Writing is as Easy as Baking a Cake

Writing can be as easy as baking a cake. When it comes to writing or baking a cake, both have step by step instructions to help guide you to the most perfect creation you can write or bake up. These steps below could be a good way to relate writing to something fun or even help create an essay.

Step One: Prewriting/ Preparation

• Prewriting is anything you do before you write a draft of your document.
• Preparation is gathering all the ingredients, pans, measuring tools, and preheating the oven.
  

Step Two: Drafting/ Mixing Ingredients

• Drafting is when you put your ideas into sentences and paragraphs. Here is where you explain and support your ideas and start connecting your ideas. 
• Mixing the ingredients is similar because in order to start writing you have to put all your ideas together. Well in order to start baking you have to mix all the ingredients together.

Step Three: Revising/Baking and Cooling

• Revising is the key to effective documents. At this stage you refine your rose, making each sentence as concise and accurate as possible. Make connections between ideas explicit and clear. 
• The Baking and Cooling process is similar to revising because this is the step where you see how the cake has turned out. You are trying to make it taste good and look good. This the step where you decide to continue or start over. 
• Writing or baking are not always perfect the first time around. 

Step Four: Editing/ Decorations= Finishing touches

• Editing is checking for grammar, mechanics, and spelling errors. Don't edit your writing until the other steps in the writing process are complete.
• Decorations are just like editing because this is the part where you take what you have and make it as perfect as you can.  It is putting the icing on the cake, the finishing touches.

The steps you take when writing are just as important as the steps you take when baking a cake. These steps will help you be as creative as you can, no matter who it turns out. Practice makes perfect. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps and you will be writing or baking like a professional in no time.