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Chapter Links:
- Chapter 1: College Writing
- Chapter 2: The Writing Process
- Chapter 3: Thinking Strategies and Writing Patterns
- Chapter 4: The Research Process
- Chapter 5: Academic Integrity and Documentation
- Chapter 6: Using Library Resources
- Chapter 7: Assessing Your Writing
- Chapter 8: Other Frequently Assigned Papers
Appendix Links:
- Appendix A: Books to Help Improve Your Writing
- Appendix B: Collaborative Writing and Peer Reviewing
- Appendix C: Developing an Improvement Plan
- Appendix D: Writing Plan and Project Schedule
Other Links:
Online Guide to Writing and Research
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Chapter 2: The Writing Process
Prewriting
The purpose of prewriting is to generate an abundance of raw material and notes that will give you some strategies for writing your first draft. For most students, starting a draft too soon, without the results of the prewriting phase, leads to poorly constructed writing, often with weak generalities. Papers tend to reflect superficial treatment of the assignment. Prewriting is not an isolated event, but the way to look ahead to drafting and revising, enabling a piece of writing to grow.
Prewriting is a systematic thinking process that helps you probe what you will write. Prewriting techniques help you determine what rhetorical approach to take and how to plan for implementing it. Prewriting planning enables you to explore a topic from different perspectives, engage your imagination and creativity, discover original ideas, and perceive not-so-obvious relationships between and among ideas.
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