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Effective Pre-writing Strategies for Successful Writing Process

Learn to choose a topic, identify audience and purpose, gather details, and use key strategies for pre-writing to enhance your writing process.

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Effective Pre-writing Strategies for Successful Writing Process

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  1. Writing ProcessEnglish II

  2. Things you do during prewriting Choose your topic Identify your audience Identify your purpose Gather details to support your topic

  3. AUDIENCE • ANYONE who is going to read your work • Knowing your audience determines: a. Information included b. Word choice c. Details (Will you need to convince your audience?) d. Formal/informal

  4. PURPOSE What is the PURPOSE of your writing? a. Inform b. Explain c. Entertain d. Persuade These are the FOUR purposes.

  5. SUMMARY: Knowing your PURPOSE determines a. Information included b. Word choice c. Details (Will you need to convince your audience?) d. Formal/informal

  6. PRE-WRITING SUMMARY: What do we do? • Choose your topic • Identify your audience • Identify yourpurpose • Gather details and ideas to support your topic

  7. PRE-WRITING STRATEGIES • Free writing • Brainstorming • Clustering • Asking questions/research

  8. DRAFTING • Turn ideas into sentences • Decide on order of details • Your writing begins to look like a formal piece of writing

  9. MAIN IDEA • The main point the paper is trying to prove or support • Topic sentence –define • Thesis statement (or CLAIM) -- define

  10. STYLE • Formal? • Informal? Often determined by PURPOSE

  11. ORGANIZATIONAL METHODS • Chronological order • Spatial order • Compare and contrast • Emphatic order (Order of importance) • Pro and Con (lists)

  12. REVISING • CONTENT LEVEL CHANGES • Unity? Does it all stay on topic? • Coherence? Does it flow? Why is this step important?

  13. EDITING / PROOF-READING • MECHANICS: details • Spelling • Grammar • Punctuation • Capitalization Why is this step important?

  14. PRESENTING • What is presenting? • What you do for a • Written copy? • Oral presentation? • Power Point? Why is this step important?

  15. CYCLICAL PROCESS • CYCLICAL --revisit each stage as needed. • It in NOT a linear (straight line) process.

  16. kfrench@clinton.k12.mo.us

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