Writing Resources: Getting Started

"Prewriting strategies help writers generate ideas and figure out a paper’s provisional structure; doing both of these things before you start writing a draft can help save you significant time and energy."

This page includes a few tips on how to get the most out of a reading when preparing to write.

At GW, we strongly believe that students are emergent scholars. By this we mean that we see our student-colleagues as writers capable of producing ideas and insights that are worth reading because they are both original and situated in existing scholarship.

A staff of well-trained peer consultants is ready to help with any stage of the writing process -- including brainstorming a topic.