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Pre-Writing Cycle
Outlining

In many respects, the actual writing of an adequate multiparagraph paper is anti-climactic to the preparation required to generate one. Perhaps the most difficult part of writing is "thinking" – the creating, assembling, qualifying, and organizing of ideas. These activities are a necessary preliminary to "getting it down on paper" and are, therefore, frequently described as constituting the "pre-writing cycle."  In this cycle, you may any one of a number of planning techniques to decide what to write.  After planning the scope of the content, you organize your content into an outline which forms the basis of your first draft.

Paradigm

Discovering What to Write
Commnet Getting Started: Brainstorming
OWL Planning (Invention)
 

 

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