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Summary: This site is a tool for teachers, teaching them that students need to learn pre-writing in order to develop good writing habits. The author says that the pre-writing stage is when the student should think and develop their ideas about a topic. The pre-writing stage has no right or wrong answer. The author of the site explained pre-writing strategies in detail. Stating that it is one of the more important writing steps, that it needs to be cemented before students can go on learning how to write. Pre-writing is the time for students to explore topics by brainstorming, talking, drawing and reading. How is it useful? The site explained pre-writing and gave examples on how to teach it. I now have a clear understanding of pre-writing and know it is useful. The author wrote that pre-writing is a fundamental basic of the writing process, that all other writing skills build off of this one. Why is it useful? The author of this article gave examples on how to teach pre-writing to students. The author said to ask the students an open ended question like what is your favorite thing about snow? There is no right or wrong answer to this question, but there are many answers. The use of this example helped me understand pre-writing and how it is used. How is it credible? The site is contains many articles for use in the classroom. A site like this could not maintain a reputation with teachers if it contained false information. Why is it credible? The article is on a site made for teachers. Teachers make the article and then share it with other teachers. Citation: Despirt Debbie (2007). Teach The Prewriting Stage. Retrieved on November 7, 2009 from http://teachers-subject-guides.suite101.com/article.cfm/prewriting_stage.

I was suprised to find this information where I did. I found it on a college website and the subject I was looking for was right at the top. In addition it takes you through the whole pre-writing process, starting with directed questioning to get you going. It then moves on to freewriting to get some of your ideas on paper, followed by brainstorming which could be incorporated into the freewriting process. This was a short but very helpful listing for the pre-writing process.

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Prewriting Strategies Summary- This website has all the elements necessary to understand the prewriting process. It provides many useful links that define the all the steps that make up the prewriting process. The strategies that are provided in the website are unconscious strategies, conscious strategies, and strategies for productive reading and research. How/why useful- This website is very useful because everything is organized. It provides links for all the steps mentioned which then describe in much detail the topic that was selected. It doesn't just have a list of links; it gives a brief description of the topic to give you an idea about what the link will be talking about. How/why credible- This website is credible because it is a website for York University. It has many useful links and provides lots of graphic aids. It also provides a side bar that covers all of the information related to the prewriting process. Citation- York University. (March 10, 2009). http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/prewriting/. In Pre-Writing Strategies. Retrieved November 1, 2009, from http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/prewriting/.

This website helps you in pre-writing a paper. It tells you to jot down ideas of how you want the paper to go, with the subject, and the main ideas that you want to have in the paper. It makes you write questions down for your paper, and you should answer them, it would make your paper work really well, and read well for your reader. In this website, I have learned a lot of how you can make your paper better, before you even start writing it. It gives good examples that you can click on and see how easy this pre writing should be, and it breaks it down really easy for you to learn it quickly. This website is credible it is an educational site from the university of kansas. http://www.writing.ku.edu/~writing/guides/prewriting.shtml