Use this Page as a Reference for the Writing Process:
Step 1: Pre-writing THINK
Step 2: Drafting WRITE
Step 3: Revising MAKE IT BETTER
Step 4: Proofreading MAKE IT CORRECT
Step 5: Publishing SHARE THE FINISHED PRODUCT
Step 2: Drafting WRITE
Step 3: Revising MAKE IT BETTER
Step 4: Proofreading MAKE IT CORRECT
Step 5: Publishing SHARE THE FINISHED PRODUCT
Final Essay Checklist
Download the Final Draft Checklist below. All materials on the checklist must be completed and submitted together in order to receive ANY credit. Partial submissions will not be accepted.
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Writing a Concluding Sentence
Download the document below for a description on writing a concluding sentence for each of your paragraphs:
Writing a Concluding Sentence | |
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Improving your Topic Sentences and Supporting Details
Download the document below to review the and improve on your topic sentences and supporting details:
Topic Sentences and Supporting Details | |
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Peer Review Sheet
Download the document below to peer review your paper:
Peer Editing Sheet | |
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The First Draft Requirements
Requirements:
Below is the Final Draft essay grading rubric:
**these standards have been taken and modified from the grading rubric used by state testing officials**
- 5 paragraphs (Introduction, 3 body paragraphs, conclusion)
- Handwritten
- Due: Tuesday, October 22nd
- (Generating Ideas, cluster web, Outline) <<<-These three pre-writing steps will be due with the final draft after revision.
Below is the Final Draft essay grading rubric:
**these standards have been taken and modified from the grading rubric used by state testing officials**
Essay Rubric | |
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Writing an Introduction and Conclusion
Download the document below for a description and examples for writing an introduction and conclusion:
Writing an Introduction and Conclusion | |
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Writing an Outline with a Controlling Idea
Below you fill find the blank outline template:
Essay Outline | |
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The document below is a completed sample outline for clarification:
Example Essay Outline | |
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Considering Your Audience
For writing, you must consider your audience- the person who will read what you write. Unless you are writing in your journal or taking notes in class, you are always writing for a particular audience. It may be your teacher, a friend or your parents. Knowing your audience gives you important information including the audience's interest, the audience's prior knowledge, the audiences vocabulary, and what the audience needs to know. This information helps you write more effectively, especially when you are writing to persuade or to explain why.
Download the document below, then read and respond to the questions that follow.
Download the document below, then read and respond to the questions that follow.
Identifying Your Audience | |
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Pre-Writing
The first step in the writing process is called "pre-writing." During the pre-writing process, you will be developing a topic, considering your audience, brainstorming ideas and doing research (depending on the essay).
Pre-Writing: Topic Selection
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Methods for Topic Exploration:
1. Brainstorming:
Take one of your topics, and write it down on a piece of paper.
Then begin by writing down words or sentences related to that topic and see how much information you can generate.
1. Brainstorming:
Take one of your topics, and write it down on a piece of paper.
Then begin by writing down words or sentences related to that topic and see how much information you can generate.
Example:
Topic: Does television affect young children positively or negatively?
What's so bad about television?
learn new information
kids are quiet
kids need exercise
they should be out playing
safe places to play?
educational programs
Barney, Sesame Street, NYPD Blue
see lots of commercials!
kids like TV
Too many hours in front of the TV
tv in violent
sitting around playing video games
waht if parents aren't home
kids watch too much TV
What's so bad about television?
learn new information
kids are quiet
kids need exercise
they should be out playing
safe places to play?
educational programs
Barney, Sesame Street, NYPD Blue
see lots of commercials!
kids like TV
Too many hours in front of the TV
tv in violent
sitting around playing video games
waht if parents aren't home
kids watch too much TV
2. Freewriting or "Think out loud"
For this option, write your topic at the top of the paper, then begin writing a paragraph without thinking. See what kind of thoughts or ideas come to your mind.
Example:
Topic: School Uniforms
School uniforms are stupid. I want to wear what i want to wear. Can you see me in one of those silly skirts? Those colors are always so bad. Who would want uniforms anyway? How much do they cost. I don't know what to write. School uniforms stifle student individuality. Everyones an individual we don't need to look the same. What are the benefits. As long as clothing is clean and respectable, wy do we all have to wear the same thing? Think of the added expense of buying two sets of clothes. Clothes that can only be worn at school and clothes at home, I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those school uniforms outside of school.
For this option, write your topic at the top of the paper, then begin writing a paragraph without thinking. See what kind of thoughts or ideas come to your mind.
Example:
Topic: School Uniforms
School uniforms are stupid. I want to wear what i want to wear. Can you see me in one of those silly skirts? Those colors are always so bad. Who would want uniforms anyway? How much do they cost. I don't know what to write. School uniforms stifle student individuality. Everyones an individual we don't need to look the same. What are the benefits. As long as clothing is clean and respectable, wy do we all have to wear the same thing? Think of the added expense of buying two sets of clothes. Clothes that can only be worn at school and clothes at home, I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those school uniforms outside of school.
3. Clustering
This is probably the most familiar one to you. Begin by putting your topic in the center of your piece of paper, then branch off the center circle with some supporting topics or ideas. Off of those supporting ideas, branch off with more details, until you've exhausted your topic.
This is probably the most familiar one to you. Begin by putting your topic in the center of your piece of paper, then branch off the center circle with some supporting topics or ideas. Off of those supporting ideas, branch off with more details, until you've exhausted your topic.