A Case Study on the Application of “Focused Freewriting” in University Writing Education

The purpose of this study is to present a case in which the freewriting was introduced in the university writing education. Freewriting is to write without stopping the pen for 10 minutes. It is a characteristic of free writing to focus on the thoughts that come to mind regardless of content or form. This study analyzes the free writing training conducted in the class from the second semester of 2022 to the first semester of 2025, and based on this, we present a focused free writing method that can be used in the university “writing” class. At the end of each semester, a survey was conducted on students to survey their satisfaction with freewriting training, with most respondents saying that they preferred focused freewriting that limited the subject area, and that 'thinking skills' and 'expressiveness' improved through freewriting. In this study, freewriting was utilized as a bridge between the pre-class and in-class stages of flipped learning. Each week, students were tasked with freely writing about the content covered in video lessons. At the end of the semester, a survey was conducted to gather students' perceptions of flipped learning. The results of this study can be used to apply focused freewriting in writing education and will help college students improve their writing skills.