Comp Notes
Comp Notes is a podcast for college students in first-year writing courses. We'll cover the concepts you'll discuss in class, giving you a chance to reinforce or grow your understanding of them.
Comp Notes
Prewriting
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Mark Sutton
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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