reader to writer

• Annotate/ active engagement - annotate your thoughts, questions, and observations

• 3 initial points

• Draft - What question do you want to answer in your writing

  • think of questions you thought of when engaging with the source

  • Why do you want to answer this question

  • What do you hope to understand that makes the reader

Pre-Writing

• Allows you to scrutinize your assumptions- question your thinking & assumptions,

  • what do you know? What should you investigate?

• Allows you to test presented evidence and counter evidence - Think about what your reader needs, what questions they might have, (counter evidence/ argument)

• Allows you to revise your thesis - Is your idea for your thesis sufficient and sensible?
  

• Allows you to know the difference between summary, forecast, and analysis

  • forecast - part of a conclusion, not

  • Analysis- explain why something is important, why it is necessary, and how it helps your argument

• Record your thoughts -

• Brainstorm- Think of ideas on how to portray your idea,

• Focused free writing - concentrating on one topic given, exploring the idea with a focal point

• Listing - Listing ideas you may want to present in your argument and what you want to discuss

• Questions- Try having questions, ideas and curiousity, test all your ideas

In class