Thursday, September 11, 2014

Notes from thursday-



Essay-  Try

Writing Process-  
Invent-   Journal, watch tv, read, talk, listen, surf web, surf.
Organize-   Make a logical plan to deliver info others will understand.
Draft-   First try-  Don’t worry about anything except for finishing.
Revise-   Make sure ideas are right, and make sense.
Edit-   Grammar.  Conventions…
Publish-  Publish means perfect.

6- Traits of okay writing.
Voice--- Unique Personality… Yours is yours-  not boring!
Ideas---  What it’s about.  The content.  The stuff….  Needs to be interesting TO OTHERS.  Learn/entertain/experience.
Conventions—grammar…
Organization—plan your work, work your plan.
Sentence Fluency—flow….
Word Choice—Right word, right time.

Topic-    Ideas—what it’s about.
Audience-  who it’s for—a professional audience
Purpose-     Why you’re writing….

Essay-
Introduction
Body paragraphs
Conclusion….


Narrative essay--   Telling a story from our point of view.  “I”

Most Likely Mistakes

Fragment-          I went to the store and I bought something that.
Comma splice-   I went to the store, I bought something.
Run on-               I went to the store I bought something.
Parallelism-        I love to walk, climb, and running.
Verb Tense Agreement-  She love to walk.
Pronoun Antecedent Agreement--  People are who and things are that.  Ex-  Jon is someone that……
Tense shift--    I love to go to the park and walked my dog.



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