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Pre-writing Facts

Guide to Mapping
Developed by English Works! from materials from the Gallaudet University English Department

Mapping is a process of reorganizing and rearranging (moving) the most important ideas and information from your reading or textbook and converting it into a diagram with your own words to help you understand and remember what you read.

Because mapping makes it easier to organize and remember what you have read, mapping is a useful studying technique. Moreover, mapping can help you organize your own writing when used as a pre-writing technique.

Pre-writing Techniques Part 1