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Gage, John T. – Freshman English News, 1981
Discusses the pedagogical consequences that follow from distinguishing invention from prewriting. Contrasts the importance of stasis in invention, and the resulting importance of writing with an audience in mind, with prewriting techniques that merely direct students toward exploring a topic without reference to an audience. (RL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Ramsey, Allen – 1981
Writers who double back to alter diction and syntax change their understanding of what it is they are saying, thereby clarifying their understanding and enhancing the discovery of new ideas. Revision, when taken this way, is often a form of invention. The difficulty in teaching revision is that writing has mistakenly been regarded as a linear…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Prewriting, Rhetoric
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Beck, James P. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Describes method in which students write a draft requiring some writing skill before learning about that skill. Concludes that predrafting (1) enforces first-drafting; (2) shows students their natural writing abilities; (3) emphasizes discovery of substance first, rules and form second; (4) promotes an active student role; (5) arranges learning in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Hartnet, Carolyn G. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Lists eight ways to develop a topic for a composition. (DF)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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Thorne, Sheila – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1993
Argues that prewriting is the most important skill to emphasize and practice extensively in basic writing classes. Describes basic writers as almost universally neglecting prewriting activities. Suggests some guidelines for teaching prewriting effectively. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Prewriting
Comprone, Joseph J. – 1978
This paper discusses the use of film in teaching the composing process to students. Beginning with a description of the composing process in general, it continues with a discussion of problem-solving, composing, and film, using "The Shopping Bag Lady" as an illustrative film. This is followed by a consideration of how to use film to generate form…
Descriptors: Films, Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods
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Phillips, D. – English Quarterly, 1982
Suggests that using a formula approach to constructing topic sentences can serve to motivate student writing and to inform students about the methods used to produce mass circulation fiction and tabloid writing. (AEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Motivation Techniques, Prewriting, Sentences
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MacKenzie, Nancy – Exercise Exchange, 1988
Offers a nonverbal prewriting strategy, writer-based sketches, intended to help students turn their thoughts into words. (MS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Rhetorical Invention, Secondary Education
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Murray, Donald M. – Rhetoric Review, 1986
Explores the mental processes involved in preparing to write. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Creativity, Higher Education, Prewriting
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Karloff, Kenneth – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Adapts Edward de Bono's "Intermediate Impossible" strategy--for considering ideas that normally would be discarded as stepping-stones to new ideas--for use as a prewriting activity to enhance creative problem solving. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, High Schools, Higher Education, Prewriting
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DuBois, Barbara R. – Exercise Exchange, 1984
Describes five prewriting activities for courses that emphasize writing and deemphasize discussion of literature. The activities focus on organization and theme statement so that students think about every possible subject, theme, and approach. (HTH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Activities, Prewriting, Teaching Methods
Harris, Jeanette – Freshman English News, 1988
Argues that students need invention strategies as well as introspection to collect information and make sense of it, but they also need instruction in discriminating among invention strategies and help in choosing the best strategy for a given writing task. Three overlooked strategies are research, collaboration, and form. (RS)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Prewriting, Rhetorical Invention
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Washington, Eugene – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1985
Discusses the heuristic role of yes-no questions in college composition and provides two such methods for brainstorming and focusing. Presents a binary graph device ("Matrix") that correlates subjects and concerns to generate yes-no questions. Also presents a flow-chart model structuring information in the question-evidence-resolution pattern. (JG)
Descriptors: Heuristics, Higher Education, Language Usage, Prewriting
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Geller, Marjorie – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Describes a method for teaching students to connect their ideas causally or logically in their writing by talking about the ideas before beginning to write. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discussion, Higher Education, Logic
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Libbee, Michael; Young, Dennis – Journal of Geography, 1983
Research suggests that good writers differ from poor writers. Teachers who develop prewriting exercises, emphasize multiple draft assignments, help the student think about revision, and evaluate the product can help undergraduates write and think more clearly. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Prewriting, Skill Development
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