The Writer
Why Do you write?
-To share.
-To persuade people of your opinion.
-To inform.
-To enjoy yourself.
How can you find ideas?
-By observing your enviroment.
-By reading.
-By wacthing in videos or tv.
How Can You Keep Track of Ideas?
Start the idea in a notebook or a personal journal and start writing in this notebook.
How Can you Get Started?
Organize your time but if the idea come up in any time write it down the moments that you are inspired are the gratefull ones.
How Do You Work with others?
Shares your idea and let the others shares them idea too and also shares your opinions a listen to the others opinion.
Types of writing :
Genres and forms:
Genres are types, or categories, of writing.
1. -Each genre has a specifc purpose.
Example:
The goal of teacher is to teach.
2. -Each genre has specifc characteristic.
Example:
Short stories,have characters a setting and a plot.
Forms: are subcategories of genres plus some unique characterictics.
Example:
A mistery is a form of short story. In addition to plot,characters, and setting, it has a mystery to be solved.
Selecting Genres
-To entertain.(short story ot humorous essay).
-To describe an emotion.(poem)
-To persuade.(editorial or a persuasive essay).
Nonfiction Narration:
Nonfiction narratives are any kind of literary text that tells a story about only real people,events,ideas and also personal experiences and how they have learned and what they have learned.
Types of nonfiction narrarion: (personal narratives, biographical narratives, blogs, diary and journal entries, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, reflective essays.)
Fiction Narration:
Fiction narratives are literary texts that tell a story about imagined people events, and ideas. Fiction can also include real places and real people but fakes events.
Types of Fiction narration: (realistic fiction , fantasy , historical fiction , mysterys stories , myths and legends, science fiction, tall tales etc...)
Exposition :
Is writing that seeks to comunicate ideas and information to specific audiences and for specific purposes.
Analytical Essays:
An analytical essay explores a topic by supplying relevant information in the form of facts, examples, reasons, and valid interferences to support the writer's claims.
-introductory paragraph.
-body essay .
-concluding paragraph.
There are more types of essays like essays to compare informatipn with other and essays that look for the cause and the effect of the topic.
Persuasion:
In types of writing,persuasion it means to persuade someone of there opinion that you have wrote.
The Writing Process
In this chapter you would learn how to evaluate your ideas and organized correctly.
Rubrics, how to use them and writing traits:
Rubrics are for the evaluation what your writing. A rubric allows you to score your writing on a scale for each trait.
Example:
Writing traits are what we evaluate about tbe writing like (organization,voice,word choice,sentency fluency, conventions)
Sentences, Paragraphs, Compositions.
A sentence is a group of words with two main parts: a subject and a predicate.
A paragraph is built from a group of sentences that share a common idea and work together to express that idea clearly.
Combine sentences :
Putting information from one sentence into another can make a more powerful sentence.
Example:
Before: video games can be effective educational tools. They can help teach many subjects.
After: video games, which can help teach many subjects, can be effective educational tools.
Use Compound Elements :
You can form compound subjects,verbs or objcts to help the flow.
Before :
Students can play video games on their laptops. Students can also play video games on their cell phones.
After:
Students can play video games on their laptops and cell phones.
Form Compound Sentences:
You can combine two sentences into a compound sentence.
Before:
Video games can motivate students to learn. They must have educational value.
After:
Video games can motivate students to learn, but they must have educational value.
Use Subordination
Combine two related sentencds by rewriting the less important one as a surbordinate clause.
Before:
Video games can take time away from exercise. That can be unhealthy.
After:
Video games can take away from exercise,which can be unhealthy.
Composition:
To build your composition you need only 3 steps:
1- introduction:
The introduction of a composition introduces thw focus of the composition.
2-body:
Just as supporting statements develop the ideas of a topic sentence,the body of a composition develops the thesis statement and main idea.
3-conclusion:
As the world implies, the conclusion of a composition concludes or ends a piece of writing.
