Invention Through the Writing Process

            Amy Hodges’ piece really spoke to me in terms of giving my students a fresh way to begin inventing and generating ideas for the essay that is an upcoming project for them.  Many of the students expressed having a blockage about where to begin and what they should be writing about.  I really enjoyed the entire section titled, “Inventing and Generating Drafts.”   I would routinely just discuss with the students various means of brainstorming and how to use a freewrite as starting point.  This reading really hits home and I now have more ammo to give my students to put in their success gun.  I intend to incorporate this excerpt into my current lessons discussing means of generating ideas