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Writing Strategies

Published on Jan 18, 2016

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USING QUOTATIONS

  • Quote the words of others word for word.
  • Quote experts, friends family etc.
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REFERENCE TO AN OCCASION EVENT, OR TIME

  • OCCASION: holidays, birthdays, Easter.
  • EVENT: sporting, converts, plays, festivals.
  • TIME: "remember the time..."
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SUMMARIZING MAIN POINTS

  • Essential facts, major points.
  • Paragraph: topic or clincher sentence.
  • 5 P essay: thesis statements.
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ASKING QUESTIONS

  • Get audience thinking
  • Engage people
  • If appropriate let audience answer.
  • Rhetorical questions.
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USING SUSPENSE

  • Give hints and clues, but not all info.
  • Answer throughout.
  • Tease audience.
  • Be sure to give all info at the end.
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MOTTOS AND MANTRAS

  • Mottos and mantras are words to live by.
  • ADAGES: wise sayings; proverbs.
  • Keep people focused.
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ISSUING A CHALLENGE OR CALL OF ACTION

  • If you want somebody to do something, ask.
  • Challenge people
  • Call them to action
  • Be clear and specific about your request.
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THANK YOU STATEMENTS

  • People liked to be thanked
  • People like to feel appreciated
  • Thank people
  • Thank you statements work well in speeches.
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VISUAL AIDS

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

  • Everyone loves a good story.
  • Some long and detailed.
  • Some short and sweet.
  • Anecdotes are rid bits.
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FACTS AND STATS

  • Facts validate what you say or write.
  • Cite sources for even more credit.
  • Stats: statistics.
  • Give your audience the numbers.
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APPEAL TO SELF-INTEREST OF AUDIENCE

  • Talk directly to the people in the audience.
  • "You"
  • Things that motivate you: competition, love, fun, learning, choice, freedom.
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TRANSITIONS

  • Transitions make language flow.
  • Transitions appear everywhere.
  • Transitions: words, phrases, even whole sentences.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  • Get familiar to the subject or topic.
  • Acquire knowledge.
  • What's the history?
  • The scoop?
  • The 411?
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CODE SWITCHING

  • Change the way you speak or write.
  • Depend on where you are and who you are.
  • Consider audience and purpose.
  • Formal vs. informal
  • Professional vs. personal
  • School vs. home
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ABSTRACT

  • The art of summary
  • Summarize a piece or written work usually a book or article in a paragraph
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APPEAL TO MOTION

  • Connect on an emotional level... FEELINGS
  • In ELA8 we practice sympathy and embrace empathy
  • Mad, sad, glad, bad, rad
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TEXT CITATIONS

  • Copy the text word for word surround it with "quotation marks" and put the page number in (parenthesis)
  • Cite books, short-stories, articles
  • Explain the text quoted
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PARAPHRASE

  • In writing use your own words put still site the text.
  • Be sure to get it write otherwise you can start things.
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BRAINSTORMING

  • General ideas
  • Finding ideas
  • Ways to brainstorm, lists, bubble maps, graphic organizers, drawings, talking etc
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VOICE

  • Person behind the work/writting
  • Writers perspective and personality
  • Authentic, original, dynamic
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LITERACY ELEMENTS

  • Key words to use when reading and analyzing literature/literacy words
  • PLOT, CHARACTER, SETTING, THEME, POINT OF VIEW
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