COLLABORATIVE WORK IN THE PREWRITING STAGE

Abstract

This paper explores the notion of collaborative work in the prewriting stage. Several collaborative prewriting activities are presented to encourage students to optimize their peers' help in obtaining ideas to write. Those activities will ultimately help students get interesting ideas to write and develop them into dynamic writing.

Keywords

• collaborative work
• prewriting
• dynamic writing
• brainstorming
• chained information
• clustering
• trategic questioning
• information gathering
• buddy journals