salha space

What you have to Consider

• Subject
• Purpose
• Audience
• Research

Situation

• Entertain
• Pursuade
• Express
• Report
• Summarize
• Discuss
• Define
• Analyze
• Interpret

your audience

• Who are your readers?
• What are their expectations?
• What reaction do you want?
• How should you project yourself to my readers?

Invention

• Encourage readers to write down their ideas
• Free writing
• Brainstorming
• Writing Process
• Arrangement
• Style
• Delivery

Organization

• Control by main idea
• Focus statement
• Let the ideas shape your essay
• Statement
• What claim does your statement about your subject?
• How well does the statement convey your purpose and subject?
• Spatial: top to bottom
• Chronological: start to finish
• General to specific: broad then focused
• Drafting
• Start writing the parts that you best understand
• Work in a quiet place
• Start with the main ideas
• Be as fluid as possible
• Set aside enough time

Revising

•  Peer review and writing center
• Outline draft
• Ease the pressure
• Read the draft aloud
• Have someone else read your work
• Ignore content
• Read printed copy

• Convey an idea
• Events and conciquences
• Definition
• Extended explanations
• Use examples