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In Chapter 8 of Writing for Success, please read about strategies for prewriting on pages 281-294.

(1) What prewriting strategies did you find the most useful?

(2) What ideas did you come up with? If possible, you can copy your prewriting right into your response. If that is not possible, then write a few sentences describing your ideas.

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Chapter 8
The Writing Process: How Do I Begin?
8.1
Apply Prewriting Models
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
1.
Use prewriting strategies to choose a topic and narrow the focus.
If you think that a blank sheet of paper or a blinking cursor on the computer screen is a scary sight,
you are not alone. Many writers, students, and employees find that beginning to write can be
intimidating. When faced with a blank page, however, experienced writers remind themselves that
writing, like other everyday activities, is a process. Every process, from writing to cooking, bike
riding, and learning to use a new cell phone, will get significantly easier with practice.
Just as you need a recipe, ingredients, and proper tools to cook a delicious meal, you also need a plan, resources, and adequate time to create a good written composition. In other words, writing is a process that requires following steps and using strategies to accomplish your goals.
These are the five steps in the writing process:
1.
Prewriting
2.
Outlining the structure of ideas
3.
Writing a rough draft
4. Revising
5. Editing
Effective writing can be simply described as good ideas that are expressed well and arranged in the
proper order. This chapter will give you the chance to work on all these important aspects of writing.
Although many more prewriting strategies exist, this chapter covers six: using experience and
observations, freewriting, asking questions, brainstorming, mapping, and searching the Internet.
Using the strategies in this chapter can help you overcome the fear of the blank page and confidently
begin the writing process.
Prewriting
Prewriting is the stage of the writing process during which you transfer your abstract thoughts into more
concrete ideas in ink on paper (or in type on a computer screen). Although prewriting techniques can be
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In Chapter 8 of WriTng for Success, please read about strategies for prewriTng on pages 281-294.
(1) What prewriTng strategies did you Fnd the most useful?
(2) What ideas did you come up with? If possible, you can copy your prewriTng right into your response.
If that is not possible, then write a few sentences describing your ideas.
Library Search Tutorial - part I
Discussion Topic
Video tutorial #1
http://info.umuc.edu/academicwrtg/library/temp_library_tutorial_1b/temp_library_tutorial_1b.html
Video tutorial #2
http://info.umuc.edu/academicwrtg/library/temp_library_tutorial_2/temp_library_tutorial_2.html
After you have watched the tutorials, please complete the following tasks. Post your responses to this
conference thread.
Choose a topic that you would like to know more about. You can choose a pretty general topic to
start, like "technology and education" or "nursing careers." You will use your library searches to
help you focus your search.
Search the library to find three articles on the topic you selected. Try to use some
search phrases that require that you use quotation marks, as the video demonstrates.
Now look in the search results for additional key words or other search terms that you can use to
enhance your search. If you started with a broad topic, these could be keywords that help you
focus your search on a more specific aspect of your topic.
Please post answers the following questions:
(1) What search terms did you initially search?
(2) What are three articles that you found?
(3) What additional keywords or search terms did you find that enhanced your search?