Module 1 — Effective
writing: Strategies
and principles
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Step 1: Prewriting
"Writing is a lot like life itself. You can start with a plan and try to follow it, or you can wing it and deal with the consequences." Joe Kraynak, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office 97, QUE, Indianapolis, 1998. |
Prewriting is about generating material or ideas or both. Whether gathering information you have inside your head or researching outside sources, you have to start somewhere. Many of us, confronted with a daunting writing task, will suffer from what is known as writer's block.
