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One of the most critical steps of writing process is creating drafts. This step prevents the students from suggesting more than one main idea, giving unnecessary information beside the point of view in the texts of the students and creating a coherent text. The study of an action research aims to construct the textual coherence of 8th grade students in the paragraph level through writing drafts prepared before teaching activities and writing. The practice of 8 weeks’ duration (16 hours) in Çanakkale Merkez Gazi Highschool was participated by 32 students. The data of the study were obtained via 7 different data collection tools as the discussion with Turkish Teacher, the focus group discussion with the students, the written expressions of the students, the worksheets of the students, the diaries of the students, researcher’s diary, and teacher observation form. The obtained data were categorized after conducting content analysis. Before the practice, in the focus group discussions, the students stated that they did not like writing and did not write unless needed and also that they wrote the first thing coming to mind without planning when writing is necessary. This consequence was also observed when the written texts of the students were analysed. The practice had positive outcomes for creating coherent texts, determining the appropriate supporting elements, increasing the supporting elements, and enhancing the attitudes of thinking and writing in detail in the written expressions of the students.

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