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Process 1

Freewriting Activities The following activities are designed to help you generate ideas for your Reference Source Article Comparison paper. Please complete these activities before (or while) you draft your paper. 

1. Read for examples and ideas. Read one of the essays listed on Process 1 Readings. While you read, look for points of structure. What is interesting in the way that the writer paints events and details of people's apprearance?  The My Antonia selection is a good example of description.  Do you agee that this writer make wise use of detail?
2. Make a "Goodyear blimp" brainstorm.  Decide whether you are going to concentrate upon the scene, people, or actions.  Once you have established whether this is a paper about something that happened, someone who impressed you, or somewhere you recall, then make an organizational graph, chart or model.  The blimp works as well as any.
3. Send a freewrite email message. Once you've selected a memory and and have a rough set of ideas or some kind of an outline or zero draft, send a message to the class at WEBCT, in which you tell us: how you decided on what to write and how you think you'll organize it as noted above..

After completing the above activities, draft your essay!