Chapter 6 Plan
5. Brainstorm catchy subtitles and order them according to how you want to present information in your paper. When you have finished writing your draft, keep your subtitles or remove them and insert sentences that connect the different stories of your essay.
8. Do a brainstorming map. Discuss with a writing partner the most interesting clusters that emerge on your map and circle them. Then think of a sentence that states the central topic or focus of each cluster. Under each sentence list as many related details as you can think of. Then arrange the sentences according to the order you want them to appear in your paper.
20. Write an unruly draft and go through it paragraph by paragraph, jotting a sentence or two in the margins of the paper and summing up what each paragraph says. Read through your marginalia and see what points are repeated and rephrased in the paper. Use these as your major points for planning your paper.
21. have an outlining fest. Choose and essay or story to read together as a class, and then have each class member draw up an outline for it, being as creative as he or she wishes. You may decide to use the outlining ideas in this chapter. Gather all the outlines into a class binder for ideas on planning future essays.
Murray, Donald. M. Write to Learn. Orlando: Harcourt Brace College, 1998.
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