Pre-Writing Past Use

       Pre-writing skills are very useful tools to use for any essay,narrative, or story. It can help out with identifying main goals you wish to accomplish and the best ways to use your writing to accomplish the task.

      Every year at my work we have to submit evaluations on ourselves for our performance. I usually start by outlining topics I could use in the report to make my performance look strong against my peers. I would take the most pertinent subjects and try to elaborate the most on them. This helps guide me to make my best parts stand out for my boss. It is easy to get lost in the details and stray from topic, so using a framework is a very apt way of writing. Especially if you are unfamiliar with the topic at hand and want to make sure you have enough thoughts to express. This outline really help me use my time productively.

      An outline really help me use my time productively. I had a lot of success with using it on topics I wasn't very strong at writing. Even though I prefer just thinking aloud with ideas for stories and narratives I found for research papers or objective pieces that handwriting out goals and your blue print for the paper helped immensely.