Unit Ii: Preparing To Write/Writing Activity

Unit II: Preparing to Write/Writing Activity
1.What causes writer’s block?
-When they are confronted with a blank sheet of paper or a blank computer screen they fear that they will not be able tothink or find anything to say.

2.How does prewriting protect a writer against writer’s block?
-It protects them from getting blocked because when you are prewriting your purpose is to generateideas, not to judge them. There is nothing that can possibly be wrong so they don’t get the pressure of writing and would not block.

3.What is the main goal of prewriting?
-The main goal is to helppeople get ideas on paper, by writing anything that comes in to your mind, to put down every thought on your topic.

4.What is brainstorming?
-Brainstorming is a listing technique, where you writeeverything that comes in to your mind on your topic. The purpose is to generate ideas.

5.What is freewriting?
-Freewriting is a nonstop writing on a topic for a set of time. The point is that yourflow of words never ceases, your pen never stops even if you don’t know what else to write because if that happens you keep on writing your last thought again and again until a new thought replacesit.

6.What is “invisible writing”?
-Is a freewriting computer technique where you put in a blank page the words “Invisible Writing” and then turn off the monitor. Then you start writing for a coupleof minutes without worrying about spelling errors.

7.What is clustering?
-Clustering is a technique designed to boost your creativity by stimulating both hemispheres of the brain. The lefthemisphere is used for logical task that move in 1-2-3- order. And the right brain specializes in tasks involving visual images and intuition, so clustering involves both listing and drawing. It beginswith your topic circled and from there map out associations.

8.Which technique is designed to use both the right and left sides of the brain?
-Clustering is the technique that is designed to use...