A写作前准备1(Prewriting)----Brainstorming

Brainstorming

当你看到题目时，将实时联想到的意念写下，首先可从一个字（a word），一个短语（a phrase）开始，然后让自己的思想随意走，联想到什么便写什么，无须讲求逻辑，务求尽快在十数分钟或指定时间内列出字词表。跟着看看那些字词与题目相关，然后将它们组合成有用资料。For example：

The following is an example of a brainstorm. The writer has marked with an asterisk(*) the ideas she could use to write a physical description of her mother.   

Practice：

As a group, choose one or two of the following topics to brainstorm and work quickly for fifteen minutes. After you have finished, arrange your ideas in groups on your own. Then compare and contrast your groups with those of your classmates/friends. You will notice that different writers will explore different aspects of the topic.

Topics:

Cloze Exercise (1)

写作填充练习 Please complete the following cloze exercise:

(word list: 21 words)

(A)   

Research shows that by ____ computers, students become better problem solvers and better communicators. Over ____ network, using e-mail and sharing files, students have ____ chance to collaborate and work together with other classmates, peers, and teachers. Networking electronically can help learners create, analyze, and produce information and ideas more easily and efficiently. Networking people “puts and inspiring, enticing, and usable set of tools within reach of ____ mass of computer users, empowering them to ____ beyond simply processing information to presuppose, design, publish, and express” (Mello, 1996). Through this increased electronic access to the world around them, students' social ____ and confidence ____. ____ frees them from the limitations of traditional writing tools that often inhibit and restrict writing processes. Learning is then ____ from a traditional passive-listening exercise to ____ experience of discovery, exploration, and excitement. Students can begin to ____ their full potential when they are ____ to contribute and collaborate as ____ team to ____ their writing tasks more effectively.

(B)   

Electronic mail is a relatively new ____of communication that isexperiencing exploding growth in theU.S.and around the____. E-mail messages can be ____ across different kinds of networks, both ____ and globally. Aside from the Internet, there are thousands of local area ____ and wide area networks that send millions more messages daily across various kinds of transmission ____. Electronic mail over the ____, the world's largest computer network, is experiencing exploding growth daily.