Writing

Slide 1: Writing The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. - David Hare

Slide 2: Idea Collect Focus Order Draft Revise

Slide 3: Idea Others Personal

Slide 4: • Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them. -Robert J. Mckain

Slide 5: Collect yourself others

Slide 6: Focus

Slide 7: • The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. – Mary Heaton Vorse

Slide 8: illustration Order narration comparison/contrast process analysis persuasion cause/effect

Slide 9: Draft Ideas on paper Answering your questions Making sense of what you know

Slide 10: Revision audience clarity

Slide 11: • Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. – William Zinsser

Slide 12: Editing (p. 17) Grammar Words Punctuation

Slide 13: Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. - James Joyce