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Writing Process

Subject : writing-skills
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1. The writer demonstrates similarities and differences between two or more subjects






2. Is to present another person's words or ideas as if they were your own






3. Be logical - enlist the emotions of the reader - establish credibility






4. Speech or written form in which one expresses thoughts and feelings with imagination and creativity






5. Can overstate or understate a fact; can cause skepticism; undermine the writer's authority; (key words: all - everyone - always - many - never - nobody); creates inaccuracies; can produce false statements






6. Often called composing; putting together the ideas to create a composition






7. When the essay supplies guideposts that communicate the relations among ideas






8. Who? what? when? where? why? how?






9. To express yourself - to inform a reader - to persuade a reader - to create a literary work






10. Gathering ideas onto paper in sentences and paragraphs






11. Is it sufficient? is it representative? is it relevant? is it accurate? are claims qualified?






12. Performing speeches - plays - videos; making a speech - participating in debate; creating booklets - brochures - family scrapbooks - or personal web pages; publishing a school newspaper - magazine - or portfolio; submitting work for publication beyon






13. Students learn rhetorical strategies to persuade others - such as by writing editorials - arguments - commentaries - and advertisements






14. Number - letters - indentations signaling groups and levels of importance; each level has more than one entry; all subdivisions are at the same level of generality; headings don't overlap; only first word (and proper nouns) of each entry capitalize;






15. Use of positive feedback or cutting wit to mock someone






16. The perspective from which a piece is written; first person - third person - omniscient - limited omniscient






17. Style - tone - point of view - sarcasm - counterpoints - praise






18. Age - gender - ethic backgrounds - political philosophies - religious beliefs - roles (student - parent - voter - wage earner - property owner - veteran) - interests hobbies - level of education - amount of general or specialized knowledge about the






19. Calls for you to read your final copy for typing errors or handwriting legibility






20. Subject - purpose - focus - specific language - briefly state subdivisions






21. Either to give your reader information or to persuade your readers to agree with you






22. Speech or written form that debates or argues a topic in a logical way






23. Also called clustering and webbing; more visual and less linear






24. This stage of the writing process involve gathering and selecting ideas; teachers can help students in several ways: creating lists - researching - brainstorming -reading to discover more about the author's style - talking - collecting memorabilia or






25. A pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information; they help the student convert and compress a lot of seemingly disjointed information into a structured - simple-to-read - graphic display; the resulting visual display conveys comp






26. Be specific - use facts/data/statistics - use/attribute quotes; quantify don't qualify; use of 'it seems -' try not to overstate situation - base writing on authority - break down the topic






27. A memory device to check for specific - concrete details: reason - examples - names - numbers - senses (sight - sound - smell - taste - touch)






28. Toulman's model of arguement






29. Speech or written form in which one sets forth to convince






30. The first sentence of the paragraph; it gives the reader an idea of what the paragraph is going to be about






31. The details are stated first - followed by a topic sentence






32. Used to show similarities and differences (key words: although - but - still - yet - compared with - as opposed to - different from - either/or - neither/nor - in common - similarly






33. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on






34. Salinger - J.D. 'The Catcher in the Rye.' New York: Little - Brown - and Company - 1945.






35. Listing all the ideas that come to mind associated with the topic






36. Facts - data - and opinions of others used to support assertions and conclusions






37. Use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






38. The writer describes a person - place - or thing and organizes it in the description in a logical manner






39. Speech or written form in which one explains or describes






40. Use of positive messages to recognize or influence others






41. Spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






42. Your assertion that conveys your point of view






43. Repeats another's words exactly and encloses them in quotation marks






44. The particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing






45. Writers can express their innermost thoughts - feelings - and responses through a variety of personal writing - including journal writing - diaries - logs - personal narratives - and personal essays






46. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals






47. Essays - research papers - biographies--these types of writing are most prevalent in middle or secondary level classrooms






48. A following of one thing after another (key words: after - next - afterward - during - preceding - finally - immediately - first - later - now)






49. The way the an author uses words - phrases - and sentences to formulate ideas






50. Chronological order - classification - illustration - climax - location - comparison - cause and effect