College Writing

College Writing Study Guide into supporting points. At this point, you can either �ill in your cluster into a more struc- tured outline, or you can begin your paper. o Cubing – allowing you to fully explore one noun or one idea, cubing requires that you ask six questions about a subject. After you answer these questions, you’ll have a better understanding of your subject, but the structure of the exercise doesn’t directly trans- late to what you’ll write in your paper:  Describe it: What does it look like?  Compare it: What is it like?  Associate it: What is it connected to in your mind?  Analyze it: What are its parts? • Unstructured Pre-writing o Free writing – the most common form of pre-writing, freewriting is all about getting rid of your inner censor. When you free write you shouldn’t judge what appears on the paper; the only commandment is that you don’t stop writing. Put as many words on paper as fast as you can about your subject – and even if your free writing wanders into other subjects, that’s okay too. The best way to free write is to set a timer and not stop writing until �ifteen or twenty minutes have passed. Perfect for unclogging ideas and for cases of writers block, by its nature free writing requires that you go back to organ- ize your thoughts. What you write during free writing doesn’t work as a formal com- position. o Looping – freewriting gets a littlemore structure in looping. You shouldwrite for about �ive minutes, and re - read your free writing. Try to �ind one central idea that relates to your paper, and then free write about that idea for �ive minutes. Do the same for the second free write as well. The purpose of this exercise is to focus your free writing while also providing you an opportunity to explore the associations your mind makes about a subject. Whatever method of pre-writing that you choose, it is important that you don’t skip out on this im- portant part of the writing process. Pre-writing is essential to ensuring that your paper is organized and well-thought-out. Writers who dive into the composition of their papers without pre-writing will often �ind that they will have to spend even more time revising their compositions than they would if they had simply taken ten minutes to pre-write at the beginning of the process.  Apply it: How is it used?  Argue for or against it

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