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Easy steps to becoming a great writer on the
PENNSYLVANIA Writing Assessment
Expository
Persuasive
Descriptive
Narrative
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What is an expository essay? It

• Gives facts.
• Explains.
• Gives steps in a process.
• Presents ideas in logical order or correct
  sequence.

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What are the key words that show it is an
expository prompt?

• Most people enjoy some type of music. Think about
  your favorite type of music and explain why you
  like that particular type of music.
• Sometimes even the best drivers can get lost at
  times. Explain how you would direct a lost man to
  get back to the interstate highway from your
  neighborhood.
• Tell how to make a hamburger.

YOU WILL FIND THESE WORDS IN THE PROMPT
EXPLAIN or TELL HOW.
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What is a descriptive essay?

• Sensory images are used to describe what the
  writer sees, hears, smells, touches, and tastes.
• It paints a clear description of people, places,
  objects, or events.

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What are the key words that show it is a
descriptive prompt?

• Describe your bedroom. Imagine telling someone
  who has never visited you.
• There are many tourist spots to visit in
  Birmingham. Describe your favorite place to take
  visitors. You may want to tell what you will see,
  hear, smell and how you feel when you are there.
• Tell us what you see, hear, smell, taste, and
  feel on Christmas morning.

YOU MUST DESCRIBE OR TELL WHAT A PERSON
CAN SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE OR FEEL.
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What is a persuasive essay?

• You are asked to prove something.
• Give reasons why.
• Present arguments against your reasons. Show them
  to be false.
• Take a stand
• Ask or call for an action.

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What are the key words that show its a
persuasive prompt?

• Persuade a close friend to donate blood as part
  of a blood drive that your school is sponsoring
  for the Red Cross.
• Some of your kid brothers friends have taken up
  smoking and want him to start too. Write a
  convincing letter to your kid brother to not take
  up this habit.
• Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper
  telling why citizens in Birmingham should support
  a tax increase benefiting the local public
  schools.

YOU WILL NOTICE THE WORDS PERSUADE, CONVINCE OR
TELL WHY SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING.
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• Tells a story.
• Has chronological order and sequence of
  events.
• Has action.
• Has conflicts or problems.
• Has dialogue.
• Has characters.
• Has a definite beginning, middle and end.

• What is a narrative?
• A narrative

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What are the key words that show that these are
narrative prompts?

• You and your friend find a big box that is
  labeled Do Not Open. Your friend wants to open
  the box. Write a story about what happens next.
• Tell about a time when you made a serious
  mistake.
• Two little girls found a wallet on the sidewalk.
  Tell what happened next.

NOTE THE WORDS WRITE A STORY or TELL ABOUT
A TIME, or TELL WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
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Ready to write? First determine what type prompt
you have. You should read your prompt at least
three times.

• Expository--explain, tell how
• Descriptive--describe
• Persuasive---persuade or convince
• Narrative-- tell about a time when, tell a story

Use your scratch paper to brain storm and then
make an outline, or web, for a five paragraph
essay.
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Think Brainstorm-PACO

• P-What is your purpose?
• A- Who is your audience?
• C- Content --What are your ideas for details,
  facts, or reasons?
• O- Organization --Think how you want to
  structure your paper.

Jot down these ideas.
NOW START YOUR OUTLINE, OR WEB!
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First Paragraph
Second Paragraph
Third
Fourth
Fifth Paragraph
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FIRST PAPAGRAPH
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Lets prepare to write an essay!

• Heres the prompt.
• There are many good and bad things about being in
  the seventh grade. Explain what these things are.

What kind of prompt do we have?
Did you say expository? Youre right!
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Use your scratch paper

• Jot down a few transitions.
• What are transitions?
• Words or phrases that connect ideas or introduce
  the topic.
• Such as one, if, although, however, finally, in
  conclusion, first, second, next,
  additionally,consequently
• Make an outline or web. Develop a
• 1-3-1 plan. One Paragraph for intro-
• Three paragraphs for the body
• One paragraph for the conclusion.

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This is an important step! Dont try to write
your paper without doing an outline first.Why?!

• You will be graded on organization.

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Introductions for expository, descriptive and
persuasive essays should.

• Grab the readers attention.
• Or -- Let the reader know what youre going to
  talk about.
• Or--Show a plan for what youre going to be
  talking about in the three body paragraphs.
• Or --State what the audience will learn in this
  essay.

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Lets start on the body. Go back to your web or
outline for the second paragraph.

• Good Fun Things
• -Changing classes and teachers
• -Ms. Trunchbull Ms. Honey
• More Freedom
• - no line
• -See friends at lunch

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Look back at your outline for the third paragraph

• Bad things
• SAT Test
• -not like elementary school
• -compare to stale bread
• more test and harder
• -stress stomach hurts
• -math makes me sick

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Look back to your outline before writing the
fourth paragraph

• things that are both good bad
• Field Trips
• -miss school
• -might be boring
• PE
• -clothes sweat
• -fun to play and compete
• Homework
• -too much
• -pull up grades

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Now we are ready for the fifth paragraph the
conclusion which will summarize our main points
or key ideas in the body.

• Good and bad things
• freedom
• changing classes
• SAT test
• going to school longer
• tests
• Good and Bad
• Homework
• PE
• Fieldtrips

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Now Lets Look At Narrative

• Tell about a time
• Write a story
• Chronological sequence of events
• Dialogue
• Action
• Problems, conflicts
• Beginning, Middle, End

Do you think there is a love story here?
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Use this type of web for a Narrative
CLIMAX
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Some typical story transition words
Typically transitions are about time. After,
before, since, later

• One day
• Suddenly
• During
• Until
• Yesterday
• Meanwhile
• Afterwards
• While

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How to get your story rolling

• Begin by describing a character.
• LaDarius Smith, a star on our school basketball
  team, is very lucky.

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Get the story rolling with dialogue

• Whats that smell?
• the seventh graders complained.
• Finish your experiment and well head outside to
  get away from it, said their teacher.

What punctuation goes with the words said?
Did you say quotation marks? Youre right!
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Get the story rolling

• Provide a where with prepositional phrases
• Near the park
• Below the surface of the water
• In Chicago
• Throughout the crowded room
• Inside the lunchroom

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Can you tell which passage is narrative and which
is expository?

• Marty and I jumped to our feet. Ohhhh. I heard
  Marty let out a frightened moan.
• I started to back away. I thought maybe I could
  scramble out the other side of the car.
• But the snarling, growling monsters came at us
  from both sides. L-leave us alone. I stammered.
• A monster covered in tangled brown fur opened

• After Christopher Columbuss voyages to the New
  World, many Spaniards came to this continent to
  explore. One Spanish explorer was Ponce De Leon.
  He traveled through present-day Florida to find
  the Fountain of Youth. A second explorer,
  Coronado searched for the Seven Cities of Gold.
  He and his men traveled

Narrative
Expository
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Summary

• Identify your prompt
• Plan your work with an outline.
• Give your work a title with an action word.
• Grab interest in the beginning
• Build your paragraph with explanations, examples,
  evidence following the topic statement or key
  statement.
• Use strong action words
• Use vivid adjectives
• Use metaphors
• Finished? Reread reread to improve and
  clarify.