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STRATEGY
DEFINITION
PURPOSE
Free writing
Write freely without constraints in order to capture thinking and convey the writer's purpose
To refine and clarify the writer’s thoughts, spark new ideas, and/or generate content during revision and/or drafting
Generating Questions
Clarifying and developing ideas by asking questions of the draft. May be part of self-editing or peer editing
To clarify and develop ideas in a draft; used during drafting and as part of writer response
Graphic Organizer
Organizing ideas and information visually (e.g., Venn diagrams, flowcharts, cluster maps)
To provide a visual system for organizing multiple ideas, details, and/or textual support to be included in a piece of writing
Looping
After free writing, one section of a text is circled to promote elaboration or the generation of new ideas for that section. This process is repeated to further develop ideas from the newly generated segments
To refine and clarify the writer’s thoughts, spark new ideas, and/or generate new content during revision and/or drafting
Mapping
Creating a graphic organizer that serves as a visual representation of the organizational plan for a written text
To generate ideas, concepts, or key words that provide a focus and/or establish organization during the prewriting, drafting, or revision process
Marking the Draft
Interacting with the draft version of
a piece of writing by highlighting, underlining, color-coding, and annotating to indicate revision ideas
To encourage focused, reflective thinking about revising drafts
Note-taking
Making notes about ideas in response
to text or discussions; one form is the double-entry journal in which textual evidence is recorded on the left side and personal commentary about the meaning of the evidence on the other side.
To assist in organizing key textual elements and responses noted during reading in order to generate textual support that can be incorporated into a piece of writing at a later time. Note- taking is also a reading and listening strategy.
Outlining
Using a system of numerals and letters in order to identify topics and supporting details and ensure an appropriate balance of ideas.
To generate ideas, concepts, or key words that provide a focus and/or establish organization prior to writing an initial draft and/or during the revision process
Quickwrite
Writing for a short, specific amount of time in response to a prompt provided
To generate multiple ideas in a quick fashion that could be turned into longer pieces of writing at a later time (May
be considered as part of the drafting process)
RAFT
Generating a new text and/or transforming a text by identifying and manipulating its component parts of Role, Audience, Format, and Topic
To generate a new text by identifying the main elements of a text during the prewriting and drafting stages of the writing process
Rearranging
Selecting components of a text and moving them to another place within the text and/or modifying the order in which the author’s ideas are presented
To refine and clarify the writer’s thoughts during revision and/or drafting
Self-Editing/Peer Editing
Working individually or with a partner to examine a text closely in order to identify areas that might need to be corrected for grammar, punctuation, spelling
To facilitate a collaborative approach to generating ideas for and revising writing.
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