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PowerEd Writing © 2011

The Writing Process

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PowerEd Writing © 2011

The Writing Process

• Stage 1—Prewriting• Stage 2—Drafting • Stage 3—Revising• Stage 4—Proofreading • Stage 5—Final Draft

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Prewriting

• Identify your reading audience, the person or people for whom you are writing.

• Define your purpose, or reason for writing.• Choose one topic to focus on in your writing.• Gather and organize information about your

topic.

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Drafting

• At this stage, you begin to turn your prewriting ideas into a smooth flowing work of writing.

• At this time, it is best to write freely, not worrying about errors in grammar or mechanics.

• If you find as you write that your prewriting plan does not work as you had hoped, you can go back to the prewriting stage and collect more information or make changes in your plan.

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Revising

• Review your essay for improvements – check the information, the organization, and the language in the draft to see if it is appropriate to your audience and to your purpose for writing.

• Make all necessary changes and improvements.

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Proofreading

• At this stage, correct errors in capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.

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This is where the writing for your This is where the writing for your standardized writing tests ends.standardized writing tests ends.

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Final Draft

• This is the final stage of the writing process.• The writer takes all the information and edit

marks from the stages three and four on the rough draft and writes the paper over.

• The writer will produce a new and final draft of the paper without mistakes.

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Expository & Persuasive Writing

Writing for Standardized Tests

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Expository Writing

Expository: • To explain• To inform• To clarify• To define• To instruct

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Expository Writing: • Gives information• Explains something• Clarifies a process• Defines a concept

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Expository Writing

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• ASK –How…Why…What…

are you explaining?

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Before you begin writing:

Be sure you completely understand the prompt!

Expository Writing

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Persuasive Writing• Presents the writer’s opinion• Informs the reader• Uses appeals to reason or logic• Uses appeals to emotions• Tries to change the reader’s attitude, belief, or

behavior

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Persuasive Writing

• Form an Opinion – Do you have a strong personal feeling about the topic being discussed? Choose one side – and stick to it!

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Before you begin writing:• Judge, evaluate or prove your

opinion. Once you have gathered several ideas, facts to back up your opinion - begin your writing.

• If your opinion is not a strong one (you do not have many facts to support it), modify or change your opinion so that you can support it effectively.

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Steps to Remember when Writing Expository & Persuasive Essays

1. Use a hook - “Grab your audience”2. Write a solid thesis statement. This is your road map to a

great essay.3. Use two or three supporting ideas. Try to incorporate at least

one character trait.4. Use high-quality transitional devices to move into each body

paragraph. 5. End each paragraph with a justifier sentence.6. Make sure your purpose for writing has been accomplished –

follow your thesis statement.7. Conclude…this is as important as your opening.8. Use the writing process… make sure you edit and revise

your writing!

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Rubrics

How your essays will be graded.

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A “6” Essay

• Nearly perfect• Shows superior understanding• Powerful organization• Noticeable coherence • Shows precision & sophistication

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A “5” Essay

• Solid• Shows accurate grasp of topic• Clearly organized• Shows maturity in writing

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A “4” Essay• Competent• Has commonplace understanding• Organized, but with some digressions

(departures from the topic)

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A “3” Essay• Shows limited understanding• Pedestrian (ordinary)• Unnecessary repetition• Interference of other ideas

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A “2” Essay• Insignificant handling of the topic

OR• Misunderstanding of concepts• Disjointed/unsupported

generalizations

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A “1” Essay

•Rambling• Incoherent•Confusing

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The Six Traits of Writing

The keys to unlock powerful writing

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What are these traits or keys?

• Ideas• Organization• Word Choice• Voice• Sentence Fluency• Conventions

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IdeasPowerful and Significant

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Ideas• It all makes sense.• I know this topic well.• My paper has a purpose.• I have included interesting details not

everyone would think of.• Once you start reading, you won’t want

to stop.

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Organization

Logical and Effective

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Organization

• It starts out with a bang.• Everything ties together well.• You can follow it easily.• At the end it feels finished and

makes you think.

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Word Choice

Specific and Precise

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Word Choice• This is the best way to say this.• My words make pictures in the reader’s mind. • I used words that are new ways to say

everyday things.• My verbs are powerful; my nouns and

adjectives are specific and precise.• Some of the words linger in your mind after

you read them.

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Voice

Individual and Appropriate

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Voice• It sounds like a real person wrote it.• You can tell that I care about this topic.• This is what I really think.• I want you to read this and

feel something.• You can tell that I am thinking

about my audience.

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Sentence Fluency

Smooth and Expressive

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Sentence Fluency • My sentences begin in different ways.• Some sentences are long; some are short.

• It sounds good as you read it.• My sentences have power and punch.• My writing flows easily from sentence

to sentence.

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Conventions

Correct and Communicative

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Conventions• I have used capitals correctly.• Periods, commas, exclamation marks, and

quotation marks are in the right places.• Every word is spelled correctly.• I indented each paragraph.• My spelling, punctuation, grammar, and

capitalization make my writing easy to read and understand.

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Hints to Raise your Writing Score

Writing for Standardized Tests

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Eliminate narrative elements from your writing:

I think… My first reason is…

Do you like… Hi, my name is…

Use Character Traits to help you develop a strong thesis.

Hints to Raise Your Writing Score

Begin your essay with a hook.

Grab the reader’s attention from the very start.

Incorporate significant quotes, specific examples, and valid reasoning into your essay.

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Hints to Raise Your Writing Score

Move into each body paragraph with mature transitional devices which clearly state the main idea of the paragraph.

At the end of each body paragraph, use a justifier sentence to restate your main idea.

Eliminate “dead” words from your essay – make your writing come alive!

It was very hot.

It was positively sweltering.

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Hints to Raise Your Writing Score

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Combine simple sentences with a semi-colon (;) transition and a comma (,)

I was out of milk. I went to the store.

I was out of milk; therefore, I went to the store.

Combine simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction and a comma (,)

I was out of milk. I went to the store.

I was out of milk, so I went to the store.

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Hints to Raise Your Writing Score

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Begin sentences in a different way than with a subject – utilize adverbs, gerunds, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses.

Suddenly, the room…

Running through the woods, …

In the morning, …

Although it was late, …