2. Choose your topic Identify your audience Identify your purpose Gather details to support your topic

3.  ANYONE who is going to read your work  Knowing your audience determines: a. Information included b. Word choice c. Details (Will you need to convince your audience?) d. Formal/informal

4. What is the PURPOSE of your writing? a. Inform b. Explain c. Entertain d. Persuade These are the FOUR purposes.

5. SUMMARY: Knowing your PURPOSE determines a. Information included b. Word choice c. Details (Will you need to convince your audience?) d. Formal/informal

6. SUMMARY: What do we do?  Choose your topic  Identify your audience  Identify your purpose  Gather details and ideas to support your topic

7.  Free writing  Brainstorming  Clustering  Asking questions/research

8.  Turn ideas into sentences  Decide on order of details  Your writing begins to look like a formal piece of writing

9.  The main point the paper is trying to prove or support 1.Topic sentence –define 1.Thesis statement (or CLAIM) -- define

10.  Formal?  Informal? Often determined by PURPOSE

11.  Chronological order  Spatial order  Compare and contrast  Emphatic order (Order of importance)  Pro and Con (lists)

12.  CONTENT LEVEL CHANGES  Unity? Does it all stay on topic?  Coherence? Does it flow? Why is this step important?

13.  MECHANICS: details  Spelling  Grammar  Punctuation  Capitalization Why is this step important?

14.  What is presenting?  What you do for a  Written copy?  Oral presentation?  Power Point? Why is this step important?

15.  CYCLICAL --revisit each stage as needed.  It in NOT a linear (straight line) process.

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