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Peer reviewedKing, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Freewriting is an effective means of teaching students how to develop persona in writing. One approach is to have students imagine that they are inanimate objects or nonhuman creatures, provide them with a specific situation or environment, and ask them to freewrite for five to ten minutes. Another slant is to have them become famous historical…
Descriptors: Free Writing, High Schools, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedChambers, Joanne; Quick, Doris – English Journal, 1982
Describes a remedial writing class in which students learned organizational skills by cutting up and rearranging their own freewriting on a particular topic. (JL)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Learning Activities, Minimum Competencies, Prewriting
Peterson, Robert J. – 1984
The brain-flow writing technique, which might also be called the "fast flow" technique, offers a particularly useful means of helping adults overcome writer's block. It also offers some bonuses in the form of enhanced creativity, improved thought-flow, and much faster writing output. There are six steps to brain-flow writing. In the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Cognitive Processes, Free Writing, Learning Activities
