Prewriting Strategies
This type of strategy is when you question what you are writing about.
What is questioning and/or journalists' questions?
It is a list of first-hand experiences about reading or composing or something you know a lot about or are good at in any form or context.
What is a literacy narrative?
Prewriting, drafting, revision, editing, and publication are parts of the?
What is the writing process?
This is where you (as the writer) consider whether you are writing to inform, entertain/ express, or argue.
What is the purpose?
Takes having something to say and clear thinking.
What makes good writing?
This prewriting strategy is when you give yourself a set amount of time to generate information.
What is freewriting?
In writing a literacy narrative this is something you must consider before writing.
What audience is being addressed? (Who am I writing this for?)
This is anything you do before you write a draft of your document.
What is prewriting?
When writing anything, this is when you consider who is being addressed?
Who is the audience?
Good writing does this with an idea clearly and effectively.
What is communicates?
This prewriting strategy is a process of producing a lot of information usually in bullet points.
What is listing and/or brainstorming?
These are used throughout the narrative along with story elements to explore and describe the meaning of your narrative.
What are descriptions or what is descriptive writing?
This occurs when you put your ideas into sentences and paragraphs.
What is drafting?
This is the content of your writing.
What is the topic?
Having something to say. Logical and clear thinking. A few simple, learnable rules of style (tools you are learning in this course), are what helps make this.
What is a good writer?
This strategy is when you put the subject in the center of the page, either in a circle or underlined, then build around it.
What is clustering and/or mapping?
Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.
What are the five senses?
This is the key to effective writing.
What is revision?
This describes the circumstances surrounding your writing, including time (when the text was written), location (blog, essay, etc.), and the culture surrounding the text.
What is the context?
Use this to search for the right word rather than settling for any old word.
What is a thesaurus?
What is prewriting?
"She inhaled deeply; the scent of lilac hitting her nostrils to deliver a euphoric aroma that gave her a heady delight. This momentary respite, of course, pushed a tender smile to appear on her cheek, and she instantly became famous for this very smile." Is a great example of?
What is sensory detail?
This is where you check for such things as grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
What is editing?
This term refers to any set of circumstances that involves at least one person using some sort of communication to modify the perspective of at least one other person.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Two answers to two questions. Before you start writing, ask this.
When you finish writing, ask this.
What am I trying to say?
Have I said?