Description

In this episode, we'll talk about prewriting, focusing on three strategies: freewriting, heuristics, and clustering.

Transcript available through this link.

Additional Resources:

• MIT's "The Writing Process:  Freewriting"
• Mere Rhetoric's "Stasis Theory" (New and Improved)
• MIT's "The Writing Process:  Idea Map/Web" (Note: This is an example of clustering, just with a different name)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's "Brainstorming"
• Purdue OWL's "Prewriting Questions" and "More Prewriting Questions"
• Michelle D. Trim and Megan Lynn Isaac's "Reinventing Invention:  Discovery and Investment in Writing" (Note: The link leads to a pdf file)
• Silva Rhetoricae's "Topics of Invention."  This page lists several topoi, or categories that represent different connections among ideas.  They can act as heuristics in your prewriting.
• CCC Poster Series: "Invention" (Note:  The link leads to a pdf file)

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