Tutorial on pre writing strategies

1. Write before you write
Prewriting strategies
David Estrella, MTEFL

2. Contents
What they are01
Most common strategies02
Outline each strategy03
Exercises04

3. What are prewriting strategies
Prewriting strategies use writing to
generate and clarify ideas.
01
Outlining is a strategy you
already know.
02
They are also called
“brainstorming techniques.”
03

4. A B C D
Listing Clustering Freewriting Journaling
The most common strategies

5. Listing
Making a list can
help you develop
ideas for writing
once you have a
particular focus.

6. Listing
For a persuasive
essay, you might
list the top ten
reasons why
you’re taking a
position.

7. Listing
Once you have a
focused topic, you
might list the
different aspects of
that topic.

8. Listing: How to do it
1
Jot down all the possible terms
that emerge.
Do not worry about what might
not be a good idea.
Simply write down as many
possibilities as you can.

9. Listing: How to do it
2
Group the items that you have
listed so that they make sense
to you.

10. Listing: How to do it
3
Give each group a label.

11. Listing: How to do it
4
Write a sentence about the
label you have given the group
of ideas (topic sentences).

12. Listing
Ways to live a greener life:
Use natural cleaning products without propellants.
Walk or cycle to places nearby.
Use recycled products.
Take public transportation.
Recycle cans and bottles.

13. Clustering
01
02
03
04
Also called mind mapping. It
allows you to explore the
relationships between ideas.
Put the subject in the
center of a page. Circle
or underline it.As you think of other ideas,
write them on the page
surrounding the central idea.
The result will look like
a web on your page.

14. Clustering

15. Freewriting
Process of generating a lot of
information by writing non-stop.
You focus on a specific topic, but
you write so quickly that you are
unable to edit any ideas.

16. Freewriting
Freewrite for five to ten minutes
non-stop.
Do not stop writing.
Generating ideas is what is
important, not the grammar or
the spelling.

17. Freewriting
After finishing, look at your
writing and highlight the most
interesting ideas.
In the process, you will generate
several relevant points about the
topic.

18. Journaling
Jounalists always ask themselves
questions to help them write.
who, what, where, when, why, how
Ask the journalists' questions to clarify
important points

19. Questions?