The first step in the six stages is Understanding the task. This involves understanding the assignment which means you either have to read it or create it. The next step is called Gathering the Data and this deals with retrieving information from texts, magazines, or from online. Step three is Invention and in this stage you define what you are going to write about. It can also be called "brainstorming" or "predrafting". Step four is Drafting, it's where you sketch out your paper, and results in a complete rough draft. Step five is Revision and it's a two step process where you look at your draft at a global and local level making sure everything is coherent and unified. The last step is Editing and this step deals with editing at the setence level, making sure grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling are all correct.
The writing style that I was taught is very similiar to these six steps. I always had to think about the assignment and what the main question was. Then gathering data is the big part that seemed to take the longest for me,but were the easiest part in the whole writing processed. The hardest step for me is the editing process. The only part that is different in the six steps is that the revision process was not as big as in is the six steps.
