| Prewriting describes the brainstorming and organizing that students do
before writing a story. It helps them focus on the topic at hand, slowly
building enough information to write a complete story -- and it assures
that the story or theme they write will be well organized.
Once your students have a topic, they write it in the center of a
web. Then they list subtopics (or, in a paper such as a theme, section
headings) in bubbles that grow from the main topic. Each subtopic can
have its own subtopics, which can also have subtopics, etc.
When your students are finished brainstorming, they can switch to
Inspiration's Outline view to elaborate ideas in Notes text. Finally,
they develop their outline into a complete essay.
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 TYPES OF WEBS
Literary webs
help students understand a story or novel in terms of both the whole and
its parts.
Character
webs represent one of the ways in which visual learning can support
comprehension in the reading process.
Comparison
is one of the most basic and powerful forms of analysis in any
discipline.
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