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Study Guides index of guidesSeven stages of
writing assignments
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Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
German 1724 - 1804

  1. Develop your topic
  2. Identify your audience
  3. Research
  4. Organize and prewrite  
  5. Draft/write
  6. Revise
  7. Proofread


Flash exercise contributed by Victova Aksamit, Kari Tate, Julianna To, and Dr. Brad Hokanson, Interactive Media (DHA 4384) School of Design, University of Minnesota.

Rough drafts (Stage 3)

Free writing:

Elbow,  Peter, Writing Without Teachers, Oxford University Press, 1975 (on Free writing)

Brainstorming:

JPB Creative, The Step-by-Step Guide to Brainstorming, http://www.jpb.com/creative/brainstorming.html, November 15, 2000.

Mind mapping: 

Landsberger, Joe, Concept- or mind-mapping for learning, http://www.studygs.net/mapping.htm, November 16, 2000

Outlines:

Dr. Bruce R. Thompson, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Creating An Outline, http://www.msoe.edu/~thompson/outlines.htm, November 16, 2000.

Price, Jonathan, Outlining Goes Electronic,  Ablex, 1999, as seen at The Communication Circle, http://www.theprices.com/3bookOGE.htm, November 16, 2000.

Price, Jonathan, How Electronic Outlining Can Help You Create Online Materials, as seen at The Communication Circle,, http://www.theprices.com/4artTW5.htm, November 16, 2000.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab, Developing an Outline, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html, November 16, 2000.



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