Journaling about Evergreen Pag. 2-18

Chapter 1

Exploring the Writing Process

The goal of the book is to help us to became a confident writers since the work force is looking foe excellent writing and communications skills.

A. The writing Process
    Is divide in Three phases
1. Pre-writing
2  Writing
3  Revising

B. Subject, Audience and Purpose
    When we write try to choose something we know and care about it. Thinking on the audience that will  read it and the purpose.


Chapter 2

Pre-writng to generate ideas
Will show us five pre-writing techniques that will hep us to overcame with "blank-page jitters". Doesn't matter if we use hand writing or computer.

A Free Writing
    Help to warm up and generate ideas. The guidelines is to write for five, ten or fifteen minutes with no stopping. The point is to write quick with out listening our inner critic.

B  Brainstorming
    Help to generated ideas about a topic to have something to work with and choose from like word, phrases, ideas, details, examples.

C Clustering or Mapping
    Is a method to help our ideas to put them on paper.  First we write an idea or topic in the center of the paper and all the associations of ideas will be branching out from the center.

D  Asking Questions
     Another technique is to ask questions, there is two ways of doing this.
 1 The reporter's six questions. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
 2 Ask your own questions. If the reporter's six questions seem too confining.

E Keep a Journal
   A journal is private so we don't worry about grammar. The purpose is to write a least for fifteen minutes every morning or night or several times a week to help us record experiences of our everyday life on writing. Experience in detail of what was the most angered or amused moment of the day.