Module 5: Pre-Writing Process

 

For some reason, I have always dreaded the pre-writing process. It didn’t take a long time, it was just finding that time to sit down and really concentrate on what I wanted to do for my original writing assignment. The first thing I did was just looked at the genres and thought about which seemed most interesting to me. I then decided I wanted to choose poetry. From there, I thought of some questions I wanted to answer in my informative essay such as how is poetry defined?, how can we find ways to incorporate it more into classrooms?, etc. Then the free-writing (or typing in my case) began. I just randomly typed anything I could think of that popped up in my mind. And lastly, I just started to skim some readings, taking random points from there. This didn’t really build a traditional “outline”, but it definitely helped me collect my thoughts and point me in the direction I wanted to go in.