According to Greek mythology, Zeus, the king of all the gods, suffered from a terrible headache. He ____ his son, Hephaestus, the god of the ____, and Zeus ____ him to offer any ____ he possibly could. Hephaestus ____ his ax and brought it down ____ on his father’s head. Out sprung Athena, the goddess of wisdom, ____ grown and ____ perfect. This sudden birth of perfection is ____ a good model for the writing process, but too many student writers think it ____ When students are given an ____, they do what students typically do—they ____! After wasting the required amount of time with whatever ____ are available, they eventually find a “quiet” ____ to work (it’s just an iPod that won’t bother anyone else). Forty-five minutes later, a ____ of writing ____. Several days later, when the paper is returned, the student is ____ to learn that the grade is not as high as she had hoped. She complains that the ____ teacher is too critical, that this cold, ____ person has never ____ ____ her personality, and that she ____ the subject anyway The problem is that students are not willing to work hard enough on writing. The two essential steps that students often ____ are planning and revising. Planning can take lots of different forms. One needn’t spend hours ____ an assignment, and a complex ____ is not the only ____ product, but it’s ____ to ____ that the more time one spends planning, ____ less time one will need for the other steps. Most students think that revision is simply a ____ of using the spell-check feature of a word processing program. Others believe in ____ a little further—eye-scanning the piece for words ____ out and homonym errors. Both are mistaken. Revision means ____ a ____ ____ look at what’s been written. It means that the writer must examine the logic and the ____ of her ideas, and she must determine whether her piece is ____. Seldom does a student-writer create a first-____ ____ without taking these steps

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