One of the most common mistakes I see students make is skipping prewriting. Students will often claim that prewriting "takes too long" or "wastes time" because they don't truly understand its purpose or its value.
Yet, when done properly, prewriting can provide a substantial amount of ideas for a paper, including the structure and content needed for an effective draft. Many times this great information can be generated in as little as 10-15 minutes.
Furthermore, because there are so many techniques for prewriting and because there are no right or wrong answers at this stage of the process, prewriting can be tailored to an individual's learning style and preferences.
Based on these points and our class discussions, please respond to the following questions by posting a comment:
- Have you used prewriting before? If so, in what ways? If not, why haven't you?
- How did this week's classes add to your understanding of how prewriting can benefit a writing project? Be specific.
- What prewriting technique or techniques do you prefer? Why?
I have used prewriting in serval aspects of my life. Professionally as a Production Manager, I was required to write rather long reports on the status of my area of the company. These reports required me to gather and compile the require information and to group this information into sections. Thus, this basically required me to prewrite the report.
ReplyDeleteAnother time I use prewriting in my life, is when I would write a resume. Once again I would have to gather the required details and then organize them into groups.
This week's classes showed me that by prewriting I can save time and effort. Take for instance the "Prom" example we did in class. That showed me that taking the time to "web" the different aspects of that one word could basically give me the first step of my paper.
I like to combine prewriting techniques. First, I would do a list, or "web", of the possible sub-topics that I may write about. Then, I would seperate these sub-topics and free write about each one. Finally, I would compare these sub-topics and see if I can compile a general theme and mesh then together into my paper.
I have used prewriting throughout the majority of my academic career. I first began prewriting around the seventh grade and started to even rely upon the benefactors of prewriting all the way through high school. The most important type of schoolwork i have prewritten on has to be a number of term papers throughout my high-school career. Prewriting is the most effective technique if a student is trying to keep his paper orderly and flowing.
ReplyDeleteIn the classes this week I have learned that prewriting makes my life so much easier. While i still have to put the effort in creating the papers after I have completed my outline it is very simple to just add the information and tweak it as needed.
I prefer an outline because it keeps my thoughts in order and organized in whatever way I would like. Everything just flows better in my opinion when an outline is used.
I have used prewriting before hand in this same exact course. I enjoy the aspect of it, and it helps me to organize my thoughts and ideas in a better format. I first began using it when I took this course the first time, and have found it very helpful for any paper I have had to write since. It helps convey my thoughts and ideas better than top down writing.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks class has added so much more into my prewriting world. I now fully understand how I am supposed to set it up, and how I am to execute it properly. Before this I knew about it but was not quite sure how to follow through with it in an organized matter.
I like the idea in prewriting to just write whatever is on your mind, just get it on the paper. Before I was stuck thinking what would benefit this the most or what is important information, now on the other hand I just write what comes to mind and get rid of what I don't need later.
I have never took the time to use prewriting before. I have used it maybe a total of two time because i was made to. I have always thought of it to be boring and take way too much time up till now.
ReplyDeleteI have learned during class this week that prewriting can be beneficial. It not it also speeds up the process. Prewriting helps you keep your thoughts organized and cleanly put together. So in the end your not trying to fit a bunch of crap into your paper to finish it.
My favorite technique would be inside out drafting. This method helps you get all your thoughts down on to paper without actually havig to write your paper yet. It helps you answer your question for your paper easier. Most of all it helps you maintain a more organized paper in the end.
The first time I learned about prewriting, was probably when I was in about 6th grade. I have used it before, mostly in papers for school. Previously, it was more of a chore than anything, and I never really enjoyed taking the time to use it. It pretty much seemed to be a big waste of time to me.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks classes have taught me just how important it actually is. It is the format for writing a good paper. It helps me to remember the thoughts that go racing through my head, and put them in my paper. It also helps me fill in any holes that I may have not noticed in top-down writing.
As for my favorite techniques, I think that freewriting gets my thoughts flowing smoothly, so that comes in handy often. Also, I like to make a list of whatever important points that I am planning on making, and jotting those down as I brainstorm. I think this helps me because sometimes I will have an inspirational thought go through my head for about one second, and it will be gone the next. If I jot it down quickly, I can't forget it, if it is on the paper in front of me.
Pre-writing before a paper is probably one of the most important steps in writing something good. It helps you form and organize your ideas together without putting them wherever they end up. Pre-writing is definately a big help even though it can sometimes be a pain in the ass.
ReplyDeleteI use to hate pre-writing until early high school. By then you couldn't just throw things together anymore you needed a basis of where to fit certain ideas. But I still rarely pre-wrote even though i would notice the improvement when I did.
I've been taught many ways to pre-write but never taught the inside-out method and i like that way much better. It makes much more sense to complete the body paragraphs first by using a question and then answering the question after for your intro and conclusion. So I think I'll be pre-writing alot more now, especially due to how much easier it seems.
Honestly, throughout high school I completely strayed away from prewriting because I thought it was way too time consuming. The only time I really used prewriting is when it was a requirement that went along with a bogus research paper. In both of the english classes I took that required research papers, one of the requirements was an outline and a draft which had to be top down. I found myself throwing in random garbage instead of actually fully developing an idea.
ReplyDeleteThis week's classes definitely helped me see prewriting from an entirely different view. Before, I just saw prewriting as a complete waste of time and effort, but now I can see the benefits and how it can actually cut down the time it takes to write a paper. I truly thought that 'brainstorming' was the only way to draft for ideas and topics, but I was sadly mistaken. Now, I can see that there are far more benefiting and easier ways to draft, like clustering ideas and making a web focused different aspects of different topics.
Between all of the possible prewriting techniques, I definitely prefer freewriting or clustering. With freewriting you're basically making a stream of consciousness, except your thoughts are all about one major topic. It would allow you to get every thought about the topic you're writing about out of your head without having to group them in anyway, unless you desire to afterward. Clustering can also be beneficial because it's taking a topic, and chopping it down into small parts. I like this technique because you already have everything mapped out right in front of you and all you have to do is add detail and make them into paragraphs.
When I first learned about prewriting, I used it because it was required to hand in with our final paper. Honestly, I was never a big fan of prewriting. In High School, I avoided prewriting, and still did very well. When it came time to take the regents, I didn't prewrite during that because I really didn't have time to.
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoyed the prewritng exercises we did in class over the week. In regular school, teachers taught us the same boring method of prewritng. It was like filling out a worksheet that asked for the thesis first, then answering questions to help us write our paper. With the methods we did in class, we actually have more freedom when it comes to writing down ideas. It made the prewriting process much easier to understand and do.
Out of all the prewriting techniques there are, I prefer the webbing technique. If I prewrote something in High School, that was the method I used. I like this method because its impossible for me to mix ideas up. I can see what categories my ideas belong in. Also, it helps keep my paper in order. Thats why I prefer the webbing method of prewriting.
I have use prewriting before in the classes that I have taken at church, but not entirely in the way you have shown us. In church I have written essays and reports in which I gathered informations and then put it into my report, I have never taken the time to do an outline.
ReplyDeletePrewriting has shown me that if I would take the time to go through this process, step by step that it would cause me to have a paper that has all the elements that are needed to inform my readers.
Out of all the techniques, I prefer the asking questions one, because not only can I use it for my topic, but I can also use it to ask myself other questions relating to the rest of my paper that would cause me to think about what I'm doing and does it make sense to my readers.
I have used prewriting occasionally during my school experience. I prefer to use it because it helps to get my ideas out and later properly organize them. Often when I don’t pre-write it is because I procrastinated a paper and don’t have time to. In such cases my work is underdeveloped. This weeks class has reinforced my understanding of prewriting, It allowed me to see just how much it helps to develop a paper. For the sake of my school work I will make sure to use prewriting from now on. My personal favorite method of free writing is listing. It allows me to just put my ideas down without any restrictions. Then it allows me to see what I have to work with and then formulate a structure.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used prewriting much before. I didn't know much about it before this class. It might make writing a lot easier for me. It depends on how well I can use it.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I learned this week, prewriting seems pretty good for brainstorming ideas. It made creating a rough draft much smoother than it usually would have been. I wouldn't have to rewrite half a paper to put in a sentence or an idea that makes the rest of the paper a bit better.
One prewriting technique I like is putting things into a category. It really helped the last time I tried writing. The rough draft was definitely easier. The process of writing was faster than it would be than by just starting with a rough draft.
Another technique I liked was the clustering map. I tried using it for a practice story. It was actually pretty fun to do. I came up with too many lines and ideas, but the clustering was pretty good.
The prewriting techniques I liked were the clustering and putting ideas into a category. The others at this time were alright, but I found it easier with the two I mentioned. Time might make the others easier. At this time, I’m going to stick with clustering and the category method.
I haven't used prewriting in a long time, but I used in school when teachers did a web or something. Other than that I haven't. The reason why I choose not to use prewriting is because I felt it took to long like said in the reading above. After class this week on prewriting I have learned how prewriting can help to make it easier to write a paper. Even though prewriting may take a couple more extra minutes I have seen how much faster you can write a paper. The class definitely has made me want to use prewriting for all my papers now. I really like the way that web prewriting works out, like the one in class made me see that it makes writing easier.
ReplyDeleteI havent really ever used prewriting before because it wasnt taught to me in a way that was useful for me and helped me. Our teachers taught us ways but it wasnt as useful and as easy to use as the ones I have learned in your class so far.
ReplyDeleteThis week in class you demonstrated on the board and at length how to succesfully use these techniques. Describing how to use these techniques like this is a good way for me to learn this because I have found that I am a very visual learner. These techniques are helpful because there easy to use and help alot when developing strong supporting ideas for your essay question.
One technique that is best for me is the cluster or web type prewriting technique. This helps me come up with good supporting ideas and is good for developing a stong essay. This helps because it gives you the main idea and then you can build off of all of your ideas. this also helps because it helps me sort out the order of my essay when im done forming my paragraphs.
I have used pre writing many of times before, yet I always felt it to be a waste of time because I have always been better thinking up stuff to write as I go on with whatever im writing.
ReplyDeleteThe way that you described the prome and all the diffrent kinds of paragraphs you branched of on to caught my eye. Inatead of thinking up what to write I could just take my time and describe something as the way you did and it would give me alot more ideas to write on.
I've always used the roman numerals when I pre wrote and when you use that way you have to think up what exactly to write and cant out step its boundry's. I think I may try a new approach to brain storming but I have yet to try any new types.
1) Prewriting has always been a habit to me before ever writing a paper for as long as i can remember. Even back as a kid i liked to write and made sure every detail was mapped out before hand. When it finally came down to writing i made sure everything was already set for me.
ReplyDelete2)In class this week I got to get back in to that habit of planning out a writing process, taking time and making sure when it came down to that paper it just needed to be finessed.
3) Techniques like the web and clustering are a few of the techniques I use most often when it comes to prewriting. These techniques come in handy and help to better a paper.
Prewriting is something that I'm very used to doing. In high school, we were forced to do it in the form of an outline, which is nice in some ways, but like you said, is very restricting.
ReplyDeleteIn class this week, you definitely added to my understanding of a good way to prewrite. I liked the web idea and will be using it when I write papers in this class, and other classes as well.
The only prewriting tool that I've ever used was an outline. I'll probably still use a loose form of it, but not as my initial way of brainstorming ideas.
I’ve never used prewriting before and I just never took the extra time to do the prewriting. This weeks class added some understanding of the benefits of prewriting because know I learned how much time it can take off the process of writing a paper. I also learned a couple of new processes of prewriting and I would prefer the web technique because it seems easy to use and makes it easier to organize and write a paper.
ReplyDelete1. Of course i have used prewriting i have used prewriting since the fourth grade. I have used it from everything to short stories and essays. I have always been partial to the cluster or "web" method of prewriting.
ReplyDelete2. This weeks classes added to my understanding of the material because in years past my teachers always just taught the outlining method. it was only elementary school that taught the cluster method. What i liked about the classes this week was that you told us what we could use and what we couldnt. You also told us that you could choose any of the six ways that you showed us.
3. The prewriting technique that i prefer would have to be the cluster technique because i think that it is a fun way to do things. i also think of it as a game and see how many things i can name for each sub-topic.
I have done a couple pre-writes over the years. I haven't done many though because my teachers have never made me. Also as you said, I thought it took to much time.
ReplyDeleteI learned during class that prewriting can help me organize and mold my ideas into one great paper. By putting everything into categories and having five or more ideas, I can have a full paper organized in 10-15 minutes.
I prefer to write down the topic then try to organize all the different ideas into their own area. By doing this each idea or topic can be its own paragraph. Overall doing this makes writing the paper much easier.
I have used prewriting previously, but only in my past English classes. Because of the teachers instructions I have prewritten using an outline as well as a "top to bottom" rough draft. These techniques helped me to create a set structure, but because it was set it was difficult to add or change anything in the work.
ReplyDeleteThis week's classes have shown me that every part of a written work is as important as the next. Prewriting helps us as authors to understand not only how to write well written paragraphs, it also shows how the detailed sentences within those paragraphs supports the structure of the written work.
Personally lists have been my preferred prewriting technique. I prefer lists because they are not a set outline, you can play with the main categories, and add onto them as well as the details attached. I believe once we get started I am going to prefer the "backwards" or "bottom to top" method we will learn.
I don’t' believe that I've knowing used prewriting before. It's also been a while since I've been in school, so my memory may not be serving me well. Whilst in English previously, I believe we did the traditional method such as an outline or skeleton, revised, and final draft. On the other hand, I have used a form, if you will, of prewriting for my own projects in my shop. It's beneficial to jot things down so one can come to the best educated solution / conclusion to an obstacle.
ReplyDeleteThis week’s classes certainly enhanced my understanding of prewriting’s benefits. It appears to me that if this method is used properly one should be able to type the paper in a very short period of time, as they should essentially already know what they're going to say. I'm actually (aside from the lack of time) am looking forward to trying out the prewriting combined with inside out drafting to see just how much faster I can bang out a paper; it's intriguing.
I think that personally I'll be opting to use a combination of the list and asking questions methods. I tend to be a rather organized person (which some may dispute) and I always ask a ton of questions. Questions combined with points and answers laid out right in front of me should keep things easy to reference for me.
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-Taylor
Throughout my high school career I was very sporadic in the way I conducted my work. I tended to be a slacker and often wait till the last minute to complete my work, leaving no time for any such planning. Though, at times I would try to write to the best of my ability using the multiple techniques taught to us throughout the years. The few times this occurred, i attempted to brainstorm and write my ideas where ever and whenever they appeared.
ReplyDeleteWith the added techniques presented in the class i may be able to use them in my writing. Especially in an attempt to improve my grades it may be important to use prewriting. Of course i understood its use, but until now i feel like i have not needed it.
I think I would prefer to call my so called prewriting technique, a slapdash of words. I think of any idea's and statement's that i want in my paper, and I write them down. They tend to be in any haphazard order i choose. My thoughts were as long as i remember these ideas, they'll be in my paper. This worked fine for me, its the way i am. I'm just another sloppy unorganized individual like many others.
Of course, previously in life I have used prewriting. But I know not as much as I should have used it in papers. Either the teacher told us it wasn’t required for us to do so, so I didn’t use it. Plus like you said I thought it was way too time consuming. Lets just say my essay’s were not up to par as the teacher would want or expected. But when I did use prewriting it was only for research papers they seemed they were developed better than the other ones.
ReplyDeleteThis week talking about prewriting was definitely beneficial and helped me understand it in a different way then before. Before I didn’t think that prewriting was going to benefit me in anyway, but now I can see it is going to. I believe I wont become as frustrated anymore about a essay. Now “essay” doesn’t seem like such a horrible word to me.
Out of all the techniques the one that would be the most beneficial to me would be free write. The reason being is because you said ‘this is mostly for the people who take detailed notes”, and I am one of those people. I also like cluster and brainstorming, the reason being is because its random things about only one topic. It will just be easier. I believe many of the ideas and techniques we were thought about prewriting will be very helpful while writing an essay.
In the past I have always used prewriting unless we needed to write an essay in class timed for a test. In test taking or timed situations, I wouldn't use prewriting because in my mind it was too time consuming. However, I would always use prewriting because it helps organize my thoughts and it makes my writing more structured and professional. Prewriting helps me construct solid paragraphs and helps me make sure all my ideas were formulated into the paper.
ReplyDeleteThis week’s classes helped me understand prewriting and the strengths to prewriting a lot more than what I used in High School. I now can formulate better sentences, making better paragraphs, which in turn make better papers for me. I have learned to focus on one idea instead of many, and learned how to build a solid paper with class examples and notes. I have also learned how to clean up my intros/conclusions, which is my weakness.
The prewriting techniques I use and prefer are paragraphing and intros/conclusions. I like to put all my ideas down, and then formulate several paragraphs around those ideas, keeping them focused on the main idea of my paper. I also like to write my into and conclusion separate, where I can focus on what the paper is about and how to wrap up everything I brainstormed.
Prewriting has been used in my life previously as I attended school for a certificate in the medical field. It has always been something I've enjoyed to ensure my academics were well shown of how hard I worked on a project. I have always been one to prewrite anything such as a to-do list or even a grocery list. Prewriting is a relaxing technique as I think of ideas or examples as I'm writing. It is best to jot down your point of thought first. At times you may find when reading it you may have a better way of expressing or communicating to the reader with other words to allow a reader to relate to your point of view.
ReplyDeleteThis week's class was very helpful to realize prewriting may not harm anything but to get you started on what your writing about. It was understood that prewriting is or can't be right or wrong,it is just a starter process. I believe that will become one of my struggles along he way.
The technique I prefer and what works best for me would be to go through the specific questions which can relate to your subject. This technique can help you add something you may have left out or can allow you to check if you've kept to your thesis and/or subjet. In many times I find myself beginning to drift away from the subject or main idea.
I have used prewriting before on a few occasions but mostly only when directed by a teacher to or if i was being graded on it. I suppose i fall into the category of students who find prewriting as a "waste of time" or pointless. Although when using prewriting the few instances i did, it made writing essays go much smoother.
ReplyDeleteIn this weeks class discussion on prewriting, i learned that taking a little extra time, before starting a paper, to pre-write actually will save you time in the long run. After making the diagram in class to organize different topics and the details that go along with those topics, i really noticed, just by looking at the diagram, how much easier it would be to construct paragraphs. No more getting stuck mid paragraph with a loss of ideas.
Unfortunately, as a writer i haven't used prewriting enough to say i have a favorable technique. With this said, I would have to say what we did in class did look to be beneficial when organizing thoughts. When it comes time to write a paper i will most likely us a similar, diagram technique to organize my thoughts when prewriting.
I never really used prewriting because my past teachers have never instructed me to do so except for outlining. Like most everybody else I thought prewriting was a waste of time and as a result my writing suffered.
ReplyDeleteThis week's classes added to my understanding of prewriting beacuse it showed me the different techniques for preparing your essay. The only method I was ever taught was Outlining. Which is okay if you already have all your ideas.
I like outlining simply because I've done it so much that I'm used to it. Its all I was taught in my english education because it was decently simple. I read about other techniques but I was unfamiliar and skeptical with them.
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ReplyDeleteI would say that through out high school, I used pre-writing 75% of the time. This would be for the reasons you said above; I felt as if I didn't have enough time to do so. Sometimes I would just like to get started on typing a paper and skip any form of hand writing.
ReplyDeleteHowever when I did use pre-writing techniques I often found that more creativity was put down onto the paper. Whether or not i was focusing on the topic, I was still releasing a lot of ideas I had. I like to use webs or my type of outlining. This type is where I just put my idea at the top and list details or smaller ideas underneath it.
Last week's class has honestly made me feel better about writing papers. Inside out drafting is something I wish so badly that I knew about in high school. I only wish everyone were taught this type of drafting because I feel that it only makes things that much easier. Knowing that there is something I can do to make a paper easier for me to write is always a good thing. I trust that the advice and techniques being taught are ones that were learned through experience and success so I am excited to give it a try.
Yes I used prewriting for my papers I had to write while in high school. I used prewriting for any subject where I had to write a paper. A lot of the time my prewriting strategy was to just create an outline. However sometimes when writing a paper on literature, I used a strategy simialr to the clustering/mapping. The strategy I used is known as the spider, it also requires the subcategories.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the week, I was able to see and understand more how prewriting can make the actual writing much easier and less painful. I was able to see how much there is to each topic, all the stuff that relate back to a certain topic. It can help extend your paper with details, but can also help you choose only one topic to write your paper on.
I prefer the clustering/mapping prewriting strategy. The reason for this if you do an adequate job than you will have plenty information to write your paper and will answer your research question to the fullest extent. I also like to use the listing strategy for prewriting, because you can get alot of information relating to your topic in a little amount of time.
I have used prewriting to an extensive point in all my previous english and personal assignments. I find it is more accurate to prewrite your information. Ways in wich I have used prewriting before are the use of brainstorms and clustering.
ReplyDeleteThe past weeks classes have been very detailed and slow paced. This helps me because I need like so many others to see the information in able to learn. Teach you have been doing a wonderfull job on explaining the process.The PROM exercise helped me particularly well due to the fact it was so detailed and that most of the class was enthused to participate.
The prewriting techniques that I prefer are brainstorming and clustering. This is due mainly to the fact that this is how I was taught by my previous teachers, and they just work well with my way of learning(due to the fact that there is no wrong answer).
Honestly, I never liked prewriting becasue I felt like it took too much time. The only time I have used when it was required. Another reason why I havn't used it much is because it was never taught to me where I thought it was helpful and it wasn't easy to understand.
ReplyDeleteIn class this week, it definitely helped me understand prewriting in a whole different way. It was so much easier for me to understand. I never thought that prewriting would actually help me beacuse it was taught in a way where I was never really interested in using it. But now I can definitly use it without any trouble and I know it will help me write better essays!
The prewriting technique that I prefer the most would be the brainstorming and clustering. I feel like this is the best technique because you're able to write an essay with so much information and details.
In my past writing experience I have used prewriting. I used it when working on major papers in high school. I made a chart that would help me organize my ideas. I have also used an outline, however with an outline I felt as though I was writing my paper. The outline method didn’t seem to prove to be effective because it was the same as writing the paper in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteIn class this week the importance of prewriting was stressed. It helped me realize that if you can organize your ideas in an effective way then when it comes to writing your paper the task will be much simpler. For example, the chart we used to organize prom ideas showed how one simple idea can turn into many complex thoughts. This process would allow for a paper to be detail orientated but at the same time if it had to be more general the chart would also be effective. This showed the importance of prewriting because when we went to form the ideas in paragraph form it was very easy and almost thoughtless.
When it comes to prewriting techniques I prefer to use a flow chart. This way you can start with the basic idea in the research question and allow it to grow to various levels. It also shows many options for a paper and allows thinking outside the box. When you start to make the chart you may think you know exactly the way you’re going to go but once you let your ideas develop your paper may end up completely different than your initial idea. Flow charts allow for very developed and effective thinking.
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ReplyDeleteI never really have used prewriting before taking this class. Prewriting wasn't emphasized in my high school english classes so it was something that a student would have to do on their own. Because prewriting seemed time consuming and confusing, I would go straight to writing my paper.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks classes have helped me understand the purpose of prewriting. It not only helps gather ideas but it also is a great organizer. Prewriting helps make a paper understandable to the reader and also makes it so that a student wouldn't have to "fill" the paper when it's finished.
Out of the prewriting techniques that I have learned, i like clustering the best. It is easiest for me to sort things by catagory or topic. I also like this method becuase the catagories can be used as topics for each paragraph or one catagory can be used as the topic for the whole paper.
I have never really used prewriting much in my life. Throughout high school we had been taught some prewriting techniques, but they were never graded or much emphasized at all. Sometimes I felt prewriting was unnecessary and would only frustrate me. At other times, I needed prewriting to organize my ideas properly.
ReplyDeleteWithin our previous weeks discussions on prewriting, I have learned more about the benefits of prewriting than I have throughout my entire education in high school. I have realized that now we are at a higher level of writing and that it will only continue to get more independent, I will need to utilize these prewriting skills. I now understand the importance of prewriting, not only for the purpose of better organization of my ideas, but also using these strategies can save me a lot of troubles later on in the writing process.
I prefer the bubble-chart or web style technique of prewriting, such as the one we used in class with the prom example. I like this technique because it creates a very visual interpretation of the ideas you gather. I also like it because it is easy to separate the different key points if a question you need to respond to tries to target specific ideas.
I have used prewriting, mostly in high school. The only form that i really used was an outline. After our discussions in class and the many other forms that i was introduced to I now realize that using an outline isnt the best way. It is too specific and doesnt allow much room for ideas. This week's class has been very helpful. I completely forgot about the other forms of prewriting, like listing and the web chart. Those are both great ones when begining a paper because they get your mind going and ideas just start popping up. My favorite typer of prewriting is the Listing one. I think that this one is the best for me because i have trouble thinking of material to write about, almost like writers block. So for me to just think of a bunch of ideas and write them down will be very beneficial.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was first I was first introduced to prewriting i was personally not a huge fan of it until I put it to use writing a final paper in my junior year in which provided me with a very high grade. I also used prewriting multiple time throughout my senior year as i took contemporary literature. My teacher required us to pre write on all of our papers, which i found quite beneficial in the writing of my papers as it provided me with multiple ideas and an easy way to keep my ideas in order of what i needed to write.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks classes provided further knowledge of prewriting to me and allowed to further my writing skills. Now i know how to better my flow of what I am writing about do the the fact that prewriting is an excellent way to build ideas and allows you to pair them up with similar topics. This week also taught me that there is no need to cram all the information you have into a paragraph. WIth what i have learned this week i can properly place information within a paragraph without my details being confusing due to the fact it wasn't orderly.
My favorite prewriting technique is the bubble-chart style of prewriting simply due to the fact it is a easily understandable visual diagram in which is an excellent way to construct you ideas. I also prefer this technique because of the way you can connect one topic to another while constructing a well developed essay.
I have used prewriting before, but not as extensive or as often as I should. Typically, i want to get a paper done and assume i can do that without proper techniques to actually make it good. It seems as though it is time consuming, but in the long run it makes everything easier. During this weeks classes, i learned different ways to prewrite such as listing, webbing and free-writing. This really helps get your ideas down on paper. Free-writing helps keep your brain flowing, so ideas can follow one another. I learned if i'm stuck, to literally write "i'm stuck." As long as you don't stop writing, the technique works. I prefer to use the webbing or mapping technique. It really helps generate different ideas that ulimately link to one main idea. It gives you the information layed out, clear, so you can transform it into literature.
ReplyDeletei have not really use prewriting. This skill has helped me in that past but i still feel that it is a big wast of time. I just would set up a prewrite skeletion and flesh it out later. i now know that pre writting dosent have to be a wast of time but you can spend the whole time on it and then use it for the papaer! This weeks calss definatly helped me make batter use of prewriting. what really helped me to understand was the clustering and organiation skills we went over. i prefure the answer the question multipal times the most. after you do that the papaer is just about done and you did not have to wast a tone of time doing it.
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The main way I chose to use prewriting in my life was in the form of outlines. It was the easiest way to take notes out of books, so it seemed like the most efficient way to arrange a paper. I would take down notes in my own words of a series of facts I thought would be interesting in my paper. Then I simply rearranged all those notes in an order that seemed to make the most sense, along with a few introductions and transitions to help it to make sense. I then wrote my paper pretty much exactly like that, only adding grammar and punctuation.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with this was that I had to do my research to get inspiration for an umbrella topic. I also put in all the facts that I liked, making it more work to figure out what a normal pattern of thoughts for this data would be. I never realized how ineffective outlines were compared to other forms of prewriting.
The prewriting technique that I prefer is mapping. I have always been a visual learner so it is the easiest for me to produce. It is also the easiest for me to interpret later. It is also useful for seeing how well certain facts and ideas will connect.