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 and readings add to your understanding of how prewriting can benefit a writing project? Be specific.
- What prewriting technique or techniques do you prefer? Why?
No, I haven’t ever used pre-writing. I guess I can say I haven’t because I wasn’t ever taught how to use it. I was always taught just to jump right into the outline. The way I was taught was in the matter of brainstorming, notes/research, outline, paper. No pre-writing in between.
ReplyDeletePre-writing can benefit you by relieving stress. For instance, it‘s not a final draft so you‘re not pressured to make it perfect, resulting in more ideas because you’re not so stressed about the ideas you’ve written down. Also with those ideas, it helps you to process new ones out of those ideas. Even though it’s a short-timed process, you get a lot out of it. It can also help you be organized because you can put your ideas into separate columns and you’ll most likely find yourself with more ideas then you need.
Pre-writing techniques that I prefer would just be, at first, to write down everything I know about the subject, not worrying about if it’s in correct writing form or not, along with brainstorming. One thing I might do too, is write down questions that I have regarding the subject, even if I didn’t know anything about it so therefore I would have something to research.
1. No I have not used prewriting before. I have never used it because I never really felt that it was needed, I always just took all the ideas and facts that I had gathered and started to work them into an outline and then a rough and final draft from there.
ReplyDelete2. I can see how prewriting would be beneficial when applied to writing a paper in several ways. For one I can see how simply writing things down as they pop into your mind would help to generate a lot of ideas in a short time without having to worry about forgetting what you are thinking before writing it down. I can also see how brainstorming ideas and grouping them together would give you a way to both organize your paper and provide extra opportunities to develop new ideas related to the ones you already have.
3. The prewriting techniques that I prefer are free writing because I have a tendency to forget things if I do not write them down quickly and brainstorming because I feel like looking at a diagram will make organizing easier and that the visual display of ideas will make developing further ideas easier.
I have used prewriting before. I prefer the webbing technique because I find it to be much easier to organize my thoughts. I also really find listing possible question for the my paper very helpful because sometimes I believe I struggle with coming up with a proper question to answer for my paper.
ReplyDeleteThis week has helped me learn other techniques that could possibly work when you are brainstorming for a paper. Also I didn't really realize that some of the techniques could work in a group so effectively.
I do practice prewriting, I have been doing so for years. When I was growing up I had some really good teachers that expressed how much it helps to prewrite or brain storm then rough draft they would call it. All my essays have been prewritten. This week our class discussion showed me that i can come up with way more ideas,therefore sentences, to add on to my papers. The writing a paragraph on the board helped me to put together sentences better. It also helped me come up with more supporting sentences to fill a paragraph up and make it more informative for my readers. I have a little bit more confidence in college now as far as coming down to my papers/essays. Prefessor Snow made it clear for me that sometimes an essay or paper that seems to be extremely long may not be that bad just by showing us the proper way to build our paragraphs. The most efficent technique for me would definately be the brainstorm process. I know if I have some ideas jotted down I can come up with some really good material for a paper.
ReplyDelete1. Honestly like most people I have not really done any pre-writing before. I don’t like doing it because I always felt that it took up too much of my time. I would have much rather just right to work on the paper and get it over with especially if I had a few ideas in my head. But I would always end up get a few paragraphs written and them have a major case of writers block and fake the rest of the paper.
ReplyDelete2. This weeks classes have defiantly opened my eyes to what pre writing can do. One major plus I’ve learned about pre writing is that it can give you lots more paragraph ideas than when you just write on your own.
3. The pre writing technique that I like the most would be webbing because I have always had trouble coming up with topic ideas for my paragraphs. By webbing I can get lots of ideas that are all related and if one idea doesn’t work out then I have several others that will.
I have used prewriting before but, like we discussed in class, I was taught how to outline a paper. I never really understood it so, I would just skip the whole “rough draft” and move right on to my paper. I must admit that a lot of the times, it became incredibly confusing as to which direction my paper was taking. I’m glad that you’ve taught us these methods of prewriting because I already know it will help me a great deal, and save me the confusion. :)
ReplyDeleteKnowing that most, if not all college papers are lengthy I think that my new understanding of prewriting will save me a lot of time. Which, I don’t have a lot of these days. It can also give me a better grasp on the subject I’m trying to describe.
I’ve always been more a visual learner than anything else, so I really think that the webbing method is best for me. Like, the example that you gave us in class about prom. It was so much easier than using those outlining approaches I was taught in high school. The ideas just come to me. Whereas, when I was outlining, I was stuck for what seemed like forever on trying to come up with just a few ideas.
I've always used prewriting as a matter of course for most of my writing. All of my prewriting and and first drafts, and often a second draft as well, are handwritten in something I call "the ugly notebook". It gets this moniker from my process of cutting pieces out and taping them in somewhere else, as a way of visually organizing my ideas. I also draw a lot of diagrams, include pictures or printouts, or color code things that relate to each other.
ReplyDeleteDoing my prewriting this way helps me keep my ideas fluid, and makes revising and rewriting very easy for me. The order in which you present elements in a paper can be crucial. It also helps me make connections I might not have made before.
It occurred to me during class that I would probably benefit from more listing, and then subsequently freewriting a bit on each listed item. This might be a way to generate material more quickly. The category game is something I'd also like to try, to see if it might sharpen my focus.
1) Teachers through out my life have actually taught me alot of different pre-writing techniques. I have learned mapping, listing, outlines and sentence for sentence style. Mainly in highschool they just summarized all of them together as brainstorming. I have used almost of the prewriting techiniques when writing essays, papers and assignments and become pretty familar with them.
ReplyDelete2)This weeks class really helped me to understand the benefits and purpose of pre writing. In highschool pre writing was a topic we covered for a day, then you were really informed to use the sentence by sentence style to save time, which in reality just drew the paper or assignment out longer.The class really showed me that in actuallity when using the correct pre writing techniques papers can be alot easier and go alot faster/smoother. Especially when we did the writing activity about the prom, it really showed us how mapping can make it easier to develope a story and pre writing brings everyones story together.
3) I realy enjoyed using the mapping because I tend to be a visual learner and layng it out makes writing a paper alot simpler for me.It not only lays it out in front of me to see, but it helps develope the story in my head so im not trailing off to other topics and rambling.
1. Like most students in class I have never used the prewriting technique. All of my high school teachers taught me to write research paper notes on notecards. Along with writing notes on the notecards we had to put a source code(letter A,B,C etc.) on relating facts. The outline was based on the notecards. The teachers never even mentioned prewriting, but they always talked about outlining. It was the only thing I knew and was taught so I had to go with it. I really didn't even know what prewriting was until we discussed it in class and also from the reading. Now that I think about prewriting it sounds like it could take a lot of time up.
ReplyDelete2. Prewriting is valuable in a variety of ways. I was confused about it before but this weeks class gave me a clear understanding of what it is and how useful it can be. Also it doesn't really take up much time at all. It in fact saves you time. Prewriting helps you generate ideas as well as helping you come up with paragraph ideas. In addition to generating ideas, prewriting contributes to the organization of your paper.
3. I prefer the listing and webbing technique. With the webbing technique all your ideas are laid out in front of you. I like the listing technique because I can jot down ideas that come into my head. I don't have 1 specific technique in mind so I would like to try both techniques to see which one works better for me.
1.In writing, when it comes to essays, I have not used prewriting. It could be because, I could never get my ideas out on paper. When I would write essays I would just read about the topic and type away on the computer. This technique never did work out well for me! My teachers never really explained much on how to write a good essay. They would just hand us the topic and tell us we have an essay on it.
ReplyDelete2. I learned that prewriting is an enormous help to writing a could essay. In class I understood that having a chart based on the topic, would help get my ideas out and make them clear and concise to the reader. When I learned about prewriting, I found it use full. I could beat myself up for never using this in high school!
3. I prefer using a chart like we did in class. Having all my ideas separated and having each idea have different points, made it easier and more clear to me and allowed me to organize my thoughts. Using this technique will allow me to elaborate and make more sense to the reader. My essay will also make sense to me as I will have my ideas organized and feel more confident about what I am writing.
1.) I have never used prewriting before. This technique is new information for me on how to develop a paper. I wish i was taught about prewriting in high school. It would have helped a bunch on papers i wrote in the past. 2.) I believe prewriting just makes everything absolutely so much easier. I like how u can get most of the information you will need on a topic on paper in a short period of time. I've experienced those brain farts before when u stop writing and then don't know where to start again. Prewriting eliminates that useless process. I think prewriting basically gives u a blueprint of what your paper is exactly going to cover and it can generate good questions to make your thesis. 3.) I just really like the webbing technique. I think it allows you to brainstorm and keep it a little organized at the same time. I can get all my ideas on paper and then see all my options clearly. Which ideas would be my topic sentences and then what my paragraphs would discuss to support those topics.
ReplyDelete1. In some vague forms I have used pre-writing, but only a rough outline of what I would like to say in an essay. I never really looked into brainstorming before I actually wrote. I found my niche in prose writing. It kind of gave my papers a beatnik vibe(a la Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac). As for regents essays, I stuck to the strict pattern and gave the grader what they wanted to read in regards to what my knowledge of a certain topic was, therefore stressing out and not thoroughly thinking through my paper due to the time constraint.
ReplyDelete2. To select a topic to write a paper is one of the most difficult tasks a writer is faced with. With the techniques taught to us in class, this task has now been made simpler. Instead of struggling with thinking up of a topic just by thinking about a broad subject, the use of a pre-writing technique can break down a broad topic into smaller sub categories with ample information.
3. I prefer the web technique because I am a visual learner. By seeing how all sub categories are connected to the big picture would help me narrow my thesis and let me decide which question I would like to research and answer.
1.) I’m pretty sure I have used prewriting before in the format more of an outlining and listing technique. Nothing too deep, complex, detailed or as helpful as to what we are learning in class.
ReplyDelete2.) During this week’s classes I learned and took more understanding to why and how prewriting is an important step. I learned many new ways on how to prewrite more effectivily that will be much easier to come up with ideas and expand on those ideas and thoughts. By prewriting it will help me narrow my topic choice down, generate a research question for my paper more easily, and format a excellent paper with solid details and surrounding content.
3.) I prefer to use either the free writing, listing, or outlining technique. I would use free writing because I can come do some of my best work individually and come up with really good ideas on my own. Also because that’s the way I pretty much learned how to prewrite in the first place…individually. I would also use listing because I enjoy working in groups and it also would go faster and by working in a group you have other people coming up with different ideas you may have not even thought of. Overall it brings different ideas, can be more fun, and at times a easier approach to the table and a whole different look to prewriting. Lastly, I would potentially use the outlining technique the most because its what I learned in the first place and what I’m use to and experienced with the most.
I have never used pre-writing before this english class.None of my teachers had ever taught this method of writing.writing a rough draft was all i used to do before i wrote a paper.After my rough draft i would just touch up any errors and finish my paper.
ReplyDeleteI've learned several different styles of pre-writing and it's benefits.Since class i learned that there are many steps to writing a paper and it's not as hard as it sounds once you figure out what style fits you best.Pre-writing will help you narrow down your topic,find a research question and generate you paper content.
Listing is a technique that i seem to personally lean toward.Listing for me can help give me a list of ideas relating to the topic that i can choose from.After i'm done listing i can then start choosing from my list a good question for my paper.When that is all done i will still have ideas on my list that i could use to support my argument and form my paper.Once i was done i would finish my paper with a strong closing argument using more ideas from the list that i started out with.Hence this process will prove to be very beneficial to me because i have been given the proper tools to write a more precise paper.
I have never used prewriting before. I would have to say I haven’t used prewriting because I was never taught the techniques and was never encouraged to prewrite. I would write an essay, like you said, from the first sentence to the very last sentence. Prewriting can benefit one by letting the ideas flow from the mind onto paper easily. Even if all the ideas are not usable, the outcome of prewriting can make writing a paper or essay easier. Webbing or mapping is definitely my favorite prewriting technique. In class when we made the web or map of the prom, I was amazed at all of the ideas that the class had come up with. We had a research question, paragraphs, specific sentences and details.
ReplyDelete-Kristina Collard
1. In high school, I thought the same about pre-writing that many people do now. Too long, and a waste of time until I tried it. I tried it in my sophomore year and never looked back. I was never really taught how to pre-write, but I kind of experimented with it on my own. I tried some of the techniques we used in class and some that i figured might work just for me. I'v noticed that it brightens my ideas and can lead me to a topic much quicker and more efficient then just doing an outline.
ReplyDelete2. This weeks classes really helped me understand pre-writing much more. Specifically, our latest class on friday when we talked about "prom". When we first did the branching out of the word "prom" I didn't understand how you could find a specific topic and write a 2-3 page paper on it until PSnow started to give us some reasoning. I feel when you have that many ideas down on paper in front of you, your mind expands and gives you better idea and more topics to think about. Once seeing all the topics on the board, it was very east for me to pick one specific topic and use many of the words for different subjects relating to the topic.
3. The pre-writing topic I prefer is listening. When I listen, I take notes which leads me to topics. Just being able to hear someone else's voice lets my brain think on its own and come up with examples relating to the main topic.
I have used prewriting before a couple of times and used a few of the ways talked about in class. I have used prewriting in previous papers through outlining, creating a list, and by making webs. I have found for me outlining has been most successful when it comes to my individual writing because organization is one of my big flaws and that helps the most with organization. However, I also like creating lists and webs when I don’t have as many ideas to make and outline, so that helps too.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing I learned this week in class was to NEVER skip prewriting. I usually prewrite but not every time, but from now on I will never skip it. I have learned that if you can’t come up with ideas for a paper, making a web and branching off of it helps so much. Also, when creating a list you can come up with several different topic sentences to help lead off a paper. From this weeks classes I have learned how to effectively prewrite instead of just jotting down ideas and jump into writing.
As previously stated, I prefer to outline and web the most. When I create an outline my paper tends to flow better and make more sense to the reader instead of just rambling on. It also keeps my paper structured, so I know what each paragraph is about and how much information will be in it. I like to web when it comes to coming up with an idea for a paper and to add more information making my paper longer and more specific.
Yes I have used prewriting before. However only when I have been told I had to. Usually I outline my response to help myself get a visual on what I want my writing to look like. This week showed me an easier way to prewrite. One that sets up my ideas in a way that I can use them to write full length essays or even short paragraphs in a simple yet sophisticated way. I was able to understand how much prewriting can actually help me when coming up with a main idea, supporting paragraphs and even details to help explain my reasoning’s for each matter, all within a few minutes. Now that I have been shown new ways to prewrite I have been leaning towards the webbing method. It seems to be the easiest and quickest way for me to get my ideas on paper and be able to transfer those ideas and details into a piece of writing. For the way I think and the way I am able to classify ideas webbing is something I prefer over all the other ways of prewriting.
ReplyDelete1.Yes I have used prewriting before but I really never used it that much because I felt that it was a waist of my time honestly, I was taught to do outlining while I was in school that was the technique that was taught, it didn’t really seem useful so I used it about once or twice.
ReplyDelete2.This weeks classes helped out a lot. I thought it was only one or two different ways for prewriting honestly I had no intentions on prewriting until I seen the various techniques, they seem like a different and more effective way of prewriting,they all seem like a big help especially when trying to choose an area to write about.
3.The two that I preferred were listing and mapping, these techniques benefits me because it gets all of my ideas down on paper, gets my brain going, and also gives me multiple subjects to write about and expand on.
I have never really been a fan of prewriting. Honestly I’ve never even been a fan of writing rough drafts. I've tried a few times before to prewrite but never knew how to do it properly. This is most likely what caused me not use it. For almost all the papers I've had to write I would always just open up a word document on the computer and just start writing. Of course I would have my research right next to me but never did anything with it. I had always seen it easier to just right the final draft first and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteAfter this weeks classes and the readings I’ve gained a better knowledge about prewriting. I found out that when done properly is actually very easy and fast. It helps to organize everything in front of you to make the actual writing of the paper a lot easier. Prewriting is not meant to be written perfect. Its meant to get ideas out and on to the paper. One idea can flow into another which could flow into another.
I've never really prewriten before so I don’t have any preferred techniques. I do like the one you did in class though. I like how mapping out the ideas makes it easy to take a topic and turn it into paragraphs. And also to have the ideas for right in front of you for your sentences. This makes the writing process a lot faster because everything you need is right in front of you.
-chris domanski
1) No, I have never used pre-writing before; mostly because I was taught that it was a “waste of time.” I’ve always just gathered all my ideas together, rearranged them in my head and wrote them down. I never felt pre-writing was really necessary.
ReplyDelete2)I see now that pre-writing can be very helpful, especially if you’re writing a multiple page paper. It just gathers all your ideas together and it’s much easier to organize and get started and finish sooner. The more ideas you come up with, the more paragraphs and more information you’ll have to make your paper sound more professional.
3)I think either listing or diagrams like webbing would probably benefit me more. I think webbing your ideas would make your paper sound more structured because you have all the ideas right in front of you and all you have to do is organize it.
I have never used prewriting before, actually I have never heard of it. I have only heard of drafting. I am very excited to learn and use prewriting; I believe I will be the student that will be saying, why didn’t somebody teach me this earlier? I have always had a really hard time writing and would stare at a blank screen for 2 hours and not know what to write. I hope that learning this skill will help me with my future paper writing.
ReplyDeleteI learned that prewriting is a skill that could have saved me many hours of frustration and tears, when I was trying to write 8 page papers. Prewriting can save you tons of time. It can also help you to organize your thoughts, and get them on paper; this is something I struggle with. It also taught me that writing can actually be fun, not a stressful time of staying up till 3 am writing, only because you have a paper due and you want a passing grade.
The list style was my favorite. I liked it because I like lists and I also understand it better when I see it written out in front of me. I also liked the web idea; I loved doing it in class, seeing how it worked really got me excited to try it on my own. I can’t wait to write my first paper, this is the first time I have not cringed at the thought of writing in my life.
Isaiah Frost
ReplyDelete1. I have used prewriting but not to the extent of what we have been doing in class. We have all been limited in time on important essays and most believe that taking time out to do the prewriting is a waste of crucial time and instead you can just come up with something as you go along. I have used pre-writing on long essays to gather all of my thoughts so I wouldn’t forget.
2. This weeks lesson has benefited me because I can now understand the importance of prewriting and I also have the ability to prewrite within a limited time and from that be able to create a well worded, detailed paper. it’s a good organizational tool if your worried about time and cannot work well in situations under pressure.
3. I find that I use prewriting at is fullest potential when I listen. I have always been a more audio prone person and when I listen I feel like I understand the topic better and able to write enhanced notes that will lead me to writing a better paper. From that I would also be able to use your mapping technique better which I also enjoyed using.
1. I have never used pre writing before because I was never taught to use it nor taught that it was something valid in writing. Honestly, I’m excited to start using it!
ReplyDelete2. I learned it is a huge stress reliever and helps you become more organized with your writing. You know it’s not your rough draft or final copy so you can just write and write without the pressures. Plus, it also help you organize your thoughts and what you are trying to say better.
3. The prewriting techniques I prefer are none. I really don’t have anything I do because each paper I write, I begin writing differently. I can say that I try to base my thoughts and points of a paper on quotes and statistics.
In the past I have never really used prewriting on my own to write a paper. I've had teachers in the past that have gone over it with the class, but I never think to prewrite. Its not that I don't want to use it either, I just never knew how crucial it was to writing a great paper.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks class discussion helped learn that prewriting is a great way to generate ideas and develop a thorough paper. The reading however was beneficial in showing just how many ways there are to prewrite.
My favorite prewriting technique so far would have to be webbing. Its simply the most effective technique for me. I like being able to just add in details and then build off of them, it should be easier for me to piece together a well written paper
I have used some prewriting before, though it was never as simplified and easy to relate to as it been taught to me this week. The brainstorming and prewriting techniques that I had used before were mostly based on the what I know to be highly limited, Outline application. Though I have always used freewriting and topic association since my 9th grade English class.
ReplyDeleteI thought that I had a decent understanding of prewriting and its applications for writing. I was wrong. This week I learned that things are far simpler and less complicated than I always thought and its a lot easier to generate a paper through prewriting. I always thought that you would prewrite after you had chosen your question or topic. Now my understanding is that the topic can be much broader to start and can be easily refined with prewriting, and the possibilities for ideas are limitless.
There are two prewriting techniques that I prefer. The first technique I like to use is webbing. I like the visual reference that I get from being able to see what I have written and its easy to edit and group ideas together. The webbing technique makes it very easy to put a lot of ideas down and then pick and choose the best for what suits my purpose. I Also like to use the free writing. Free writing is cool because I have a descriptive imagination and can use it to come up with very colorful analogies and transitions.
I have never really used pre-writing in my writing. I never really saw the use for the long process of naming ideas. I always think that "during writing," pre-writing worked the best for me. I would start off writing the piece, and when a new idea came to mind i would skip a couple lines in my word processor and start a new paragraph with that thought. I found that i cannot really pre-write efficiently. My teachers in my previous years have taught me pre-writing, but I do not find it beneficial. I find that often my ideas are generated as I write my paper so pre-writing doesn't cover the extent of material I need it to.
ReplyDeleteI could see where certain forms of pre-writing could help me. One such method that was tough in class was the bubble-graph method. I feel like this could help me, because it would be the closest to the method I use. This method could help me generate ideas and then think them over to branch off new ideas, sort of like what I do in my writing anyway.
My preferred way of pre-writing would be to use my word processor. I can write and focus on the idea in my mind as I formulate one paragraph, and insert newly thought up ideas into new paragraphs for later access. This, I found to be the most beneficial way of planning my writing.
I never used pre-writing for the exact reason that you said. I thought it was a waste of time and I would just whip an essay out in one shot. Not really the best way to write an essay, I know. But, if I would have known about pre-writing before this class, I probably would have used it.
ReplyDeleteBefore this weeks reading about pre-writing, I would have just tried to write a five page paper in one shot two days before it was due. But now I see how pre-writing can seriously help me come up with ideas for an essay. It’s a stress free way of coming up with giant essay ideas. I love it!
The one pre-writing technique that I really like is the web. I’m a visual learner so seeing everything I need to write a paper on broken up into specific topics web style, seriously helps me out. I’m glad you taught us this because this is going to cut a ton of time out of sitting in front of my computer just staring at the screen confused.
1. I have used prewriting before it is very useful when trying to pick a topic and building a base for my paper. I like to use it also use it to pull the ideas on my topic out of my head and on to paper.
ReplyDelete2. This week’s classes really help me come back to the basics of f prewriting and reminded me on how important it is to utilize it is. It was also a refresher for me. I was reminded that prewriting is your paper in an essence.
3. I prefer the spider web chart I helps me lay the ground work for writing my paper. The spider web chart also helps me determine what the main topics could be for my paper.
1. I suppose I have used it before, I just hadn’t called it prewriting. It seems like this step is always done, at least a little bit. Whether you do it all or not. Most of the time I think people just do the organizing step and not the other two though.
ReplyDelete2. The thing we did about prom was cool and helpful in showing how useful prewriting can be. It only took a few minutes for us as a group to come up with all those topics and even if I had done it by myself it would have been faster than just staring at a blank page waiting for inspiration.
3. The question one seems like it would be a good technique. You would be doing the first rule for the writing thing and by limiting yourself to just the questions (at least at first) you would be precise and concise.
1.Yes, I have used prewriting before, usually in the form of a list or free writing. I feel that these methods usually give me the best results when trying to search for a topic to write about and how to go about writing it.
ReplyDelete2. Prewriting helps get the ideas out of your head and on paper. This is important especially when faced with a situation such as writers block. The web technique for instance shows how one topic can inter-relate to another with many other parts, giving you many more things to put into your paper.
3.I tend to use free writing or a list. Free writing helps me warm up and start to get my mind thinking in a writing mode. While listing helps me keep things in order and then help arrange them where I want to into my paper.
I have been using a form of prewritting since I was in middle school. when giving a writting assignment, my AVID teacher would have us write down anything that comes to our mind about the assignment. We would have about 10-15 minutes to do this. After we would get started on the assignment. This is how i would always do my start my essays and writting assignments from then on.
ReplyDeleteFrom the lessons I learned about making the little bubble graph. I understand that by writting down things that have to do with the topic will get your mind going on what to write. And when you can get even more specific and get very detailed with the things that come to your mind about the topic.
I prefer my old technique even though I may try the bubble graph like technique. I feel more comfortable with writting whatever comes to your mind down on paper. I think it is just as useful as the bubbles, but I'm just more used to it.
1.) I understand that a lot of people skip the “pre-writing” step. As for myself I have been using pre-writing before I even knew that there was a word for it. I have had to write a ton of papers in my 18 years. In class we did a web type excursive on the board. I’ve used that teqnicue for years. I found it to be very helpful. I would also just jot ideas on a paper then put it altogether once I have to write my paper.
ReplyDelete2.) This week’s class and readings helped me understand why this is so important and it will only benefit you. Pre-writing is a useful tool that saves the writer time and keeps them from having unorganized thoughts, and writers bloc.
3.) Like I said in question number one, the web teqnicue. That would be my favorite because in a way its a little fun plus it’s easy. I also think people skip rough drafts I am guilty of this myself. A rough draft is your first attempt at a formal paper that is critiqued and improved on. In the rough draft you will fix spelling mistakes, run on sentences, grammar and so on.
- Kayla Van auken
1. I've used pre-writing techniques throughout my entire highschool career. I would usually just brainstorm as many ideas as I could about the topic and then write down whatever came to mind. This helped me because it gave me different things to talk about.
ReplyDelete2. This week's class helped me explore the different ways of pre-writing. Before I knew of only a few techniques and now i know of many. I feel that this week's classes made writing papers much easier.
3.I prefer the web technique because one idea can lead to another. This helps because often times you run out of things to talk about and this allows you to build off of topics already down on paper.
1.No I have not used prewriting. I was introduced to prewriting in middle school but I never really used it. I would just write whatever ideas that came to mind in a ruff draft then correct it and write the final paper.
ReplyDelete2.This weeks classesbhave really caught my attention because prewriting is good to use for a paper. The main thing its good for is it helps me collect more details and ideas for a paragraph or paper
3.The prewriting technique that I like the best is the web because I can come up with more topic ideas and a lot more details for my paragraghs and/or papers. Plus there is more then one so if one dont sound good I can use any other.
Prewriting is the method of preparing ideas before drafting. It is necessary because you don't end up getting stuck while in the middle of writing. Also you can easily edit and alter ideas and design your paper accordingly. This is why prewriting should always be used before writing an paper. I used prewring but often did not use any type of shape. My favorite would be short bullet-points around a general topic for each paragraph. This would work to get alot of good starts for paragraphs, but not any type of straight-forward organization.
ReplyDeleteThis weeks classes show the different methods not only to prewrite, but to put it all together in an understandable way. Which is something I kind of had trouble with, regarding the mass of bullet-points and not know how to put them in a logical order.
he prewriting method I prefer now is the list method because it works like the bullets but with a more logical approach. I would always try to get my writing done on the first try with the bullets, which would result a rambling mess. With the list I can get each paragrah more specific and precise.
I have never used any form of prewritting before on any project. The main reason for this is simply because i was never taught multiple forms of prewritting. I was only taught one and it didnt stick with me. So instead of me fighting with myself over the prewritting for a good amount of time i would just skip it. The classes that went along with that had greatly benefitted me in the understanding of how useful prewritting really is. Prewritting looked incredibly simple the way it was demonstrated in class and was able to give fantastic examples of the topic that was focused on. I prefer the list method because items of topic will randomly pop into my head faster than i can generally write so i cant put things together so i make a list and it makes it easier for me to see everything that i need for the topic.
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