Prewriting Techniques

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Prewriting Techniques

• Composition Techniques
• Shannon Phillips

Dont forget to view the notes (Right click gt
Speaker Notes) and to take notes over the
material. You will be asked to brainstorm your
first paper topic, and you will use this
materials in the quizzes.
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Introduction

• To be studied
• Ritualizing writing
• Reassurance ritual
• Early starts
• Narrowing topics
• Brainstorming techniques

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Todays Journal

• Create a journal entry to practice prewriting
  techniques.
• Date the entry and call it Prewriting.

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The Crazy Things We Do . . . Prewriting

• What do you do to avoid writing/prime yourself
  for writing?
• Brush the toilet?
• Rearrange the furniture in your house?
• Call everyone you know on the phone?

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Personal Rituals

• The ritual you create is helpful to get your
  creative juices flowing.

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Start the Writing Process Early

• As soon as you get your assignment, start
  thinking about and brainstorming the topic.

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Strong Interest Inventory

• Right now, in your journal, write down 3 topics
  from the Civil Rights topics list.
• Choose the topic that interests you most.
• Outline the topics.

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Public Organizations

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People (NAACP)
• Highlander Folk School
• Black Panthers
• Choose one or offer a suggestion.

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Legislation that Changed Public Institutions

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Sweatt vs. Painter
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Choose one or offer a suggestion.

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Peaceful and Not-so-peaceful Demonstrations

• Sit-in campaigns (Greensboro, North Carolina, and
  more)
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Freedom rides
• Mississippi and Alabama riots
• March on Washington
• Choose one or offer a suggestion.

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Men and Women of the Civil Rights Movement

• Stokely Carmichael
• Septima Clark
• Medgar Evers
• Zora Neal Hurston
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Malcolm X
• Thurgood Marshall
• Rosa Parks
• JoAnn Gibson Robbins
• Spottswood Robinson
• Earl Warren
• Choose one or offer a suggestion.
• Do not study the figure on a biographical scale
  Study a contribution they made or study a speech
  or movement for which they were the primary
  catalyst.

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Songs, Folktales, Poetry, and Speeches

• How were each of the following songs or poems
  used through other media (speeches) to strengthen
  the movement's cause?
• How might different races have viewed and
  interpreted the media chosen?
• "We Shall Overcome"
• "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around"
• "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table One of These
  Days"
• "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neal
  Hurston
• "Hallelujah I'm A-Travelin
• "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall
• Choose one or offer a suggestion.

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Narrow the Topic

• Take one of your outlined items to begin the
  brainstorming process.
• Listing
• Clustering
• Free writing
• Interviewing and Cross Examining
• Sketching
• Dramatizing the subject
• Some are found in Part 1, Section 1 of Raimes.

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Your Assignment

• Decide upon 3 narrowed topics for the first paper
  assignment, using the strong interest inventory
  to practice brainstorming techniques.
• You must use listing, clustering, sketching
  and/or dramatizing the subject, plus one more
  techniques of your choice.
• Write a 1-2 page (double-spaced, 1 margins, 12
  point Times New Roman font) rationale of which
  techniques worked, which did not, and why for
  each. You will use (copy and paste) the exercises
  during the Prewriting Techniques Quiz.

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Works Cited

• McCuen, Jo Ray, and Anthony C. Winkler. Readings
  for Writers. New York Harcourt, 1998.
• Wyrick, Jean. Steps to Writing Well with
  Additional Readings. New York Harcourt, 1999.