No class 22 Feb; Assignment for Monday: 25 Feb.

Due Monday, 25 Feb.

Do the pre-writing--not the drafting--for the draft which is due Wednesday. Remember, for Wednesday, you're drafting body paragraphs for an essay exploring where you want your life to be in four years. You are dividing this description into four parts: personal, professional, academic, and civic. I know for most of you, your normal writing process is to get right into drafting. Resist the urge, as I want you to experiment with different techniques useful for pre-writing.

For each of the sections of your draft--personal, professional, civic, and academic, use a different pre-writing technique. These have been discussed in the text or in class. These techniques include free-writing, brainstorming, clustering, listing, questioning, and research. Post the results of your experiment in a google doc and add the rest of the class as collaborators. What you are doing is exploring ways to gather knowledge you can use when you draft, and you're looking for one or two which work well for you.

This exercise will also allow you to add a block to the process part of your writing inventory.



Steve