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Anson, Chris M. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Presents a procedural model for use as a prewriting strategy to help students "decenter" or distance themselves from their writing and avoid the generalities that characterize egocentric writing. The model provides opposing viewpoints in a student's analysis of problems or issues. (HTH)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Higher Education, Prewriting, Writing Instruction

Kalgren, Ann – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
Semantic mapping is offered as a prewriting strategy to help students (of all ages) with hearing impairments organize and structure their writing. Semantic mapping can offer these students a visual access to the writing process. (DB)
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Organization, Prewriting, Semantics

Kamler, Barbara – English in Australia, 1982
Presents a professional writer and writing teacher's ideas on writing and the writing process. (JL)
Descriptors: Authors, Prewriting, Teacher Role, Writing Instruction

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)

McNair, John R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Describes a prewriting technique in which technical writing students are given a tool or mechanism with which they are unfamiliar and told to figure out what the object is from a series of clues. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Prewriting
Clark, Gregory – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Uses a broad definition of technical writing (practical writing) as a backdrop for two freshman composition courses. Introduces a student planning sheet for "thinking in"--examining the audience and purpose of a writing assignment. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Prewriting, Technical Writing
Harris, Jeanette – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1981
Urges basic writing instructors to teach prewriting and rewriting as seriously as they teach writing. Decribes the implementation of this approach which forces students to proceed through all three stages of writing in a structured classroom setting for each composition assignment. Provides an example showing a students' writing improvement. (AYC)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Prewriting, Remedial Instruction

Washington, Gene – English Quarterly, 1983
Presents a procedure writing students can use, either singly or in groups, to exploit the general knowledge they have of common objects, artifacts, and institutions. Describes the use of a matrix to integrate knowledge about realms, or areas of interest, and concerns, or problems. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Group Activities, Models, Prewriting

Ellis, Grace W. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Argues against requiring students to prepare formal outlines before writing papers and recommends instead that students prepare the rough, idiosyncratic lists that working writers use before they write. (AEA)
Descriptors: Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges, Writing (Composition)

Hashimoto, Irvin – College English, 1983
Presents a relatively simple set of graphic methods that students can use to sort and organize information that traditional methods of outlining and organizing do not handle well. (JL)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Information Processing, Organization

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
Strickland, K. James – 1983
Computers, if programed to respond to writer-generated content with heuristic strategies, can guide the writer in the prewriting stage. Heuristics are problem solving strategies that can aid the writer in exploring a topic either through a systematic posting of relevant questions or through an unsystematic process of free-association. To date the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Higher Education, Prewriting

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

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

Boiarsky, Carolyn – English Journal, 1982
Discusses four stages through which writers pass during prewriting. Offers ways of helping students pass through these stages so that they can begin to organize their writing more effectively. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Prewriting