successful pre-writing

In high school pre-writing skills were a very large part of graded assignments. First there were the brainstorming lists or diagrams, depending on the topic of the assignment at hand, this is the base of your paper. After writing a rugged list of ideas and concepts you'll use in the paper, you form your first rough draft; this will be the first "building blocks" from the brainstorming list.

I always nabbed a friend or parent to read over my first rough draft and help me improve upon the writing in it. After receiving some constructive criticism on my rough draft I begin making revisions, and write a second draft. The second draft should be very similar if not the same as the final paper.

Once I have read over the revised draft and am comfortable with the writing, I can begin the final paper. This may be a long process to write one paper, but it has worked through high school papers and  assignments such as book reports or research papers and the like.