Prewriting

In this episode, we'll talk about prewriting, focusing on three strategies: freewriting, heuristics, and clustering.Transcript available through this link.Additional Resources:MIT's "The Writing Process:  Freewriting"Mere Rhetoric's "Stasis Theory" (New and Improved)MIT's "The Writing Process:  Idea Map/Web" (Note: This is an example of clustering, just with a different name)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's "Brainstorming"Purdue OWL's "Prewriting Questions" and "More Prewriting Questions"Michelle D. Trim and Megan Lynn Isaac's "Reinventing Invention:  Discovery and Investment in Writing" (Note: The link leads to a pdf file)Silva Rhetoricae's "Topics of Invention."  This page lists several topoi, or categories that represent different connections among ideas.  They can act as heuristics in your prewriting.CCC Poster Series: "Invention" (Note:  The link leads to a pdf file) Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0