Good Writing A good writing requires thinking. It involves revision. It expresses ideas clearly. It directed toward an audience. It achieves a purpose. It requires practice. Five Steps Generate ideas: coming un with ideas that explain and support your topic. Plan and organize your ideas: deciding what ideas to include and in what order to place them. Write the first draft: puttng your ideas in sentence, paragraph, and essay form. Revise: rewriting, rearrange your ideas, deleting some ideas, addng others. Proofread: looking for errors in typing, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Generating Ideas Freewtiting-brainstorm-branching and questioning Sorting usable ideas Using an idea map to organize your idea: decide the purpose(termination) and important factors(stops) Consider you audience all the time. Reading Read actively-understanding (idea map of the author)-read critically-built vocabulary Start your writing from wrting about a reading. Paragraph Topic sentence (effective) -details (focus, help to digest) Developing and Arrange Details Relavant and sufficient Overview your brain to find details Types of details: examples, facts, statistics, reasons, descriptions, steps and procedures. Arrangement: time sequence (narration), spatial arrangement and least to most arrangement. Specific, vivid words,avoid vague words. Fun-thrilling, ralaxing,enjoyable, pleasurable Dark-hidden in gray-green shadows Exerienced-five years in the job Tree-red maple Left quickly-stormed out Describe the senses in mental pictures with facts, names and adjectives to convey details. Transitional words: first, in the beginning, during, next, after that, then, later, as I waited, following, afterward, finally, at last Narration Select a topic-generate ideas-organize events in a narrative sequence-use transitions to connect your ideas Effictive topic sentence: consider your audience and purpose How much explantion and which definitions to include about each event. How much background information to include. Description Donminant impression: identifies topic and indicate feelings. Sensory details: touch, smell, taste, sound, sight Process: sxplain processes and procedures How to How it works Definition, needed equipment, pitfalls and potential problems Use a consistent point of view. Example List-select 2-4 examples to support the topic sentence. Illustrate, specific and vivid, accurately describing an incident or situation, sufficient number, draw the connection for you readers between the examples and your main point. Transitions: for example, for instance, such as, in particular, to illustrate, an example is, when, also, another instance of…occurs when… Classification Presenting information about the topic by organizing its parts into categories. Deciding on what basis to classify information. Emphysized factors decide –subgroups-explain each subgroup-consider exceptions