Notes and More Notes

Writing Process—

Invent: Think about what you’ll write about. Use a list, a web, an outline….
Organize: Set your ideas into a logical order.
Draft: Just follow your plan and get it done.
Revise: For better words, for flow, for sound, for look, for org.
Edit: For punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and etc.
Publish: This means it’s perfect.

6 Traits—

Voice: This is your style. It’s the unique way you sound.
Ideas: What your paper is about. Hopefully they are interesting
to others.
Conventions: Punctuation and grammar.
Organization: The shape or logical flow of your thoughts.
Word Choice: Picking the best word for the situation.
Sentence Flow: The way your sentences connect and sound together.

TAP—

Topic: What your paper is about.
Audience: Who your paper is for.
Purpose: Why you are writing it.



Common Grammar Errors—

Commas: In class notes.

Comma Splice: I love dogs, they are my best friends.

Run-on: I love dogs they are my best friends they love to eat food and I do
too.
That for Who: He is one that loves dogs. SB: He is one who loves dogs.

Verb Tense Agr.: They is my family. SB: They are…

Tense Shift: I was sad until I am happy.

PNA: John is like a good friend; they are always there for you.
SB: He is always….

Parallelism: I’m going to the store to eat, drink, and shopping. SB: to
eat, drink and shop.


Commas:

Introductory phrases/words like: In the meantime, Consequently,

Phrase: A group of words with no subject, no verb, or both.

Clause: A group of words with a subject and a verb.

Subject: What the sentence is about.

Verb: Action words.


Two types of clauses make up three main types of sentences:

Independent Clause: he walks his dog.

Dependent Clause: when he walks his dog Dep. Cl. Words: Since, when, while,
after, during, if, etc.



Types of Sentences:

Simple: Just an independent clause: He walks his dog.

Compound: Two independent clauses connected with ,but / , and/ , or / ; / He walks his dog, and he runs his dog.

Complex: An independent and a dependent clause in any order. If dep. goes first, then a comma. Just like the sentence you just read. It could be, Use a comma if a dependent clause comes first. Notice there is no comma that way.