Logical Organization

• Prewriting, also known as preliminary activity, is where you decide what topic to write about.
• The topic should not be too broad nor too narrow.
• It must be something that you have sufficient knowledge about to explain or justify the details in it.
• If it is too broad, you may not be able to justify or cover all aspects or areas of the topic.
• If it is too narrow, you may not be able to find enough information about the topic.
• Prewriting, also known as preliminary activity, is where you consider who the reader is.
• If you know who the reader is, you will be guided as to the kinds of words and the tone of language you will use in your writing.
• Prewriting or Brainstorming Techniques include Listing, Clustering, and Freewriting.
• Listing is used to generate a lot of information and is short time especially when you start with topics that are very broad and you want to narrow them.
• In the process of listing, jot down all the possible terms that come out from your mind regarding the general topic that you are working on.
• Group all the items or terms that are related to one another and label each group.
• Write a sentence about the labeled group of ideas.
• Clustering, also known as mind mapping or idea mapping, allows you to explore the relationship among the ideas.
• In the process of clustering, put the subject in the center of a page, circle or underline it, and write new ideas on the page surrounding the central idea, linking the new ideas to the central circle with lines.
• Freewriting is a process of generating a lot of information non-stop within a specific period.
• In freewriting, you can write as many ideas as you want nonstop for the specified period without minding the grammar and spelling until you do not have anything else to write.
• The Journalists' Questions is the traditional way of gathering information about certain topics- the asking of who, what, where, when, how, and why questions.
• Research, also known as searching for more details stage, is where you search for more information to support your chosen topic but only if needed.
• Drafting, also known as writing stage, is where you put the information you have researched and clustered and labeled into your own words in sentences or paragraph form without minding too much on grammar and spelling.
• Sharing and Revising, also known as making it better stage, is where you share your output with others and make changes based on their feedback.