Tools for Prewriting

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Tools for Prewriting

• Techniques to assist in the brainstorming phase

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Free-writing

• Write non-stop for 10 minutes about your topic.
• Dont worry if get side-tracked.
• The important part of a free-write is just
  getting your ideas from your head to paper.
• After the free-write, look for information that
  you can expand on.

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Clustering

• Use a web to connect ideas to your main topic.
• Place your main topic in the central circle.
• Connect any related ideas to your topic.

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Clustering Example

• Topic Web

ourselves
Malama
culture
ocean
Loi kalo
land
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5Ws H

• Answer the 5Ws H for your topic.
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?
• Use your answers to help draft your essay.

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Cubing consider your topic from 6 angles

• 1. Describe it (colors, shapes, sizes, etc.)
• 2. Compare it (What is it similar to?)
• 3. Associate it (What does it make you think of?)
• 4. Analyze it (Tell how it's made)
• 5. Apply it (What can you do with it? How can it
  be used?)
• 6. Argue for or against it

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Writers, INC.

• These are tips found in your Writers, INC. text.
  For more help check pages 41-52.
• Some writers do not like to do any prewriting
  before writing their draft. However, this stage
  can help if youre not sure how to start or what
  to write about.
• Sebranek, P., Kemper Meyer. Writers, INC.
  2001. Great Source Education Group, Wilmington,
  MA. 41-52.