![]() ![]() ![]() Still other forms of prewriting are intended to help you both generate and focus ideas about a subject that you’ve already chosen: Other forms of prewriting are intended to help you generate your own ideas in response to others’ ideas: Some forms of prewriting are intended to help you bring subconscious ideas and interests into consciousness (some forms help if you tend to draw a blank when you’re asked to “write about what interests you”): Ideas for writing develop in many ways, and prewriting techniques reflect the different ways in which ideas can develop. Others start writing a really “drafty draft” of an essay, and then circle back into prewriting strategies to develop ideas. Any prewriting strategy is fine, depending on “how your mind thinks” and how you like to discover and explore ideas. Still other writers list out all of the concepts and information they can think of around a certain topic, and then narrow and refine their lists. Other writers tend to just write in order to explore and identify patterns of thought. Sometimes I draw linkages to connect related ideas. In order to explore and identify what might be fruitful ideas for writing, I tend to jot concepts, phrases, and notes to myself. Prewriting invites exploration and promotes the motivation to write’ ( Strategies for Teaching Writing, 2004).” ‘The objective of prewriting,’ according to Roger Caswell and Brenda Mahler, ‘is to prepare students for writing by allowing them to discover what they know and what else they need to know. Prewriting is closely related to the art of invention in classical rhetoric. “In composition, the term prewriting refers to any activity that helps a writer think about a topic, determine a purpose, analyze an audience, and prepare to write. Prewriting means just what it says-it’s the writing that occurs before you actually write a draft. Richard Nordquist writes that ![]()
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