1. Essay 3
Pre-writing

2. Choose/narrow your topic Determine your
Prewriting
Choose/narrow your topic
Determine your
Audience
Purpose
Tone
Tense
Explore your topic
Make a plan

3. Choose/Narrow Your Topic
Your topic should pass the 3-question test:
Does it interest me?
Do I have something to say about it?
Is it specific?

4. Determine Your Audience
Your Audience is anyone who reads your writing.
Ask yourself:
Who are my readers?
What do my readers know about my topic?
What do my readers need to know about my topic?
How do my readers feel about my topic?

5. Audience continued. . . What do my readers expect?
Correct grammar and spelling
Accurate information
Logical presentation of ideas
Followed directions of the assignment!
Is research required?
Proper format used
Honest use of sources
Interesting or useful topic

6. Determine Your Purpose
Purpose is the reason you are writing.
Whenever you write, you always have a purpose. For example:
To compare/contrast
To inform the reader of something they don't know
To persuade the reader to think differently
To demonstrate a process
These purposes can be combined but one purpose is usually stronger than the others in an essay.

7. Determine Tone Tone is the mood or attitude you adopt as you write.
Serious or humorous?
Friendly or distant?
Academic or popular?

8. Determine Tense
Tense is the voice you use to designate the time of the action or state of being.
Present tense
Past tense
Future tense

9. Topics: World Problems
What are the world's biggest problems?
List on the board
Discuss

10. Pre-writing Techniques:
Explore Your Topic
Pre-writing Techniques:
Brainstorming/Listing
Freewriting
Clustering/Mapping
Questioning
Discussing
Outlining

11. Research at least 3 of the problems on the board.
Research Task
Research at least 3 of the problems on the board.
Chose one as a topic and be ready to discuss and outline on Wednesday (the 22nd)

12. Organizing
Writing and Revising
Your Outline

13. Make an Outline
Review, evaluate, and organize ideas written in your pre-writing.
Then:
Thesis statement
Support
Order
Structure

14. Thesis Statement
The thesis statement expresses the MAIN IDEA of your essay, the central point that your essay develops/supports.
It must make your solution CLEAR.
Write your thesis NOW
Discuss with group (professsor check)

15. Thesis continued. . . Your thesis SHOULD:
Accurately predict your essay’s main purpose
Be honest about your essay's content
Be direct/make an assertion
NOT be an announcement, statement of opinion, or statement of fact.

16. Basics of good support Relates to main point
Support continued. . .
Basics of good support
Relates to main point
Considers readers, i.e. provides enough information
Is detailed and specific

17. Order The order is the sequence in which you present your ideas.
What are the three types of ordering?
Time (chronological) order
Space order
Logical order (order of importance: least-to- most, most-to-least)