• In the study, education started with direct instruction and went on with indirect instruction. The research findings show that it is effective to conduct teaching through stages from direct instruction to indirect instruction.
• It was understood from the results related to the direct instruction of the writing process that it is effective to introduce the evaluation tools in the direct instruction of the writing process stages in terms of students’ realizing what they are expected to do. In addition to this, the explanation of the writing process stages and modeling for these stages, contributed greatly to the students’ using the writing process effectively.
• It was observed that indirect instruction enabled students to think more and contributed to their being models for each other.
• It was observed that reinforcing students who benefited from writing strategies in the teaching process, made other students eager to use the strategies as well.
• It was observed that students were able to use different graphical editing in preparation for the writing process.
• It was observed according to the writing evaluation tool that the students progressed in mostly outer structure dimension and the least progress occurred in the inner structure dimension.
• While evaluating their compositions, it was observed that students had difficulty using the writing evaluation tool utilized in the editing stage of the writing process while using it to evaluate their compositions. They needed more educational support in this stage.
• The sharing stage of the writing process was effective in motivating students to write.
• Students needed more time and practice to use the writing process effectively.