An Analysis of the Pre-writing Strategies Employed by Chinese college students in the timed examination

Abstract

This thesis is trying to analyze the pre-writing strategies used by Chinese college students in a timed examination. The purposes of this study is to identify the possible strategies the Chinese college students claimed they used in the pre-writing stage of the timed examination, find if differences exist between the pre-writing strategies employed by skilled writers and unskilled writers, and find which strategy best facilitate writing in a timed condition.