Using Collecting Strategies
Once you've selected a subject, you need to gather details for writing. The activities and strategies that follow should help you do this. If you need to explore your writing ideas in great detail, and if time permits, use two or more of these strategies.Gathering Your Thoughts:
1. Freewriting—At this point, you can approach freewriting in two ways.
(1) You can do a focused freewriting, exploring your subject from a number of different angles. (2) You can approach your freewriting as if it were a quick version of the actual paper. A quick version will give you a good feel for your subject and will also tell you how much you know about it or need to find out.
2. Clustering—Try clustering again, this time with your subject as the nucleus word. This clustering will naturally be more focused or structured than an initial clustering since you now have a specific subject in mind.3. 5 W's Of Writing—Answer the 5 W's-Who? What? When? Where? and Why?—to identify basic information about your subject. Add the question "How?" to list for better coverage. I said it didn't I? How is a far more important question that the 5 W's of Writing, right? If it weren't the words for better coverage wouldn't exist in the sentence after the word, "How". —Lumna10.
4. Directed Writing—Write whatever comes to mind about your subject, using one of the modes listed below. Repeat the process as often as you need to, selecting a different mode each time.
Models below.
4a. Describe it. What do you see, hear, feel, smell, taste ... ?
4b. Compare it. What is it similar to? What is it different from?
4c. Apply it. What can you do with it? How can you use it?
4d. Associate it.
What connections between this and something else come to mind?
4e. Analyze it. What parts does it have? How do they work together?
4f. Argue for or against it. What do you like about it? Not like about it? What are against it. its strengths and its weaknesses?5. Directed Dialoguing—Create a dialogue between two people in which your specific subject is the topic of the conversation. The two speakers should build on each other's comments about the subject.
6. Audience Appeal—Select a specific audience to address in an exploratory writing. Consider a group of preschoolers, a live television audience, the readers of a popular teen magazine, the local school board. This writing will help you see your subject in new ways.7. Questioning—Ask questions to gather information about your subject. You can use the questions in the chart below if your subject falls into any of these three different categories: problems (student apathy), policies (grading), or concepts (student internships).
"'Good writing is formed partly by planning and partly by accident.'" Ken Macrorie.
If you are just a reader and had haven't tried your own hand at writing your own stories, well woe to you then and my regards because only fellow writers are allowed to correct and suggest things to fellow authors.
Readers do not have the authority to correct an author unless they have had some experience in writing and are writer themselves, sorry.Here's the proof—From 2b in The Results of last chapter is the following sentence. Share your writing with your peers. You can learn a great deal by reading and reacting to the freewriting of your fellow writers.
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