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Pre-Writing Strategies

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Pre-writing is a way of organizing your thoughts and beginning to put the information you have on paper.  It is best to do a pre-writing activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay.

You should use prewriting to . . .

 think more clearly
see a start of your paper
keep track of your ideas
practice expressing yourself in writing

BASIC PREWRITING STRATEGIES
Develop Questions
What do I know? What do I need to find out? What is the point of the paper?
Jot List
the image of jot list		 Brainstorm
the image of brainstorm		 Freewrite
the image of free writing

Visualize / Organize Major Categories
Outline
the image of outline		 Mapping
the image of mapping		 Tree Diagram
the image of tree diagram

Updated July 31, 2002
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