Constructive Planning

Back to the Drawing Board

Purposeful Prose began with an exploration of planning in writing, and I stumbled on the multi-layered process of constructive planning....

Making it Your Own: Five Tips to Create Your Personalized Writing Plan

Throughout this series on "Planning in Writing," I've laid out and updated older writing and writing planning strategies, presenting...

Wrapping Things Up: How to Resolve Conflicts

Writing, as a concept, is an abstract process in which supposed rules have so many exceptions that the most effective way to evaluate it...

Knowing How to Begin: Navigating Abstract Goals

In "Make Your Structure Sound," a crucial step in the constructive planning process, I introduced six strategies that can be used in...

Make Your Structure Sound: Six Strategies for Integrating Goals

In "The Building Blocks" I introduced the constructive writing process as it is elaborated on in "Planning in Writing" and the first two...

The Building Blocks: Understanding the Task and Setting Goals

People often consider writing to be a difficult task because there is no “correct answer” to how to write. As stated in “The Cogs of...

Putting a Name to It: Categories of Writing Planning

While not always effectively utilized, planning in writing can be a helpful tool for emerging writers and established writers regardless...

The Cogs of Writing Cognition: "Knowledge-Telling" and "Knowledge-Transforming"

Beginning expository writing presents a multitude of challenges for even the most experienced of authors in and out of academia. Blogs on...