The Prewriting: Exploring and Planning

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The Prewriting Exploring and Planning
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Step One of The Writing Process Exploring and
Planning
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THERE ARE SIX PREWRITING STRATEGIES

• Freewriting
• Brainstorming
• Clustering
• Cubing
• Using Journalists Questions
• Outlining

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We will be discussing...
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BRAINSTORMING

• To help discover ideas and the relationships
  among them, many writers find it useful to
  brainstorm.
• Brainstorming is making a list of everything that
  comes to mind about a subject.

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GUIDELINES FOR BRAINSTORMING
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GUIDELINE 1 (random list)

• Write a list of everything you can think of
  related to a particular topic
• ideas
• experiences
• examples
• associations

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• DONT
• be concerned about the order of ideas or
  how important they seem.

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GUIDELINE 2 (grouped list)

• Read through your random list and look for
  patterns.
• Try to make connections among items by grouping
  them into categories.
• Then put an asterisk () next to the ideas that
  seem the most interesting or important.

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EXAMPLES

• Following is an example of someones
  brainstorming the topic of culture shock.

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EXAMPLE 1

• Culture Shock (random list)
• homesick, lonely
• symptoms physical (upset stomach) and emotional
  (boredom, depression)
• language difficulty
• different values
• criticizing the new culture

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EXAMPLE 2

• Culture Shock (grouped list)
• CAUSES OF CULTURE SHOCK
• homesick, lonely
• different values
• EFFECTS OF CULTURE SHOCK
• symptoms physical (upset stomach) and emotional
  (boredom, depression)
• criticizing the new culture

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NOW YOU TRY IT!

• Write your own Random List
• Review Example
• 1

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EXAMPLE 1

• Culture Shock (random list)
• homesick, lonely
• symptoms physical (upset stomach) and emotional
  (boredom, depression)
• language difficulty
• different values
• criticizing the new culture

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NOW YOU TRY IT!

• Write your own Grouped List
• Review Example 2

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EXAMPLE 2

• Culture Shock (grouped list)
• CAUSES OF CULTURE SHOCK
• homesick, lonely
• different values
• EFFECTS OF CULTURE SHOCK
• symptoms physical (upset stomach) and emotional
  (boredom, depression)
• criticizing the new culture

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GUIDELINE 3 (Final Thought)

• After brainstorming your topic, you might want to
  explore a particular aspect of it further by
  using one of the other five prewriting strategies

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PREWRITING STRATEGIES

• FREEWRITING
• CLUSTERING
• CUBING
• JOURNALISTS QUESTIONS
• OUTLINING

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THE WRITING PROCESS EXPLORING AND PLANNING

• Good job!
• You are well on your way to writing an excellent
  essay.
• Keep up the good work as you continue your
  journey through the writing process.

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THE END

• Information for this fabulous presentation was
  taken from
• New DirectionsAn Integrated Approach to Reading,
  Writing, and Critical Thinking
• Peter S. Gardner