Eng 12 Writing process

Writing is challenging. It's hard work.

Success come not through epiphany, but through methodical work.

·       CRS “An introduction to Writing”

p2 “writing is a skill” “not a gift or a single flash of inspiration”

Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Joseph M. Williams

Bringing together a lot of different skills:

Academic writing

1.Understand the writing prompt.

Read the writing prompt. Read every word. Read it six times.

2.Respond to the writing prompt in a meaningful way

a.Generate a thesis statement based on the writing prompt- topic and controlling idea

b. Decide what mode of writing you will use: narrative, compare/contrast, literary

c. Generate evidence to support your thesis

d. Organize the evidence/support

e. Write a coherent, cohesive rough draft based on the conventions of multi-paragraph writing in English.

f. Proofread and edit

g. Good copy. Probably no time to write a good copy. Work will be assessed as “first-draft response”.

·       CRS “The Writing Process” pp20-47

     Outline

   Para 1 Intro

   grabber - question

   TS - 

   Body 

   Para 1 TS

              - support

              - " "

              - evidence

    Para 2 TS

             - support

             - " "

             - evidence       

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     Conc - restate Thesis

               - clincher

      

   When writing you rough draft, you can follow the outline as you go.

   Plan and write at the same time.   

   Plan, then write.

   

    Planning - prewriting

    Sentence types - simple, compound, complex