Editing

Editing is the step where you correct your grammar mistakes. Spell Check tries to make this step easier. When you see red lines under words, you know they are spelled wrong.  But sometimes spell check doesnt find all of the words that are considered wrong. There are words that exist that aren’t in your word processor’s dictionary. For example, homonyms are technically spelling errors. Homonyms are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings. They won’t come up as spelling errors. So, you have to pay attention to little details like this. Grammar errors are a little more difficult to find. The green lines in a word processor attempt to help you see your own grammar errors. But, this is also limited; in fact, sometimes it’s just wrong. It might tell you that you have a fragment when you have a noun and a verb in the sentence. 

Revising

Revision is when you look at your writing and try to make it better. It has nothing to do with spelling and grammar. Revising happens after you've walked away from your paper for a while. When you look through it, read it out loud and rearrange any parts that were awkward to read. Then, look for parts of your writing that need to be more informative. Look for places where you can add descriptors and bring your writing more to life.

Writing

Getting your thoughts organized helps save time. If you know exactly where you are going with your thoughts, you can get there quickly. Sometimes I’ve already started and I have all my thoughts organized in my head, but I forget where I’m going with it. It takes a few minutes to get back on track. But If I had had an outline, I would know instantly.

Prewriting

Prewriting is the first step in any writing where the writer is trying to come up with ideas for what to write about. A good writer who is already familiar with the writing process might sit down in front of the computer and just start writing. I think of ideas all the time and when I’m ready to write, I’m ready to just roll with it. But if you need to come up with ideas, there are plenty of ways. Do a little freewriting I wrote about in an earlier piece. Stimulate your brain with news or music. Look through your journals and pull something out that you’re interested in doing. There is a great strategy that you can use: R.A.F.T. It stands for Role, Audience, Format, and Topic. If you think through these things, you're likely to have your thoughts together by the time you’re finished. 
What is the role of your writing or what are you trying to accomplish with it?
Audience is who are going to be reading it?
Format is whether your writing is going to be an article, an essay, a book.
Topic is essentially what your writing about.

Citing sources

Proper citing of sources prevents plagiarism, and establishes credibility for the author and the paper. In academic writing papers are expected to cite sources as research builds on other research. In the non-academic world, unfortunately, plagiarism is more common. Learning how to cite sources is easy and will set the authors work apart from the crowd.
Many ways to cite sources exist, and most publications specify which format is required. When no stated preferences are available, or the paper is for internet publication, any of the standard formats is acceptable.

APA is for social sciences &
MLA is for basic english papers

How to Write a Response

Generally, your response will be the end of your essay, but you may include your response throughout the paper as you select what to summarize and analyze. Your response will also be evident to the reader by the tone that you use and the words you select to talk about the article and writer. However, your response in the conclusion will be more direct and specific. It will use the information you have already provided in your summary and analysis to draw a conclusion about how you feel about this article.

How to Write an Analysis

The analysis is the most difficult part to write because it requires you to think about how the essay is written and also how it is argued. You will want to consider what works and what doesn't work to prove the author's point and persuade the audience to agree with them. Generally, your analysis is the body of your essay and so it will be the longest part. You will take at least three aspects of the following list to use in your analysis. Each one of these aspects will form the basis for at least one paragraph of the body of your paper. You will use examples from the paper and your own arguments about these examples to prove your point. Sometimes, it can help to give examples from other pieces of writing, events, scenarios, or your personal experience to help you explain your analysis and support your conclusion.

How to Write a Summary

In a summary, you want to identify the main idea of the article and put this information in your own words. Prepare to write a summary by underlining and writing notes as you read. The summary should include the thesis and topic sentences of the article put into your own words. One easy way to do this is to underline the topic sentence of each paragraph and then to write that sentence in your own words on the side of the page or on another piece of paper. Afterwards, you can read all those sentences together and then re-write them into complete sentences with good transition words. You may find you need to leave out some of the unimportant details too. Your summary should be as short and concise as possible.