Prewriting Techniques

So this week we had to choose two prewriting techniques and use them. I've done this before in my College Composition I for Healthcare Professionals class, so it wasn't anything new, other than a new topic to write about. I'm writing my research paper for Comp II on the consumption of raw milk. Pretty fascinating stuff isn't it? lol It is interesting, believe it or not. Anyway, I used freewriting, which I'm not very good at, for one of the prewriting techniques. I'm not very good at freewriting because I have this nagging little weasel in my head that makes me go back and correct mistakes as soon as I make them or when I'm rereading for the tenth time to correct mistakes...not something you're suppose to do in freewriting. I did much better with bubbling. I don't think it was called that in Comp I though...I think it was called mind mapping or something like that, or I imagined it. I came up with some fairly good ideas with bubbling.

I normally work on my own without any specific formula for writing. I'm not one to fit into a structured mold, perhaps why I hate outlines so much. I like to read my research thoroughly, then just dive right in and write my paper. It usually works for me. I don't remember how I used to write all those essays in my high school college prep English classes. Lord knows I'm getting too old to remember that far back lol. I've always loved to write though. I've missed it these last few years when I didn't have the time to write. Now that I'm in college, I have to write, so that makes me happy to a certain extent. Like I said, I don't fit into structured molds, which makes writing for college a bit more challenging for me. I think the absolute worst paper I had to write was in a previous class where the topic and references were already chosen for me. I thought I would go mad writing that paper!