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When I hotly plunge into writing, nothing bothers me.
Im always thinking what to write, what words are
better I try to follow grammar rules, but in general
that ends in failure.
Igor Ivanov
(Siberia)
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Generating ideas, planning,b and organizing your ideas
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II. Writing
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III.Revising and Editing
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Improving what eyou have written
PRE-WRITING
Pre- means before
Prewriting means the work done by the
writer before the paragraph is actually
written
Prewriting strategies includes the
decisions you make and the steps you
take (whether written or not) before
you write a draft of your paragraph
Three major decisions in pre-writing
1. Choose a subject that you are interested in and
know about
2. Choose an audience
3. Choose on a purpose : what exactly do you want
to communicate?
BRAINSTORMING
Brainstorming
What is it???
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Step III: (Combine into one paragraph)
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CLUSTERING
Narrowing the Subject to A Topic
A subject is a broad area of information.
You must narrow the subject to a topic in order to write
a single paragraph.
You must move from a general subject to a more specific
topic.
Audiences are more interested in details about a narrow
topic than a broad subject.
Narrowing a subject is a Good Writing
What are the steps?
1. Write your topic in the center of a piece of paper
and draw a circle around it.
2. Think about your topic and write any idea that
come to mind in circles around the main circle.
3. Connect these ideas to the center circle with a line.
4. Think about each of your new ideas, write more
related ideas in circle around them, and connect
them to their corresponding ideas with a line.
5. Repeat the process until you run out of ideas.
Example 1:
How to be a good
teacher Various kinds of
teachers
Teachers