Use of Innovative Prewriting Techniques in Enhancing the Writing Performance and Attitude of Second Year Information Technology Students

Developing positive attitude towards writing is one of the roles of educators since writing plays a very important role in the academic and future professional success of students. Purposively, this study determined the effectiveness of the different interactive prewriting techniques in enhancing the writing performance of Filipino college students in one campus of a public higher educational institution in Region 02, Philippines. The research employed single group pre-test-post-test experimental design. The participants of the study were selected using purposive sampling method. Three phases of data gathering procedure was employed namely pre-treatment, treatment and post-treatment. Scores in the writing performance test and writing attitude inventory test were compared and significant differences were determined using dependent sample t-test. Results of the study unveils that post-test scores are higher than the pre-test scores of the participants, signifying that there is an improvement on the writing performance and attitudes of the students in writing composition. This implies that the different interactive pre-writing techniques helped the students to manifest better performance and attitude towards writing. Meanwhile, the participants also generally assessed the different prewriting techniques very interesting. This study also presents 19 prewriting strategies which will help facilitate the teaching writing as a fruitful and meaningful encounter among the students where the emphasis is a non-threatening and writing anxiety-free learning environment.

Keywords – prewriting techniques, process approach, writing performance, college classroom