Comm11/12 Essay grabber techniques

REVIEW WRITING PROCESS

·       Evergreen Chapter 1   Part A “The Writing Process”

                                      Part B “Subject, Audience and Purpose

·       Evergreen Chapter 2   Part A “Freewriting”

                                      Part B “Brainstorming”

                                      Part C “Clustering”

                                      Part D “Asking Questions”

                                      Part E “Keeping a Journal”

·       Teach “” as part of brainstorming

·       Evergreen Chapter 3    Part A “Defining and Looking at the                                                                         Paragraph”

·       Part B “Narrowing the Topic and Writing the Topic Sentence”

·       Grabbers – easy possibilities for grabbers

          -general to specific statement

          -short anecdote, personal story

          -historical reference

          -ask a question (answered by thesis statement)

-fact or statistic

-relevant quotation by famous person

-relevant idiom from any language

·       Evergreen  Chapter 3   Part C “Generating Ideas for the Body”

                                                Part D “Selecting and Dropping Ideas”

Part E “Arranging Ideas in a Plan or a Outline”

·       Evergreen  Chapter 3   Part F “Writing and Revising the Paragraph”

·       Evergreen  Chapter 4   Part B “Coherence Through Related Sentences”

Synonyms- thesaurus, word a day, yourdictionary.com, wheel of fortune, crosswords

                                                      

·       “Checklist: The Process of Writing Basic Paragraphs”, p.c.