add, subtract, expand, or reformat and reword. Most likely, that made the article that much better, and gave me opportunity to use the critique for future writings (as in where I should expand and where I should be more “to-the-point”)
The five functions are pretty much central to how writing is taught. I still remember all the times I had to write back in english classes when I was younger that they emphasized all five parts: Brainstorming (planning), Outline (alignment), Drafting, Revising, and Final Drafting. They didn't really focus on monitoring, but I feel that was because our papers back then were aimed toward a specific viewpoint before we got a chance to write, therefore cutting out the monitoring (or at least most of it). Monitoring may have come in with rereading our papers to make sure the point was addressed, but I digress...
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