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The Pre-Writing Process

1. Figure out the relationships of the ideas, there is a unified theme in your writing.

2. You may use graphic representation

3. Identify which ideas are broad and/or general and which ideas are specific.

4. Pinpoint one topic that you think is the most interesting

5. Understand why you are writing the paper. Pinpoint your goal for writing the paper. Are you writing to inform, to describe, to persuade, or to entertain?

6. Think of the people who will possibly read your paper

Freewriting

It is a technique in which the author writes their thoughts quickly and continuously without worrying about form, style, or even grammar. It produces a handful of ideas that you can later rearrange and develop further.

Brainstorming

Gathering a large number of thoughts, ideas, and perspectives that can help you with your topic. Provides you with many benefits as a writer and ultimately allows you to consider a wide variety of ideas and concepts before starting your next writing project.

Clustering/Mapping

These are techniques used to visually organize and group information, often to explore relationships between ideas or data points.

Organizing your paper

means finding the connections of one point to another and establishing a link from one idea to another. As a writer your main aim is to organize your ideas in a logical order.

Logical order

refers to the sequence or arrangement of ideas or information in a way that makes sense and is easy for the reader or listener to follow. Making an outline

Plagiarism

Deliberate copying somebody’s work and claiming that work to be his/her own; Using somebody’s else’s work or ideas without proper acknowledgement or citation; Copying the text without paraphrasing it.

How to avoid plagiarism

Paraphrasing; Directly quote the sentence or the paragraph

Paraphrasing

IS restating the someone’s ideas or text using your own wordst is a process of the maintaining the original meaning. Is one of the ways to avoid plagiarism

Quotations

must be identical to the original text; a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.

Murray 2005

According to him, “Writing is revising”.

revising and editing

two processes involved in post-writing: