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Coldiron, A. E. B. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Adapts a classical concept to the composition classroom in a prewriting exercise which offers a wide range of benefits. (RS)
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges
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

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

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
Bell, Arthur H. – Curriculum Review, 1981
Professional speakers often use simple mental recipes to organize impromptu talks. The author taught these recipes to his high school composition students and used a timed trial format to give them practice in rapidly outlining their thoughts on a given topic. Thirteen of these recipes are provided. (SJL)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Activities, Prewriting, Teaching Methods
Escoe, Adrienne S., Ed. – SWRL Instructional Improvement Digest, 1982
Generating writing ideas is often a serious obstacle for students. Some classroom techniques to help them out of this dilemma include word associating and self-questioning. Students can also construct a matrix chart with the subheadings from their information resources. Once ideas are generated, they can be arranged in appropriate presentation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Organization, Prewriting, Skill Development

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

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

Rodrigues, Raymond J. – English Journal, 1983
Describes different types of prewriting activities such as "brainwriting," visual synectics, and relational algorithms. (JL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Activities, Prewriting
Kelder, Richard – 1986
By engaging in philosophical discussion in their writing, freshman composition students can discover that writing is a mediating tool between the self and the objective world, a means to examine the nature of reality and their thinking processes. Introducing philosophical issues opens the door for the investigation of difficult and abstract topics…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Philosophy
Reynolds, Mark – 1982
Freewriting can be more than merely a prewriting heuristic that provides preparation for more advanced kinds of writing. A class at Jefferson Davis State Junior College (Alabama) attempts to promote the lack of pressure as well as the freedom and spontaneity that freewriting allows to a traditional composition course. In this class, freewritings…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Prewriting, Sequential Approach

Baldwin, Dean R. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Suggests the value of a prewriting sheet which asks remedial students to specify an occasion, audience, and purpose for each of their one-paragraph papers. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Perspective Taking, Prewriting

Johnston, Brian – English in Australia, 1982
Points out the value of responding to students' first drafts of papers, outlines a three-step approach for doing so, and gives five examples of such an approach. (JL)
Descriptors: Feedback, Prewriting, Questioning Techniques, Secondary Education
Robitaille, Marilyn M. – 1987
Designed to combine the science and the art of teaching composition, this series of assignments encourages junior high and high school writing students to explore tone, original visual images, point of view, and other literary techniques. One assignment asks students to write a number of paragraphs alternately using sarcasm, humor, melancholy, and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Instructional Innovation, Prewriting
Jenseth, Richard – 1984
The expressive reading journal aims to break through student passivity by asking students to write extensively and expressively about what they read, each time they read, and to make discoveries and take possession of what they read. This type of journal in the academic course depends for its usefulness on the nature of expressive language, the…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Reading Improvement, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods