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Understanding and Understanding and Producing Written Producing Written
EnglishEnglish
Understanding and Understanding and Producing Written Producing Written
EnglishEnglishLecture 11Lecture 11
Expository WritingExpository Writing
Two More Assignments• Expository Essay Outline• Plan for Future Improvement
– Work on reading and writing at least ½ hour a day
• Due Dates– Journals (End of Week 13)– Future Plan (End of Week 14)– Expository Essay Outline (End of Week 14)– Final Test (Week 13 Tutorials)
Expository Writing• Writing that explains• Writing that ‘exposes’ • Doesn’t have to be boring• ‘Creative writing’• Stories and descriptions• Examples of expository writing
from ‘real life’
Steps• Brainstorming subjects of interest• Evaluating possible topics• Considering purpose and audience• Narrowing down your topic• Gathering information and evidence• Deciding on a design• Formulating a ‘thesis’• Making an outline
Choosing a topic• What are you an expert on?• ‘Applying for the job’• Self-awareness and self-
confidence• Writing and the ‘real world’
Purpose and Audience• Whom are you writing for? • What do you want them to
think/do? • What image do you want them to
have of you?
Narrowing down your topic
• Biggest Danger: Trying to do to much• Exploring your subject• A journalist questions• Who, what, where, when, why, how? • Observing and describing• Thinking of stories
Gathering information• ‘Research’ • Observing• Talking to people• Introspection and remembering• Reading• Gathering things
Determining your design: Reasoning
• Start with your purpose!• What’s the problem?• Problem>Solution• What kind of pattern is most
suitable for solving my problem?
Design Patterns• Classification• To solve the problem, you need to
understand the different characteristics of the different kinds of X
• Compare/Contrast• To solve the problem, you need to
understand how X is different from and/ or similar to Y
Design Patterns• Cause/Effect• To solve the problem, you need to
understand what caused X or what the effect of X might be
• Process• To solve the problem, you need to
understand how X develops over time (or how to do X)
Design Patterns• Every essay has it’s own UNIQUE
design• Find the principle of organization
within your own ideas!!!
Dangers• Picking a fight• ‘As we know…’, ‘It has been said…’• Rhetorical Questions• Writing about ‘ideas’ rather than ‘real
things/people’• Using clichès• ‘Old hat’ and obvious statements• Stealing • Newspapers
Dangers
•Generalizations
Making an Outline• An outline is a THINKING DEVICE• 1-2 pages• ‘Full’ outline• Include
– Introduction– Main Points– Reasons/Evidence/Examples– Conclusion
Making an OutlineI. First major division
A. First secondary division 1. First supporting example 2. Next supporting example
B. Next secondary division.
Making an Outline• HOW TO ‘fen’ (Divide things up)• Parallelism• Subordination• Coordination• Division• See Developing an Outline
Writing Without Teachers
• ‘Guru Yoga’
Finding the Teacher Within
• Developing a self-reflective mind• Calming your ego• Cultivating confidence• Maintaining diligence
Making a connection to English
• Find a way to associate reading and writing with things you already do or already are interested in.
• Touching English every day
Know thyself!• Reflecting on difficulties
– Think– Write– Edit
• Gathering evidence of weaknesses– Error analysis– Reflecting on feedback from teachers and
peers
Making a Plan• Needs Analysis• Plan of action• Justification
Needs Analysis• What are my difficulties? (internal)• What are my behaviors? (external)• How can I change them?
– Reflection– Repetition– Information– Analysis
What kind of learner am I?
• Left brain or right brain?• Associations
– Visual, textual, auditory, tactile, conceptual?
Making a plan• Useful and realistic• Something for your reading• Something for your writing
Something for your Reading
• Reading magazines, novels and other books
• Re-reading things that you have read before
• Intensive reading• Analytical reading• Extensive reading
Something for your Writing
• Freewriting and diary keeping• Structured writing• Letter/email writing• Analytical writing• Silly writing• Song writing• Re-writing
Justification• Why have you chosen these
activities based on your needs analysis?
• What outcomes do you expect
Format• One page• Combination of point form and
paragraph• Write ‘Justification’ as a paragraph!• (to practice your paragraph
writing!)