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Planning a Piece of Writing

| Audience | Purpose | Topic Development | Thesis Statements | Writer's Block | Outlines |

Audience

• Audience from Colorado State

• Audience Analysis

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Purpose

• The Forest of Rhetoric -- Silva Rhetoricae: a Guide to terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric by Dr. Gideon Burton of BYU (check out the Rhetorical Situation, Audience, etc. under Trees)

• Purpose from Colorado State

• Understanding Writing: the Rhetorical Situation. A Power Point Presentation by Jennifer Liethen Kunka from the Purdue OWL

• Writing with a Sense of Purpose from Capital Community College

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Topic Development (Invention)

• Clustering by Melanie Dawson and Joe Essid from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Exploring Ideas through "Cubing" by Melanie Dawson from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Freewriting: a Way Around Writer's Block from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process. A Power Point presentation by Jennifer Liethen Kunka from the Purdue OWL

• Getting Started: Clustering Ideas from Capital Community College

• Getting Started: Freewriting from Capital Community College

• Getting Started on a Paper from Amherst College

• Getting Started with Writing from Ferris State University

• Keeping a Prewriting Journal by Amy Addison from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Inventing and Developing Ideas from the Writing Center at Texas State University (link opens to .pdf file)

• Mind Mapping FAQ

• Planning (Invention) from the Purdue OWL

• Planning (Invention): Thought Starters (Asking the Right Questions) from the Purdue OWL

• Planning (Invention): When You Start to Write from the Purdue OWL

• Preparing to Write an Introduction from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Prewriting Strategies from the Writing Center at the University of Kansas

• Writing Instruction -- Getting Started from Southwest Texas

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Thesis Statements

• Developing a Thesis Statement from Ashland University

• Developing a Thesis Statement from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process. A Power Point presentation by Jennifer Liethen Kunka from the Purdue OWL

• Focus from Colorado State

• Introductions and Thesis Statements from Hamilton College (link opens to .pdf file)

• The Thesis Statement from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Thesis Statements from Arizona State University

• Thesis Statements from the Texas State University's Writing Center (link opens to .pfd file)

• Thesis Statements from the Writing Center at the University of Kansas

• Thesis vs, Purpose Statements from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Writer's Block

• Coping with Writing Anxiety from the Purdue OWL

• Fighting Writer's Block from the Amherst College Writing Center

• Freewriting: a Way Around Writer's Block from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Overcoming Writer's Block from LEO at St. Cloud State

• Overcoming Writer's Block from the Purdue OWL

• The Writer's Block

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Developing Outlines

• Developing an Outline from the Purdue OWL

• Organizing the Structure of Your Essay from the Writing Center at Texas State University (link opens to .pdf file)

• Outlines from the Writing Center at the University of Kansas

• Sample Outline from the Purdue OWL

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