emPOWERED Jump Starts for Writers
16 Strategies for Jump-Starting Your Writing!
Getting started is often the hardest part of writing. Now emPOWERED Jump Starts for Writers gives you 16 time-tested strategies for breaking through that initial resistance. These strategies help to generate and organize ideas so you'll be ready to start writing. Included are keys to using the following:
- purpose statements
- reader information
- lists
- clusters
- T-bar & Venn diagrams
- the 5 W's & H chart
- freewriting
- time lines
- flowcharts
- the Inverted Pyramid
- the Pyramid of Benefits
- chat with colleagues
- index cards or sticky notes
- categories
- the problem/solution web
- the cause/effect organizer
This quick guide also includes mini-indexes with cross-references to our award-winning handbook, Write for Business, as well as to Writing Effective E-Mail.
Turn to this Job Aide whenever you're facing a new writing task. With emPOWERED Jump Starts for Writers, you'll never have to worry again about how to get started.