In this presentation you'll learn how to write effective paragraphs.

1. Writing Paragraphs

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3. 2 I’VE GOT PAPER. THE PHONE’S OFF THE HOOK. IT’S QUIET… I’M TRAPPED.

4. 3 I’M GOING TO SPEND MY WHOLE SUNDAY WRITING. AND FINALLY GET STARTED ON MY NOVEL..

5. 4 OKAY, WHAT’S THE THEME? WHERE’S THE CONFLICT?

6. 5 WHO ARE MY CHARACTERS? WHAT’S THEIR MOTIVATION? WHERE’S THE PLOT GOING?

7. 6 WHERE’S THE REMOTE?

8. ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING: SPA a SUBJECT that you know well and understand, a clear PURPOSE for writing, an AUDIENCE that you have identified.

9. SUBJECTfinding an angle by narrowing down a given subject ENTERTAINMENT Concert Rock Concert Rolling Stones ‘93 World Tour ENTERTAINMENT The Movies Movie History Early History Silent Film Era

10. PURPOSEWhy am I writing? to ENTERTAIN to INFORM to PERSUADE

15. AUDIENCEWho will read my writing?

17. The Writing Process Step One: Prewriting Thinking about your topic Step Two: Planning Organizing your material Step Three: Drafting Using your ideas and plans to write a first draft Step Four: Revising Improving the focus, content, and organization Step Five: Editing Checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word choices

18. Step One:PrewritingThinking about your topic Some methods: Brainstorming Clustering Freewriting Keeping a Journal

21. Step Two: PlanningOrganizing your material by preparing an informaloutline of ideas generated from prewriting the outline can be used as a guide to refer to while composing

23. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft Remember two points: 1. State your point, and 2. Support your point

25. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft A good Topic Sentence: States the topic of the paragraph Identifies the controlling idea Expresses the writer’s attitude about the topic

27. Let’s do something about it!

28. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft A bad Topic Sentence: Too general Too narrow Lacks a controlling idea

30. Let’s also do something about it!

32. Is that clear so far?

36. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft In addition, a good paragraph must have unity and coherence.

37. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft Unity All supporting sentences relate to the main topic and develop the controlling idea.

44. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft Coherence All sentences are arranged so that the ideas are in logical order.

45. Step Three: DraftingUsing your ideas and plans to write a first draft To achieve coherence: 1. A clear plan of arrangement Time order Spatial order Order of importance 2. Transitions to connect ideas