Exercise 1

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Exercise 1

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Prewriting involves various techniques to capture your thoughts and put them on paper or on a computer screen. Some of the most effective techniques are brainstorming, clustering, and freewriting. Using the following list of general topics, choose one or two, narrowing your topic based on the three criteria above. Now, develop this topic using one or more of the prewriting techniques to come up with some supporting ideas.

College life
money
sports
television
family
raising children
weather

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