Dr博士. B’s Writing Workshop LAUSD.pptVIP

? 1999 - Dr. Carolyn O. Burleson - Instructor Dr. B’s Writing Workshop Step #1 -Prewriting Step #2 - Drafting Step # 3 - Revising Step # 4 - Proofreading Editing Step # 5 - Publishing Step #1 - Prewriting - This is whatever you do to generate ideas about which to write. It can include anything from... discussing daydreaming and recalling memories drawing brainstorming observing interviewing interpreting photos or artwork watching films or TV using writing templates/ frames or cloze exercises responding to literature role playing mapping listening to music researching information imagining (and many more) Step #2 - First Draft - Just start writing out your thoughts, and don’t worry about making or correcting any mistakes. It is important to get your ideas down on paper first. Then you have something with which to work. Corrections will come later.  Step #3 - Revision - Once you have written down your ideas, it is time to work with them and refine your writing to express what you have in mind more clearly. (Use the ARMS Revision Process.) Step #4 - Proofreading Editing - Finally, it is time to clean up errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage. Once all of this is done, write or type your final draft very neatly in presentation form. Step #5 - Publishing - Show the world your masterpiece! An essay has three main parts: Introduction - (or thesis statement) Here is presented ... a statement that you intend to prove or a question that you intend to answer in the body of your essay. The introduction tells what lies ahead and draws the reader in. It introduces your topic and gives just enough information to make the reader want to read the rest of your paper. Body - The body of your essay provides particular information about the subject matter stated in your introduction. This part consists of three or more paragraphs, each of which must contain: A topic sentence which focuses upon one aspect of your over-all theme or subject as st