COMMUNICATION AND WRITING STRATEGIES

VISUAL AIDS

• Eye catchers focus audience
• V.A.s enliven, enhance, emphasize
• Make V.A.s big and bold, so people can see.
• Don't pass V.A.s around...

REFERENCE TO AN OCCASION EVENT OR TIME

• Occasion: special ones, like holiday and birthday
• Event: sporting concerts, parties, plays feativals
• Time "Remember the time..." personal or historical

SUMMARIZING MAIN POINTA

• Essential facts
• Major points
• Paragraph= topic or clincher sentence
• 5 p essay= thesis statements or ( estamentos)
• Don't be redundant

USING STORIES

• Everyone loves a good story, so tell on!
• Some long and detailed...
• Some short and sweet...
• Anecdotes are tied bits

BRAINSTORMING

• Generating ideas
• Finding ideas
• Ways to brainstorm: lists, bubble maps, graphic organizers, drawing, talking, etc... researching, thinking

ASKING QUESTIONA

• Get audience thinking!
• Engage people
• If appropriate, let audience answer
• Rhetoric ?s= need not answer them because it is implied or obvious

APPEAL TO EMOTION

• Connect on an emotional level... feelings
• Sympathy and empathy
• Mad, sad, glad, fab

VOICE

• Person behind the work/writing
• Writer's personality and perspective
• Authentic, original, dynamic

USING QUOTATIONS

• Quote the words of others word for word, and use quotation marks...
• He/she said, " "
• Quote experts, friends, family, characters, etc...

MOTTOS AND MANTRAS

• Mottos and mantras are words to live by!
• Adores= wise sayings; proverbs
• Mottos and mantras are good to have; they keep us focused!

FACTS AND STATES

• Facts validate what you say or write. Cite sources for even more credit( validation)
• Stats= statistics
• Give your audience the number

CODE SWITCHING

• Charge the way you act, speak, or write depending where you are and who you are with
• Consider audience and purpose
• Formal vs informal:
• Professional vs personal
• School vs home

TRANSITION

• Transitions make language FLOW!
• Transitions appear EVERYWHERE
• Transitions= words, phrases, even whole sentence

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Get familiar with the subject or topic
• Acquire knowledge
• What's the history?
• The scoop?
• The 411?

SYMPATHY AND EMPATHY

• Be a sympathetic and empathetic listener.
• Sympathy- to feel sorry, even if you can't personally relate
• Empathy- to feel someone else's pain personally been there

MENTOR TEXT

• An example of good writing for writers
• Anchor text; model text
• Anything it brings to mind, or borrow a line
• Free flow... lets GO!

LITERARY ELEMENT

• Key words to use when reading and analyzing literature/literary works
• Plot
• Characters
• Setting
• Theme
• Point of view

POETIC DEVICES

• Poetry is a unique and original form of expression
• Poetic devices including:
• Alliteration and assonance
• Simile and metaphor
• Rhyme and rhythm
• Repetition

ALLUSION

• Refer to another work or person in your writing to add meaning
• Example: pop culture,historical person or event, novel, short story, poem, religious work, etc...

SIMILE AND METAPHOR

• Simile: compare two different things using "like" or "as"
• Metaphor= compare without using "like" or "as"
• Extended metaphor= longer and more in depth

CONCRETE POETRY

• A poem written in the shape of something
• Shape may be related to the content of the poem
• Shape poem

POINT OF VIEW (POV)