Page 104 - Wordsmith A Guide to College Writing

LO1 Identify the Prewriting helps you become a better writer by
advantages opening your mind to the topic at hand, preventing
of writer’s block, building confidence, sparking

prewriting. creativity, and helping you know when a topic is
not worth pursuing.
How can

prewriting help
you become a
better writer?

(See pp. 23–24.)

LO2 Use Brainstorming, freewriting, focused freewriting,

various invisible writing, and clustering are prewriting
prewriting techniques. Outlining and journal writing are
strategies. methods of organizing and generating ideas that

are also part of the prewriting process.
What are some
methods of
prewriting? (See

pp. 24–32.)

Visit Ch. 2, Preparing to Write, in
MyWritingLab to test your understanding of the

chapter objectives by completing the Post-Test.