Using Pre-Writing

strategies
Mr. Lance Alexis M. Francisco
Pre-writing
• The first stage of the writing process.
• Allows you to communicate with yourself so you can discover what
you want to communicate to your readers.

• In determining the writing situation pre-writing stage begins with

KNOWING THE KIND OF PAPER, WRITING SITUATION, and determining
the PURPOSE.
To Write Effectively;

You must recognize who your readers are and anticipate

their expectations, background, and knowledge of the topic.
After you have determined your audience and purpose, you
are ready to think about your papers topic.

The TOPIC is the subject or specific issue that your paper

will discuss.
Consider the TONE after having your thought about the
purpose, audience, and topic.
• Tone refers to the attitude and feelings you want your writing to reflect
toward your purpose, topic, audience, and yourself.

• Point of view ( first, second, third)

• Sentence structure ( long and short sentences)
• Chosen words ( connotation and denotation)

• We have 3 Pre-writing Strategies if you have no idea to start finding your

writing topic.
PRE-WRITING STARTEGIES

BRAINSTORMING- provide yourself with as many choices for your topic as

possible. One of the better and more popular methods of discovering your writing
topic.

CLUSTERING OR MAPPING- is another technique that you can use by writing a

word or phrase at the center of the page and encircle it. Then think of other words
that are related to the main topic.

FREEWRITING- writing down your thoughts nonstop, in the exact order, language
and form in that you think them. You write quickly as you can to create constant
momentum of your thoughts. The rules of grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
and style do not matter here.
Writing Thesis
Statement
Mr. Lance Alexis M. Francisco
Thesis Statement
• Is the central idea of an essay, around which all other ideas revolve.
• Determining what you should or should not include in your work.
• Reflects on your purpose of writing, main point and your stand,
directing the entire flow of your writing.
• It is not the subject or topic itself but an interpretation of the topic.

• It is the product of thinking about your ideas, seeking for evidence,

and looking for relationships.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE THESIS STATEMENT

1. Responds to the assignment by following instructions.

2. Expresses the main idea in one to two sentences.
3. Focuses on a specific issue
4. States a stand on the topic
5. Say something meaningful by answering the questions “So
what?” “How?” “Why?”
6. Previews the rest of the essay by being placed in the intro.
7. Reflects a tone and point-of-view appropriate to the identified
purpose and audience.
Activity……
• Choose something that you find the most interesting. Assume a purpose,
audience, tone, and point of view and use another pre-writing strategy.

1. Prom (journal writing)

2. Summer vacation (mapping)
3. Pop music (brainstorming)
4. Social media (group brainstorming)

• What do you think is the most important benefit of pre-writing? Why?