Pre-Writing Strategies to Help You Organize Your Thoughts

Pre-writing is a way of organizing your thoughts and beginning to put the information you have on paper. It is best to do a pre-writing activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay.  
Basic Pre-writing Strategies 

• You should use pre-writing to
  • think more clearly
  • see a start to your paper
  • keep track of your ideas
  • practice expressing yourself in writing

• Develop paper in pre-writing strategies  

Jolt list

Brainstorm

Free Writing

• Visualize/Organize Major Categories in pre-writing strategies

Outline

Mapping

Tree Diagram