Eng 12 How to write a answer

Process for writing - step by step how to approach academic writing, school writing
- create something that a teacher will recognize

PREWRITING
1.Analyze the topic - evaluate the question
What is the teacher asking me to do?
What am I writing about?
What's the topic?
What format should it be?

"Why is the poem called 'The Road not Taken'?
paragraph, short answer - 150w

"What's the poem about?" off-topic
"What's the message of the poem?" off-topic

2. Generate some ideas - good interesting ideas
3-4 points

Brainstorming - group ideas
Mindmap - visual representation of information
Listing - make list of key words and ideas
Freewrite - effective but time-consuming 

Getting ideas going, getting creative juices flowing
Priming the pump

Choose a few quotations to use.
"wanted wear"
"with a sigh"
"years and years hence"

3. Organize the ideas
Time- linear flow of time, chronology, Chronos
Space - physical, top to bottom, side to side, zoom in/out
Importance - most important point last

WRITING
4. Write sentences, rough copy
Topic sentence - addresses the question
"Why is the poem called 'The Road not Taken'?
mirror the vocab in the question, use synonyms

TS The poem is called "The Road Not Taken' for three reasons.
ROUGH TS Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken' is about how regretting our decisions in life is natural. He called the poem this because he wanted to emphasize how common this experience is.

GRABBER - attention getting - super creative!!!

          1.General to specific

We all have to make choices in our life. However, how do we know if they are the right choices. The poem ....

          2. Fact or statistic

58%

2/3

73% of all people are dissatisfied with the decisions they made when they were young.

          3. Anecdote -short personal story

          4. Historical

          5. Question?

          6. Adage, idiom, expression

The grass is greener on the other side.

          7. Famous quotation from famous person

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” John Greenleaf Whittier

STANDARD FORMAT
Topic Sent
1. Point 1
2. Point 2
3. Point 3
Concluding Sentence

ALTERNATIVE FORMAT
1. Point 1
2. Point 2
3. Point 3
Topic Sent

5. Edit, proofread, corrections

6. Pass-in the rough copy. You don't have time to make a good copy.


THESIS STATEMENT - essays
TOPIC SENTENCE- paragraph