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How Significant is the Prewriting towards the Success of Your Writing
Writing is needed in our life. The invention of writing was one of the greatest of mankind’s achievements, perhaps the very greatest. When writing began, men were able to leave records of their doing, to communicate with one another across space and time. When writing began, history and civilization began. (Paul Robert, 1958). By writing we can also express our emotion. When we write diary, poetry or even when we write a novel or a book about ourselves we can tell to the other people about our feeling.
All writing attempts to communicate some aspect of the writer’s view of the world. We write to tell our readers how we see things, what we think, what we have observed or experienced, what we feel is the truth, the task of communicating our view of the world is carried out at different levels. (Leonard A Podis, ….) For everybody who is especially in education field, everyday they do writing. There are many kinds of written text that they wrote, for example reports, papers or even books. But all those pieces are the result of the writer’s having something to say about the general topic.
Just a few numbers of people feel that writing is easy because they like to do it and they can make a good written text. Most people feel that it is difficult to do the intense and active thinking that clear writing demands. It is frightening to sit down before a blank sheet of paper and know that an hour later nothing on it may be worth keeping. It is frustrating to discover how much of a challenge it is to transfer thought and feeling from one’s head onto a sheet of paper. It is upsetting to find that an apparently simple writing subject often turns out to be complicated. But writing is not an automatic process; we will not get something for writing and we should not expect to. Competent writing results only from plain hard work-from determination, sweat, and head on battle. (John Langan, 1996)
Actually writing is not a difficult job because it still can be learned and the key is ‘hard work’. Writing is like falling in love in that we know it happens but no one is quite sure how it happens or how many children will result. Writing can be learned but there is only one way, the hard way; by doing it. You must make your own mistakes, learn what you can from them, and then plunge on to make more mistakes. (….,…..).
Another case that makes people can not write well is the preparation before they do writing. They just do it spontaneously and make it without thinking deeply. When they begin working on a paper, may student just pick up a pen and start writing the paper. This is usually not the best way to begin. In writing, as in reading, there are certain things you can do before you begin writing a paper as well as after you have produce an acceptable, well-constructed work. The steps or the stage, that most good writers go through in writing a paper is prewriting. Preparation before do writing or usually called as prewriting is a very important way to make a good essay or written text.
What is the prewriting? Pre-writing is a way of organizing your thought and beginning to put the information that you have on a paper. It is best to do the prewriting activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay. You will find it easier to write your essay if you build an outline first, especially when you are writing longer assignments. Prewriting refers to the range of activities in which the writer engages before setting fingers on the keyboard (or pen to paper). Prewriting is the process of generating and recording ideas. The main distinction between this stage and ‘planning’ is that it is the creative phase rather than the more critical phase of planning. In planning, the writer considers and rejects ideas. Prewriting activity is less critical, given to coming up with as much material as possible, some to be incorporated, some to be rejected. (…..,…..)
There are many steps that you can do in prewriting. The first step is called as brainstorming. In brainstorming, you generate ideas and details by asking as many questions as you can think of about your subject. Such question include what, when, why, how, where and who. (John Langon, 1996) You can ask yourself: What question am I going to answer in this paragraph or essay? How can I answer this question in a best way? What is the most important part of that answer? How can I make an introductory sentence from my answer? What facts or ideas that I can use to support my sentence? How can I make this paragraph interesting? Where can I find more facts on this topic? You have to think carefully what you are going to write.
Before a writer can be sure, he have to know what he want to say, before can be sure he is setting out to develop an idea that is worth the trouble, he must know what his central idea is to be (Robert Hamilton, ….) After he can find what the main idea is, he should make details that have correlation with this main idea. They should find sentences that keep to the main idea of the paragraph. The careful writers not only pay attention to details, but choose them so that they created a picture in the reader’s mind that is as memorable as the writer’s original experience. (Harry A Greene, 1982). By that way, the readers can easily follow the chronological of the writing.
When we make an essay, it is hard to write about process without knowing enough about the subject. So you should collect facts related to your paragraph or essay topic. Looking for and writing down facts will help you answer your question. You should make sure that the facts that you found are related to the exact question you are going to answer in your paragraph or essay.
The second step is free writing. When you do not know what to write about a subject, or when you start to write but then become blocked, free writing sometimes helps. In free writing, you write without stopping for ten minutes or so. You do not worry about checking your spelling or punctuation, erasing mistakes, or finding exact words. (John Langon, 1996) If you can not think of anything to say, you may write, “I can’t think of anything to say,” or if you find the exercise boring, you may write something like, “This is boring. Why are we doing this anyway?” Most student practicing free writing will not get stuck in this kind of response and will go on to produce often surprising amounts of text. Free writing will limber up your writing muscles and make you familiar with the act of writing. It is a way to break through mental blocks about writing and the fear of making errors.
The third step in doing prewriting is diagramming. It is also known as mapping. It can help you generate your ideas and details about a topic. In diagramming, you use lines, boxes, arrows, and circles to show relationship between the idea and details that come to you. (John Langon, 1996) It is very useful because it shows you the plan of the material that will be written by you. The material should be easily articulated and must avoid anything which would disturb overall fluency. So, diagramming can be used as a guidance that helps you to organize your writing in a structural way.
The fourth step and the last step is making a list. The list contains many different items as you can think or concerning your topic. Simply make a list of everything about your subject that occurs to you. (John Langon, 1996) Your list should include all three parts of a report: introduction, body, and conclusion. An introduction should capture the reader’s attention, provide any background information needed, and contains a sentence expressing the main idea of the report. In making a body list you should follow the order of your outline and use transition to guide your reader from idea to idea. And the last is writing a conclusion. In writing a conclusion, you should restate your main idea in new words, add comment that shows the importance of your subject, and round out the report by referring to an idea in the introduction without repeating it exactly, and avoid introducing a new or unrelated data.
Now we know that prewriting is very important when we make a paper or an essay. By prewriting we can create a picture in our mind about what we are going to write. By that way we can organize our words and sentences become a structural text so the readers can follow the path of our writing easily. It is very useful and very helpful because in prewriting we make it step by step. By making a layout before we write the essay it can help us to build the details in our paper. If you want to make a good paper or essay it would be better if you do the prewriting steps carefully
Writing is needed in our life. The invention of writing was one of the greatest of mankind’s achievements, perhaps the very greatest. When writing began, men were able to leave records of their doing, to communicate with one another across space and time. When writing began, history and civilization began. (Paul Robert, 1958). By writing we can also express our emotion. When we write diary, poetry or even when we write a novel or a book about ourselves we can tell to the other people about our feeling.
All writing attempts to communicate some aspect of the writer’s view of the world. We write to tell our readers how we see things, what we think, what we have observed or experienced, what we feel is the truth, the task of communicating our view of the world is carried out at different levels. (Leonard A Podis, ….) For everybody who is especially in education field, everyday they do writing. There are many kinds of written text that they wrote, for example reports, papers or even books. But all those pieces are the result of the writer’s having something to say about the general topic.
Just a few numbers of people feel that writing is easy because they like to do it and they can make a good written text. Most people feel that it is difficult to do the intense and active thinking that clear writing demands. It is frightening to sit down before a blank sheet of paper and know that an hour later nothing on it may be worth keeping. It is frustrating to discover how much of a challenge it is to transfer thought and feeling from one’s head onto a sheet of paper. It is upsetting to find that an apparently simple writing subject often turns out to be complicated. But writing is not an automatic process; we will not get something for writing and we should not expect to. Competent writing results only from plain hard work-from determination, sweat, and head on battle. (John Langan, 1996)
Actually writing is not a difficult job because it still can be learned and the key is ‘hard work’. Writing is like falling in love in that we know it happens but no one is quite sure how it happens or how many children will result. Writing can be learned but there is only one way, the hard way; by doing it. You must make your own mistakes, learn what you can from them, and then plunge on to make more mistakes. (….,…..).
Another case that makes people can not write well is the preparation before they do writing. They just do it spontaneously and make it without thinking deeply. When they begin working on a paper, may student just pick up a pen and start writing the paper. This is usually not the best way to begin. In writing, as in reading, there are certain things you can do before you begin writing a paper as well as after you have produce an acceptable, well-constructed work. The steps or the stage, that most good writers go through in writing a paper is prewriting. Preparation before do writing or usually called as prewriting is a very important way to make a good essay or written text.
What is the prewriting? Pre-writing is a way of organizing your thought and beginning to put the information that you have on a paper. It is best to do the prewriting activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay. You will find it easier to write your essay if you build an outline first, especially when you are writing longer assignments. Prewriting refers to the range of activities in which the writer engages before setting fingers on the keyboard (or pen to paper). Prewriting is the process of generating and recording ideas. The main distinction between this stage and ‘planning’ is that it is the creative phase rather than the more critical phase of planning. In planning, the writer considers and rejects ideas. Prewriting activity is less critical, given to coming up with as much material as possible, some to be incorporated, some to be rejected. (…..,…..)
There are many steps that you can do in prewriting. The first step is called as brainstorming. In brainstorming, you generate ideas and details by asking as many questions as you can think of about your subject. Such question include what, when, why, how, where and who. (John Langon, 1996) You can ask yourself: What question am I going to answer in this paragraph or essay? How can I answer this question in a best way? What is the most important part of that answer? How can I make an introductory sentence from my answer? What facts or ideas that I can use to support my sentence? How can I make this paragraph interesting? Where can I find more facts on this topic? You have to think carefully what you are going to write.
Before a writer can be sure, he have to know what he want to say, before can be sure he is setting out to develop an idea that is worth the trouble, he must know what his central idea is to be (Robert Hamilton, ….) After he can find what the main idea is, he should make details that have correlation with this main idea. They should find sentences that keep to the main idea of the paragraph. The careful writers not only pay attention to details, but choose them so that they created a picture in the reader’s mind that is as memorable as the writer’s original experience. (Harry A Greene, 1982). By that way, the readers can easily follow the chronological of the writing.
When we make an essay, it is hard to write about process without knowing enough about the subject. So you should collect facts related to your paragraph or essay topic. Looking for and writing down facts will help you answer your question. You should make sure that the facts that you found are related to the exact question you are going to answer in your paragraph or essay.
The second step is free writing. When you do not know what to write about a subject, or when you start to write but then become blocked, free writing sometimes helps. In free writing, you write without stopping for ten minutes or so. You do not worry about checking your spelling or punctuation, erasing mistakes, or finding exact words. (John Langon, 1996) If you can not think of anything to say, you may write, “I can’t think of anything to say,” or if you find the exercise boring, you may write something like, “This is boring. Why are we doing this anyway?” Most student practicing free writing will not get stuck in this kind of response and will go on to produce often surprising amounts of text. Free writing will limber up your writing muscles and make you familiar with the act of writing. It is a way to break through mental blocks about writing and the fear of making errors.
The third step in doing prewriting is diagramming. It is also known as mapping. It can help you generate your ideas and details about a topic. In diagramming, you use lines, boxes, arrows, and circles to show relationship between the idea and details that come to you. (John Langon, 1996) It is very useful because it shows you the plan of the material that will be written by you. The material should be easily articulated and must avoid anything which would disturb overall fluency. So, diagramming can be used as a guidance that helps you to organize your writing in a structural way.
The fourth step and the last step is making a list. The list contains many different items as you can think or concerning your topic. Simply make a list of everything about your subject that occurs to you. (John Langon, 1996) Your list should include all three parts of a report: introduction, body, and conclusion. An introduction should capture the reader’s attention, provide any background information needed, and contains a sentence expressing the main idea of the report. In making a body list you should follow the order of your outline and use transition to guide your reader from idea to idea. And the last is writing a conclusion. In writing a conclusion, you should restate your main idea in new words, add comment that shows the importance of your subject, and round out the report by referring to an idea in the introduction without repeating it exactly, and avoid introducing a new or unrelated data.
Now we know that prewriting is very important when we make a paper or an essay. By prewriting we can create a picture in our mind about what we are going to write. By that way we can organize our words and sentences become a structural text so the readers can follow the path of our writing easily. It is very useful and very helpful because in prewriting we make it step by step. By making a layout before we write the essay it can help us to build the details in our paper. If you want to make a good paper or essay it would be better if you do the prewriting steps carefully
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