ENGL 1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Writing, Thesis Statement
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The moment you pick up a pen or sit down at a computer to write, you engage in a thinking process. Your writing is shaped by going through different thinking process. By breaking the process into stages, you arrange your thoughts into manageable chunks, each require different actives that, collectively build to a nal draft. You should be prepared to write papers in your academic disciplines. Your rst task is to make sure you understand the assignment. Primary and secondary sources: primary data/secondary data. Shape your writing project and develop your main idea. You must de ne what you are writing about. In this stage you might also engage in brainstorming or pre-drafting . Narrow your ideas down into manageable scope. Directed free writing: your mind will go and write spontaneously, often for a set amount of time or a set number of pages. Listing: make a list of your ideas, break signi cant ideas into sublists.
