Prewriting

Links verified 11/8/2019

1. Introduction to Prewriting - This section explains the prewriting (invention) stage of the composing process. It includes processes, strategies, and questions to help you begin to write.
2. Organizing and Pre-Writing - Prewriting exercises provide key words, meaning, and structure to your research before you write your first draft, and may help you overcome "writers block."
3. Prewriting - Ideas on prewriting techniques [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
4. Prewriting -The Write Site - activities you can use to help plan and organize your writing [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Prewriting Process - A summary put together to help educators and students see how the Writing Process fits with various programs they may already be using.[This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Graphic Organizers - several examples of how to use graphic organizers in brainstorming or pre-writing activities
7. Prewriting: Clustering - a type of prewriting that allows you to explore many ideas as soon as they occur to you.
8. Prewriting: Hatching New Ideas - how to get new ideas in the first place
9. Prewriting Practice - lab activity to help students use different prewriting techniques
10. Prewriting Practice - another lab activity to help students use different prewriting techniques
11. Prewriting Strategies - prewriting techniques [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
12. Six Prewriting Steps - prepare your ideas for your essay before you begin writing