Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Chapter 5: Revising


Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Revising
This chapter will introduce you to valuable revising guidelines and strategies to use in all of your writing. You have to consider your overall approach. If your topic is worn-out, you have to cut your losses and find a fresh one. Also, you should to condense less important material and expand the important subject. Then, you examine your ideas and organize your writing by using an additional or different method such as compare-contrast, describe and classify etc. Mention that the reader trust writing that speaks in an informed voice and clear, natural style. In this section will provide a method that help you give clear, helpful and complete feedback such as OAQS Method is observe, appreciate, question and suggest to respond to your peer’s writing

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Chapter 4: Drafting


Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Drafting

This section provides information and advice about drafting for college-level essay. You have to remind who your readers are. You should review your task, thesis, and list your outline. When you focus your subject don’t forget to develop your main point by using your previously note, use your outline or charts to collect your ideas.

In the chapter four separate the writing be three parts of opening, middle and ending. For opening advise to reach readers in and narrow to a main point. At the middle use “scratch outlines” to show where you’re new idea may take you. Beside that there are 10 organizational techniques for writing supporting details for example analogy, cause-effect, chronological order, classification, compare –contrast, climax, definition, illustration, narration and process. Last, ending is your last change to remind your readers and convince them to accept what you’re writing by listing the benefits. You also should to refocus, unify and reinforce your message before you complete your essay.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Chapter 3: Planning


Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Planning

This chapter guides a student to plan their writing; after using reading, viewing, writing‘s technique from chapter one and two. In chapter three, you have to plan your essay with two basic thinking objectives. First, you should to focus on their writing. Second, you have to organize the supporting information. You need to know about you subject and continue collecting your sources of information. Beside that, you carefully review your initial notes. You must to focus a topic by limiting topic to specific focus and keep up the main point. Then, you arrange your information or research by using tools as basic list, topic outline, sentence outline and graphic organizer which will help you to organize and improve your essay. Also, these could be good reference for you, too
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Chapter 2: Beginning the Writing Process