As I torture myself on writing a paper on Anorexia. I have to jot down many ideas of what anorexia involves such as: health risks, starvation, peer pressure, possible family pressures and why would some one actually want to starve their bodies of many needed nutrients for the fundamentals of growth. So I guess this is brainstorming.
In the other technique of prewriting is free writing. In free writing, I just let my mind flow. I jot down ideas that I get after I brainstorm and these ideas are not in full sentences, sometimes they are just little segments of the sentence. With these little segments I can add to as they are needed in the paragraph. Some ideas that I have will never be used not because they are not good ideas just because could not fit them in to my paper any where.
So I guess you can say brainstorming and free writing are really valuable techniques in order to have a great paper in the end. We just need to take one step at a time.
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Laura,
ReplyDeleteI like using freewriting and brainstorming also, they both are clear and very easy to understand. I try not to over due myself when starting out trying to find a topic or what to write about, I just write until topics come to mind. Therefore, I agree with you when you said, “brainstorming and free writing are really valuable techniques”. I wish you the best with your final project!
Alicia Steele Little