Pre-Writing + Thesis + Outlining

pre-writing

first stage of the writing process

purpose of writing

inform, explain, persuade, and entertain

Purpose

reason why you are writing

Audience

your target reader

Topic

 subject or the specific issue

Tone

attitudes and feelings you want your writing to reflect

Brainstorming

• better and more popular methods

• aim is to provide yourself with as many choices

Clustering or Mapping

starts by writing a word at the center

Freewriting

• involves writing down your thoughts nonstop

• connected ideas out of the writer’s mind

Thesis Statement

statement encapsulates the central idea of the essay

Working Thesis Statement

an argument containing your stand

Argumentative

• clear position

• goal is to persuade your reader of a claim

Expository

Analyzes, interprets or evaluates different aspects of a topic

Analytical

Aims to explain and discuss the facts of a topic

Outline

summary that gives the essential features of a text

Reading Outline

outline that is used to get the main idea of a text that is already written

Writing Outline

• skeletal version of your essay used to organize your ideas

• done before your first essay draft