Planned Outcomes

              In this study I wanted to better understand the learning needs of my Composition 101

         students as they pertain to prewriting and planning during the writing process. I also 

        wanted to help students become more aware of their own strengths and weaknesses as  

        readers and writers and then set goals for themselves in these areas. 

     I anticipated that students would have marked improvement in their organization and

idea development as a result of the use of prewriting strategies. Students would become

more aware of their own thinking and the strengths and weaknesses of their strategic

knowledge. As a result of this new metacognitive awareness, students would feel more

prepared for future writing and learning experiences at the university.

     Students did improve in idea development and organization in their graphic organizers

and in their compositions. To a lesser degree, students became more metacognitively

aware of their strengths and their weaknesses of their strategic knowledge.