Pre-writing activities such as clustering, brainstorming, asking questions, and taking focused notes can help writers develop their ideas before drafting. These techniques help writers (1) think through their topic, (2) organize their ideas in an outline, and (3) produce better writing with supported ideas. Specific strategies are suggested, such as creating a web of related ideas in clustering, freely listing all thoughts in brainstorming, questioning to explore different perspectives, and engaging actively with a reading by taking notes to support one's own opinion. Pre-writing saves time and leads to clearer, better structured writing.
This workshop reviews what prewriting is and how it can help in the writing process. It also goes over different prewriting techniques and how to do them.
This workshop reviews what prewriting is and how it can help in the writing process. It also goes over different prewriting techniques and how to do them.
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A great deal of your time university will be spent thinking; thinking about what people have said,
what you have read, what you yourself are thinking and how your thinking has changed. It is
generally believed that the thinking process involves two aspects: reflective thinking and critical
thinking. They are not separate processes; rather, they are closely connected (Brookfield 1987).
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Lecture describing how students should organise data acquired through their literature review and how they should map and analyse the ideas they are working with. Includes tips on how to work with and address literature critically, how to write an introduction to their review and what tutors are looking for in a literature review. This slideshow is intended for students of the BA (Hons) Broadcast Media at the University of Brighton.
2. Pre-writing activities
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “The formulation and
organization of ideas preparatory to writing”
• Prewriting can help you:
• 1. Think. Writing → creative act of communication.
– something to say implies thinking
– putting your ideas down on paper (or the computer)
helps you collect and develop your ideas.
• 2. Have well-organized, clear writing.
– To come up with ideas, organize those ideas and
develop a plan for your paper.
– Having a plan will lead to a well-structured writing
assignment.
3. • 3. Save you time.
– Ideas on paper → you have something to
work with → an outline (first draft easier)
– Revise and edit your final paper.
• 4. Produce better writing.
– think and generate support for your ideas.
– Better supported ideas = better piece of
writing.
4. Clustering
• See your ideas and their connection.
• Also called mind mapping or idea
mapping.
• Clustering is especially useful in
determining the relationship between
ideas.
– distinguish how the ideas fit together.
– where there is an abundance of ideas.
5. • Put the topic in the center of a page. Circle
or underline it.
• Link the new ideas to the central circle
with lines.
• As you think of ideas that relate to the new
ideas, add to those in the same way.
• The result will look like a web on your
page.
– Locate clusters of interest to you, and use the
terms you attached to the key ideas as
departure points for your paper.
6. Brainstorming
• Helps you to activate your own
knowledge and ideas related to the
assigned topic.
• Write down everything about your topic
(no sentences)
• Don’t worry about the order of the ideas,
or whether some ideas are general and
others are details
• Don't try to connect your thoughts.
7. • In general the brainstorming process is the
following:
• Pick a word, idea, or concept
• Quickly list all the words and phrases that the
target brings to mind (Don’t pause when writing)
• Don't stop writing until you run out of
associations.
• Group the items that you have listed according to
arrangements that make sense to you.
• Give each group a label. Now you have a topic
with possible points of development.
8. Asking yourself question
• Questions that a person might have about your topic.
• Answering these questions will help the writer to
supply the details a reader may find necessary to
understand the topic.
• Writer can get a different slant on the topic.
• Who is X?
• What is X?
• When is X? / when was X? / when will X be?
• Where is X?
• Why is X ?
• How is X?
9. Taking notes from a Reading
• Decide what your opinion on the topic will be.
• Take notes on the parts that show that your
opinion is the correct one.
• Reading is a two-way communication
process between you and an author. To be an
active reader, learn to "talk" directly to the
author in your mind and in your notes.
• One problem students write down ideas
without a focus.
– Discard anything that doesn't directly help you in
developing your thesis.