Chapter 13. Essentials_Video_Organizing

13.1 Lesson 13 Essentials Video: Organizing

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Lesson 13 Essentials Video: Organizing

Watch the video below to see how students like you organize their preliminary writing according to patterns.

Transcript

Students in order of appearance: Cara, Hannah, Kendal, Hyesu, Nicole, Ansel, Yadirys, Nanaissa

Exercise: Integrate the video

Question

Write a substantial paragraph or two, with a topic sentence or mini-thesis, through which you respond to the students in this video as you form your own approaches organizing your preliminary writing. You might begin by identifying the moments that stand out to you the most. Which student videos seem to make the most sense to you? With whom do you agree? Disagree? What patterns do you find among the student sound bites? Which ideas were the most instructive or helpful to you? What surprised you? How have your own ideas about organizing come into focus through the videos?
Nicole describes her transition from brainstorming to organizing, saying that her “approach to writing a college assignment paper is lots of free writing. A lot of free writing. Literally, I dump my thoughts onto the page. I don’t worry about grammar, I don’t worry about mechanics, I don’t worry about logic, clarity, comprehension, nothing. I do a lot, a lot of free writing and then I go back to the free writing and organize and do somewhat of a “post-outline” to my free writing. That kind of sets up the outline for where I’m going to take it from there. And that’s how I organize.” If you selected a different method of brainstorming (or if you decide to organize and then brainstorm), you may choose a different approach to organizing your early work. Whatever approach works best for you, don’t forget to keep your audience, topic, and purpose clearly in mind as you develop your strategy.