92 Application: Blending Prewriting Strategies
Try This!
The following is a reflective exercise that blends freewriting, listing, and reflecting. Grab your writing tools (pen and paper, laptop, or smart tablet) and get ready to write. Your answers can be as long as you like. There’s no limit on how much you can freewrite in one sitting, but you will want to:
- In your own words, describe how writing is a process. There’s no need to worry about grammar and neat organization; just write whatever comes to mind.
- Next, list as many stages of that process as you can. Again, write without worrying about creating a perfect list. Any list will work.
- Finally, think about your writing process. Which of the writing process steps explained in this chapter do you use all the time? Are there any that you have never used or rarely use? Why?
- Thinking ahead, what strategies will you use for your next writing assignment? What would be new or exciting to try? What strategies don’t appeal to you and why?