1. I don't recommend any because I don't use any myself, especially when it comes to formal writing. My preference is to write whatever comes to mind and then sort it out later. I certainly teach a variety of methods for my students to choose from, because obviously everyone is different.G-Man wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2019 4:46 pm Reading update for The Bedford Handbook.
The questions I posted on Facebook:
To my educator friends at all levels:
1) Which pre-writing exercises (listing, freewriting, clustering, etc.) do you recommend most to students and which ones do you think yield the best results?
2) Do you tell students to revise and edit while they write or after they finish a draft?
3) Should college freshmen already know how to write a competent essay or term paper?
4) Do you feel that it is ever too late for a student to learn how to write according to the standards these kinds of guidebooks consider proper?
2. If my students revise at all, in any capacity, at any time, I'm thrilled.
3. Yes. I wavered for a moment after an instinctive, resounding "Yes," but I'll not waver further: Writing a competent essay is not hard. It just isn't. Anybody going to college, no matter what the program, should be able to construct a basic written essay if physically able.
4. No.