STAGES OF WRITING

1. Pre-Writing Stage

It is called the “ideation” or “invention”

stage.

Example:
General Topic: Reading
Narrowed: Developmental Reading
Narrowed further: Factors affecting Developmental Reading
Narrowed further: How sensory experience affects Dev’tal Reading
Narrowed further: The sense of sight in Dev’tal Reading
PURPOSE AUDIENCE SUBJECT
Pre-Writing Strategies
Pre-writing strategies:
a.Brainstorming
b.Oral Class Discussion
c.Free-writing or Looping
d.Speculating
e.Reading
f.Listening
g.Interview
h.Semantic Mapping or Drawing
i.Outlining
j.Informal Debate
k.Semantic Webbing or Clustering
l.Journal Writing
m.Graphic Organizers
Pre-Writing Strategies
Brainstorming

•using words and phrases in listing

down whatever comes to your mind
about your topic.
Pre-Writing Strategies
Freewriting

•writing down of thoughts and

feelings about the topic in a sentence
or in a paragraph notwithstanding
errors in grammar, spelling, and
mechanics committed during the free-
writing act.
Pre-Writing Strategies
Speculating

•asking the 5Ws 1H questions:

who, what, when, where, why, how,
 local
Pre-Writing Strategies unity
products
heritage

Clustering
nationalism
respect
for elders
•Write an idea or a topic, usually one word, in the
Filipino
center of a piece of paper. Then let your mind
Core
make associations, and Valueswrite these associations
branching out from the center.
mother
community
•When one idea suggests other ideas, details, and
examples,
love forwrite these around it in a “cluster.”
generosity
cooperation
family
After you finish, pick the cluster that most
interests you.
father siblings family
Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing

•Write down in a notebook your

thoughts, feelings, reflections about
people, places, things, events or
anything notwithstanding errors in
language, spelling, or mechanics.
Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

What happened? How do I feel What did I learn?

about it?
 Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing

SYNTHESIS JOURNAL

What I did. What I learned. How can I use it?

 Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing
DOUBLE-ENTRY JOURNAL

Quotation (a phrase or a My thoughts about the

sentence I specially like) quotation.
Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing

DIALECTIC JOURNAL

Quotation Source Why do I find

this quotation
interesting or
important
 Pre-Writing Strategies
Journal Writing

METACOGNITIVE JOURNAL

What I learned. How I learned it.

HOMEWORK

Write at least five sentences focusing on a person who

strongly influenced you.(20pts.)

Send to cjcelopre@gmail.com before next meeting.