Teaching Writing Across Curriculum

Teaching students to own their writing process

Prewriting

There are a range of prewriting strategies.  Some simply help writers generate ideas, while others help writers organize those ideas into a writing structure.

The University of Kansas Writing Center provides a description of some prewriting strategies to generating ideas:  brainstorming, freewriting, and looping and a description of some prewriting strategies which begin to offer some organization to writing: clustering and journalism's 5 w's.

Santa Barbara City College offers a description of some idea generating prewrite strategies:  freewriting, listing, clustering, and a prewriting strategy for organization: outlining.

Mind Mapping combines pictures, words, and organization, utilizing both left-brain and right-brain thinking and can be used as a prewriting strategy.

Thinking Maps can be used for structure specific types of writing such as: compare and contrast, and cause and effect.  The tree map can also serve as a graphic organizer for writers to plan their thesis, topic sentences, and supporting textual evidence.

Thinking Maps may also be creatively combined to serve as prewriting organizers.

Drafting

Mini-lessons

Using attainable sample writing models  

Revision

Editing 

Publishing

Writing Arguments Across Contents

Writing Arguments in Science
Writing Arguments in History