Do Now:

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Do Now

• Discuss with your partner which of the following
  sentences would be more effective in a school
  newspaper criticizing the food in the cafeteria.
  Why?
• First and foremost, the hamburgers that are sold
  in the cafeteria are dry in texture and cold to
  the taste.
• When I got to the cafeteria, I decided to try a
  sizzling hamburger, lean and juicy. Instead, I
  got a small dry patty so cold that the fat was
  congealed in tiny globs on top of the meat.

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The Writing Process
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Step 1 Prewriting

1. Assess the writing situation with SOAPSTone
2. Experiment with ways to explore your subject
3. Settle on a tentative focus
4. Sketch a tentative plan

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• Listing
• Clustering
• Asking questions
• Free writing

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• 1. LISTING Putting ideas down in the order in
  which they occur to youa technique sometimes
  known as brainstorming
• Here, for example, is a list of ideas for an
  essay on families
• Adoption
• The changing face of families
• Sibling rivalry

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• 2. Unlike listing, clustering highlights
  relationships among ideas.
• To cluster, write your topic in the center of a
  sheet of paper, draw a circle around it, and
  surround it with related ideas connected to it
  with lines
• Satellite ideas may lead to more specific
  clusters.

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• 3. By asking relevant questions, you can generate
  many ideas and survey your subject
• Who, what, when, where, why, and how?
• One student, writing about war protests, asked
• Who objected to the action?
• What were the objections?
• When were the protests voiced?
• Where were protests most strongly expressed?
• Why did protesters object?
• How did they make their voices known?

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• 4. Free writing is nonstop writing
• Focused free writing
• Forget about it!
• Diction
• Punctuation
• Grammar
• Spelling

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• Introduce readers to a place that you have
  visited. For example, you might take readers into
  an unfamiliar or exotic worlda scuba diving
  expedition, a spelunking adventure, or a boat
  trip through the Everglades. Or you could
  encourage readers to visit a favorite museum,
  historic district, or park (or discourage them
  from visiting a place you found disappointing).
  Or you could introduce readers to a foreign
  country or an ethnic neighborhood with which you
  are familiar.

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic for your writing?

• What next?
• 3. Settle on a tentative focus
• A dominant impression
• 4. Sketch a plan
• An informal outline, like a list (Spatial)
• 5. Rough out an initial draft
• Focus on ideas and organization

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Homework 4

• Once you have settled on a tentative
  focus/dominant impression for your description
  and sketched a plan for your writing, rough out
  an initial draft. Approximately 300-500 words
• Remember The first draft is the SLOPPY COPY.
• If you can say it, you can write it!