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Planning

• Planning Your Paper
  This resource is designed to help students create a plan for their essay.
• The Writing Process
  Hosted by MIT, this site reviews the four stages of writing: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
• Frankfurt International School: The Writing Process--Prewriting
  This webpage includes general information on the first stage of the writing process, including determing the topic or theme, purpose, genre, and audience of your writing.
• Understanding your Purpose
  The purpose of writing is to communicate to a particular audience. This resource from Colorado State University will help you understand your purpose so that you can write more effectively.
• Focusing Your Writing
  Are you having trouble narrowing your topic? This resource is designed to help you get your topic into focus.
• The OWL at Purdue: Invention
  This resource focuses on prewriting and includes processes, strategies, and questions to help you begin to write.
• The OWL at Purdue: Writer’s Anxiety/Writer’s Block
  This resource includes tips for overcoming writer's block and exercises to help get you writing.