Iman Warrick WRA

Make a guideline.

- find your subject

-define your purpose

Don't use signal words such as

-report

-summarized

-dscuss

-compare and contrast

consider your audience

-ask who are your readers

-what are the readers expectations

Write down your ideas

-keep a journal

-observe your surroundings

-free writing

-brainstorming

-clustering

Major components of literacy

-invention

-arrangement

-revision

-style

-delivery

Concieve a focus

-a focus will not leep fullu formed into your head

checklist

-how well does the subject of your statement capture the subject of your paper?

-what claim does your statement makes?

schemes for organizing essays

-spatial

-chronological

-general to specific

-specific to general

Unity and Coherence

-do the deas follow a clear sequence

-are the oartsof the essay logically connected

starting to draft

-read over what you've already written

skipping the open and starting in the middle

-start writting the part that's easiest for you

take a break after finishing the draft

ask someone to read and react to your draft

-peer review

-writing center

type a handwritten draft

-outline your draft

revising on word processor

-save your work every five to tn minutes

-after doing any major work on a project save a backup of the file

-save each draft under its on file name

Checklist for revision

-purpose

-focus

-structure

revising strategies for editing

-take a break

-read the draft slowly

-read as if you are encountering the draft

editing on your computer

-dont use spelling or grammer check

-use double space paper copy

-read your work to make sure its error free

-read a printed copy

-read the paper aloud

-ignore content

-place a ruler under each line as you read it

Commenting on others writing

-be sure that you know what the writer is saying

-adress only your most significant concerns

-you are the reader, not the writer

-phrase your comments carefully

Acheiving paragraph coherence

-paragraph organization

-parallism

anything shorter than 100-150 words may feel incomplete

an idea may be developed by one extended or several specifc examples

three basic important guidelines to follow

-leave on space after words

-leave one space after punctuation except dashes and hyphens