Writing Process

Thesis Statements
Introductions & Conclusions

Prewrite
What is your purpose for writing?
How are you going to achieve this purpose?
Who is your reader?
Use journalistic questions
Freewriting
Cubing
Webbing/clustering
Listing
More prewriting questions http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/6
73/03/

Planning
Outline
2 types
Sentence
Topic
Should be balanced
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf
/20081113013048_544.pdf
USE THIS SOURCE TO HELP MAKE OUTLINES

Helps to keep track of large amounts of info

Helps organize ideas
Presents material in logical form
Shows relationships among ideas
Defines boundaries and groups

Prewriting
Planning
Rough draft
Revising/Proofreading
Peer Review
Final Copy
Grade
Mulligan
Start process over

Attempts to simplify complex combination of

skills
Reduces writers block
Engages diverse learners (think prewriting
preferences)
Focuses on progress not finished copy
Writing is recursive and never finished

Helps pinpoint specific writing problems in

organization, grammar, mechanics, etc.

Focus on one central point or issue

Tailor the scope of the issue to the length of
the paper

accurately forecast of whats to come

Preview the organization of the paper

Be too vague or general

Include more than you can reasonably
manage in a paper
Suggest a different focus or organization
than followed in the paper
Use clichd and excess wording like In this
paper I will discuss...

with a partner, use the topic sentences to

write a thesis statement
Write sentence on board

In groups, prepare to share the following with the

class about your assigned section:
Describe the method
What is this methods advantage?
What is this methods drawback?

1. directly stated thesis

1. restatement of thesis
2. Definition
2. personal challenge
3. Quotation
3. quotation
4. Anecdote
4. ironic twist/surprise obs
5. Arresting statement
5. arresting statement
6. Interesting details question
6. question

Introduction
Body paragraphs
Conclusion

Opener
Background information or other technique
continuation
Thesis statement

Topic sentence
Supporting detail
Quote from text
Explanation of how quote shows topic
Supporting detail
Quote from text
Explanation of how quote shows topic
Concluding sentence

Closure technique
Summarize points of thesis
Closing statement

Read chapter 21 (pgs. 395-421)

Complete MLA worksheets