Good Writing. . .

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Good Writing. . .

• A plethora of thingsbut all good writing has the
  Five Ps in it!
• Process, passion, personality, persuasion and of
  course perseverance!

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Process

• The BEST way to make good writing GREAT is to
  give it more time
• How many times have you churned out a paper at
  the last minute?
• You are better than that!

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Ch, ch, chhhaanges

• Changes between drafts
• Type/write your paper
• Print your paper
• Make corrections with a pen/pencil
• Ask a friend/parent/teacher/neighbor to make
  corrections on top of yours

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Passion

• Make the reader feel something
• You are a real person with colorful ideas
• Produce a world for your reader with living color
• Dont get caught in the black dot prison
• Think of your favorite novel, play, or poem, why
  is it your favorite? Because the author engaged
  you. He/She made you feel something.

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Personality

• The unique way that you put the words to the
  paper, is your paper personality
• Diction picking those perfect words to say
  exactly what you mean.
• Syntax arranging those words effectively

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Persuasion

• Any type of writing attempts to persuadeeven if
  only on a minute level
• Epic poems
• Haiku
• Term papers
• Letters
• Advertising

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Perseverance

• Does not just happen
• Do not do it over night. . .
• Also known as revising and rewriting
• Stick to it and make it great

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Bold

• Kind of like Bold Spicy A-1 Steak Sauce
• Bold color
• Everything has already been written about ?
• But not the way that youll say it!

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Literary Analysis?

• Who invented this scary term?
• It is only your opinion
• What happens in a story plot
• Why it happens your personal vision or take on
  it
• How it happens Discussions on the craft of
  writing

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Know the rules of writing

• Know the rules, follow the rules
• Bend these rules
• Break these rulesonly if your reader knows it is
  intentional

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Titles

• Great titles are information for your reader
• Related to your thesis and topic sentences
• A great title makes your job as a writer EASY
• Two types of titles FACT CREATIVE

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Introductions

• How do you get started?
• Need to consider your audience
• WHAT will you say?
• HOW will you say it?
• Be willing to cut/edit maybe you were warming up?

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The three things that a good intro will always do

• Interest your reader
• Establish a voice
• Tell your reader WHAT you will talk about THESIS

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Body paragraphs

• If you are having a triple cheeseburger, these
  are the meat and cheese
• Your details and main points are hererelating
  back to your thesis
• EVERYTHING in your paper goes back to the thesis

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Conclusions

• Ending your writing is not always summing up
• Consider an echo of the thesis BUT also a
  philosophical or poetical ending
• Rhetorical question and/or fragments