2. Brainstorming: is an informal way of generating
, focusing, and organizing ideas for an essay , a
report, or topics to write about.
Good writers think of & write down ideas that can
use.
Why do we need it?
We need it because:
It’s the best way to collect your thoughts.
It’s helpful for organization.
It can help you choose a topic, and develop it.
3. Free writing
Think about the topic.
Choose a title ,
Write your title at the top ,
Write Whatever comes into your mind– even if it
doesn’t have to do with the topic.
4. Editing
After you brainstorm, you need to go back and see
which ideas you can use by :
Underlining or highlighting the good idea.
Crossing out ideas that are not related to your
topic or that you don’t want to use.
5. Capitalization Rules for Titles:
Capitalization Rules for Titles:
Always capitalize the first letter of the first word .
Do not capitalize articles (a, an, the)
Do not capitalize coordinating conjunctions (and, but,
or, etc.)
Do not capitalize prepositions (on, at, in, off, etc.)
6. Descriptive writing
Gives the reader or the listener some idea of how
some thing looks, sounds, smells, or feels.
it is used when you are going :
To write a narrative essay.
To write a descriptive essay.
7. When you write a formal essay, you should not start a sentence
with “And”, “But”, or “So”.
When you write, you need to avoid sentence
fragments.
A “fragment” is a “piece” of something, so a
sentence fragment is just a piece of a sentence –
not a complete sentence.
A complete sentence should have a subject (what is
the sentence about?) and a predicate (what does
the subject do?).
Because I was tired. (sentence fragment)
I went to sleep because I was tired. (complete
sentence)
8. A run‐on sentence: is when two complete sentences
are put together without correct punctuation (a comma or
period, for example). You should avoid run‐on sentences
when you write!
Example:
We went to the beach it was a lot of fun. (run‐on
sentence)
We went to the beach. ,and It was a lot of fun.
To correct this, youcan add a period Or you can add a
conjunction (and / but / so / because) between the
sentences.
Note: With “and/but/so” you need to use a comma (,), but
with “because” you usually don’t need a comma.
9. We went to the beach, and it was a lot of fun.
(Right!)
We went to the beach because it is a fun place to
go. (Right!)
John is sick he hasn’t gone to the doctor. (run‐on
sentence)
John is sick, but he hasn’t gone to the doctor.
(Right!):
When you use “and” to connect two ideas
without a comma remove the subject and verb
from the second sentence.
Jane is dancing and sing a song. (Wrong!)
Jane is dancing and singing a song. (Right!)
