Pre-Writing Strategies
Pre-writing is a way of organizing your thoughts and beginning to put the information you have on paper. It is best to do a pre-writing activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay.
Basic Prewriting Strategies
- You should use pre-writing to...
- think more clearly
- see a start of your paper
- keep track of your ideas
- practice expressing yourself in writing
- Develop paper in pre-writing strategies
- Visualize/Organize Major Categories in pre-writing strategies
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