Pre$-$Writing Steps for Completing the Exercise

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Think about a conflictive experience that you have had with someone. In a sentence, state what the problem was.

Starting with this statement, begin writing for ten minutes without stopping! Keep the pen moving for ten minutes without interruption. It is not important to stay with a single Tidea$--$even with the idea you copied at first. Rather, you may ramble from idea to idea as whimsy or inspiration takes you. What is important is to keep the pen moving! Correct grammar, spelling, organization, and other writing elements are not important in this exploration task. Your purpose is simply to get the mind and pen working together$--$any ideas are suitable to write down.

At the end of ten minutes, STOP. Draw a horizontal line across your page just below the text of your writing.

$3.$ Reread the composition you have just written. Underline the most important or most interesting idea you have developed. Copy that idea below the horizontal line as a claim $($a complete sentence that alleges the truth of something$).$ Use this claim as the topic sentence with which you will begin a short paragraph of five or six sentences. Write for $15$ minutes. Then, STOP, and draw a horizontal line across your page below your