My Past Pre-writing Skills

In the past, I have used many pre-writing skills. My favorite technique was clustering. Clustering is where you begin your planning by writing your main topic in a central circle and then branch out with related topics. For example, if I were to have My Family as my main topic some branches that I would have coming out would be vacations, forts, sport activities and travel. For visual people like myself, Clustering can be a fantastic way to begin a writing project. After creating a Cluster I would then follow up by writing a first draft. First drafts for me are a way of combing all your thoughts into paragraph form. Once on paper, it is easy to rearrange the sentences to flow more effectively. I usually end up writing multiple first drafts, due to the fact that I enjoy exploring different ways for the paper to come together. When producing my paper, I try to find someone that I can read my paper to aloud, like my husband or a friend. After further suggestions from them and getting a good grammar check, I feel much more confident in my drafts. Finally, I bring my paper together and create my writing masterpiece.