Daniel R's Prewriting Process

Prewriting helps the writer become prepared for the writing he or she is about to do. It can help you become prepared in your state of mind or physically. One of the benefits of prewriting is it helps you overcome stress that you may have had or writers block.

While brainstorming, you can gather all of your thoughts of what you need to do. The writer can write down any main points they want to cover in the paper. You may find it helpful to write an outline at this time. To come up with an effective outline you need to rearrange all of the terms you wrote down so they are organized. Having a friend there can help out with this process as well. You can have your friend write down any ideas you have as your saying them aloud. Saying the aloud helps so you don’t forget what you were saying when you write them down.

After brainstorming you need to start drawing up your paper. To draw up your paper you can use a white board or a large sheet of paper. Drawing it up helps you visualize what you want the paper to look like. The write can put down the terms they want to use and find a way to link them all together. Linking them together helps the writer see the big picture.

The last thing you need to do is start to free write. One good way to correctly free write is to time yourself. The writer doesn’t need to worry about it sounding good or making sense. Don’t stop writing until the time is up. Free writing is supposed to help you generate some ideas that you want to have in your paper.

Try not to spend too much time prewriting or it will soon become underproductive, because you still need to actually start the project. Hopefully this helps you in your writing process and does not make you procrastinate.



Resources:
http://www.thewritingsite.org/resources/managing/workshop/prewrite.asp
missryan.matt-morris.com/writingprocess.ppt
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/writing-process/5805