Jago Chapter 5

Free writing is one of the most crucial and useful tools students can use as writers. While there are some key elements that can not be seen in free writing, it is a great place to start for the student who is struggling to get started. Often free writing can be used as brainstorming method or as a very very rough draft. If free writing is done in the classroom, there will be more time for the students to be working on other parts of their papers when they are at home. Since they already have a good amount of writing done, they will probably feel better about where the are with their work and be less intimidated by the project as a whole. For this reason, free writing as Jago suggests is key to helping students when they are concentrating on writing their papers. It is a core element that is often skipped or completely overlooked. Students especially seem to disregard free-writing