2. The first step is to decide what to include in your writing-brainstorm.
3. Think about who will be reading your work.
4. Make a list of all the things you want to mention: Organize your main points into paragraphs.
5. Make a fist draft- Say a bit more about this topic.
6. Take time to review what you've written: Is your main argument clear?
7. Remember to proofread your essay (for spelling mistakes).
Pre-Writing Strategies
source: http://aaweb.gallaudet.edu/CLAST/Tutorial_and_Instructional_Programs/English_Works/Writing/Prewriting_Writing_and_Revising.htmlPre-writing is a way of organizing your thoughts and beginning to put the information you have on paper. It is best to do a pre-writing activity before you actually begin writing your paper or essay.
You should use prewriting to... | think more clearly |
see a start of your paper | |
keep track of your ideas | |
practice expressing yourself in writing |
Mapping
Mapping is a process of reorganizing and rearranging (moving) the most important ideas and information from your reading or textbook and converting it into a diagram with your own words to help you understand and remember what you read.Because mapping makes it easier to organize and remember what you have read, mapping is a useful studying technique. Moreover, mapping can help you organize your own writing when used as a pre-writing technique.
Using Questions
As a Pre-Writing and Organizational Technique
Prewriting by questioning is a five-step process which allows you to:- recognize the richness and diversity of your subject (exploration);
- gather as much information as possible about this aspect (discovery);
- make some sense out of the body of information you've assembled (classification);
- determine what you want to say to the reader, and the order in which you want to say it (selecting and ordering).
- What makes a good teacher?
- What makes a bad teacher?
- What do I dislike most of all in teachers?
- What do I like most of all in teachers?
- What do students think of teachers?
- How many students admire their teachers?
- I dislike teachers who are unprepared for their classes.
- I dislike teachers who don't know their subjects.
- Some teachers can't communicate in sign language.
- Some teachers sign so fast that you can't take notes.
- I dislike disorganized teachers, for all you get is a big jumble.
- Some teachers are closed-minded; they don't accept points of view different from their own.
- I dislike teachers who are aloof and distant; they seem detached from their students.
- I dislike teachers who have "pets," who show favoritism by giving certain students special consideration and privileges.
- Some teachers let their students walk all over them and don't maintain any order or discipline in the classroom, so nobody can learn anything.
Outline
- Introduction
- I dislike teachers who are closed-minded.
- I dislike teachers who have bad personalities.
- Body
- Some teachers are closed minded.
- They don't accept points of view different from their own.
- They don't allow free discussion of ideas in the classroom.
- They present only one side of an issue.
- Some teachers may have bad personalities.
- Such a teacher seems detached from his students.
- It's hard to like him or to work hard for him because you feel he doesn't care about you as a person . . .
- Some teachers are closed minded.
- Conclusion
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