prewriting
- noun
- /ˈpriˌraɪtɪŋ/
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planificación previa
- During your prewriting stage, you're going to find something to write about, focus it, and organize your ideas.
- prewriting strategies
- prewriting activities
- prewriting technique
Examples
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Outlining endures as a prewriting technique because it helps some writers organize their thoughts.
Academic text (1990) -
By taking several simple prewriting steps, you can overcome your fear of writing.
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In fact, most of the first draft will come straight from your prewriting ideas.
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During the other two hours of weekly class time, students used a computer program that provided prewriting exercises.
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Diaries may be used as prewriting before group work to structure conversation with peers.
Academic text (2015) -
Armed with their completed prewriting, Ms. Randolf's students began their first blog posts.
Academic text (2012) -
The essential first stage of successful writing—prewriting—has been uniformly missing from my student teachers' writing lessons.
Academic text (2003) -
Before writing her essay, Susan spent an hour on prewriting to outline her main ideas.
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Teachers often encourage prewriting exercises to help students organize their thoughts before drafting.
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Effective prewriting can make the writing process smoother by clarifying the writer's goals and structure.
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Making things ready before an event or activity
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Etymology
Prewriting comes from pre- meaning 'before' and writing meaning 'to write', just like in preview or prepare. In this sense it means the planning, notes, and ideas you do before you write a text, so it is literally work done 'before writing'.