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Freewriting

This post was originally added to Learnhigher on: 9th Jan, 2012
Activity time: 20 minutes
Types of media: Handout/s, Webpage, Helpsheet, Word document
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Unknown Author, (Unknown affiliation)
Description
This resource encourages students to write on a given topic for a set amount of time. It is is designed to test information recall ability as well as help students improve their confidence in their writing ability.
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Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0

(This resource can be freely repurposed and reused)

Categories
Academic Writing
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Classroom activity
Date
This information/resource was last updated in January 2012.

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This activity is designed to encourage students to focus their thinking by writing for a specified amount of time.

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