What Is Freewriting?

• Freewriting is a way of creating ideas for a paper by writing continuously about a topic -- without worrying about grammar, spelling, or organization.

Here’s an ExampleI want the students to see the value of freewriting. Key will be to choose a topic that is both broad enough and interesting enough -- interesting enough because I don’t want people saying they can’t think of anything to say, and broad enough so that they can go in many directions. Many students will stress out as they did last semester. Some way to make it fun? Thirty things I hate about Philadelphia. Thirty things I love about Philadelphia.

You Can Also Just Create a List

• Value of freewriting.• Topic must be broad enough to generate ideas.• Must be interesting too.• Fight writer’s block: something fun and

interesting.• 30 things I love about Philly, 30 things I hate (too

broad).

Let’s Make Something Out of the FreewritingYour assignment is to write a two-page, typed,

double-spaced essay in which you outline a four-year plan for Mayor John Street. The content for this paper can be humorous, but must be well-organized.

To write this assignment, I want you to first use the freewriting drafting technique. YOU MUST HAND IN YOUR FREEWRITING DRAFT WITH YOUR FINAL PAPER.

Clustering Is Another Drafting Technique

Help Class Generate Ideas

Choose Broad Topic SoPeople Will Likely Have

Something to Say

Choose Interesting/ControversialTopic

Topics: Something about Phila., 30 Things I Would Change about City, Agenda for

Mayor Street.

Assignment: Use an Idea-Generating Pre-drafting Technique.Then write an outline for an agenda for John Street.

Choose Topic that Lends Itself

to a Developed Argument/Statement

Clustering Is Another Drafting Technique

Township seeksgrant for greenway trail

Partnershipwith two

adjacent munic.

Consistent withDev. Plan

Consistent withDELEP, DVRPC,

and GrowingGreener

Support fromGroups

Reuse of industrialproperty

Consistentwith Brownfields

programs Both state andfederal

Junior HighEnv. Club

Seniors’ GardenClub

NativePlants

Garden

Clustering Is Another Drafting Technique

Goal is to convince Walsh of long-term value of the deal

Will require considerable capital investment

Benefit to company:With 20% Vol. Discount800 x $2000=1,600,000800 x $4480=3,584,000total sales=$5,184,000

Tight deadline of nine months.

Cite past large contracts that company was able to fulfill.

Obvious Benefit:Students will be likely sales prospects themselves.