PreWriting

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Pre-Writing

• Clustering
• Brainstorming Listmaking
• Freewriting
• Looping

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Clustering

• A type of prewriting that allows you to explore
  many ideas as soon as they occur to you.

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Clustering

• Example Your assignment is to write a
  paper/essay about the value of a college
  education.
• Choose a word that is central to your assignment.

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Words to associate with expectations
(during the Clustering Process)

• Job skills
• Intellectual growth
• Social aspects of college
• Career networking
• Jobs I would not want

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Write down all the words you associate with the
word expectations.

• Write them rather quickly.
• Group words around your central word.

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For example, with clustering

• The word expectations
• might lead you to consider the
• social aspects of college,
• which might lead you to
• consider
• career networking.

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Brainstorming-Listmaking

• Jot down all possible terms that emerge from the
  general topic.
• This works well with a team.
• Do not throw out any ideas yet.

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Brainstorming

• The process of generating a lot of information
  within a short time by building on the
  association of previous terms you have mentioned.

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Brainstorming

• Write down your ideas as soon as you can.
• Make lists of ideas.
• Create your topic sentence thesis statement.

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Freewriting

• Sometimes you just have to write something down.
• Go ahead just do it.
• Edit later, if you like.
• Write see the light.

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Freewriting

• The process of generating a lot of information by
  writing non-stop.

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Freewriting

• Freewrite on a topic for 5-20 minutes non-stop.
• Force yourself to continue writing.
• Now, look back over what you have written.

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Looping

• A freewriting technique that allows you to focus
  your ideas.
• Loop one 5-10 minute freewriting after another.

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Looping

• Write quickly.
• Do not edit.
• Do not stop.