Prewriting for Process Essays
Prewriting is your first step in writing a process essay. These prewriting activities will help you select a topic to write about, create a focus statement, and gather and organize your details before you begin a first draft.
Prewriting to Focus Your Ideas
Plan your writing.
Use this sheet to plan your process essay. Make a copy of this Google doc or download a Word template.
- List three things that you know how to do really well.
Take care of a hamster.
Do a cartwheel.
Make a balloon poodle.
- Which of these three processes would you like to explain in an essay?
Take care of a hamster.
- What tools and materials do you need for this process?
Hamster cage, water bottle, food bowl, wood to gnaw on, wheel for running, cedar bedding
- What steps would you list for doing this process?
First, go to buy your hamster.
Second, pick out and set up a cage.
Then, feed and water your hamster.
Next, hold your hamster to build trust.
Finally, make mazes for your hamster.
- What special thought or feeling do you have about this process?
A hamster is like a living teddy bear.