Essay-  Try

Writing Process-  

Invent-   Journal, watch tv, read, talk, listen, surf web, surf.

Organize-   Make a logical plan to deliver info others will understand.

Draft-   First try-  Don’t worry about anything except for finishing.

Revise-   Make sure ideas are right, and make sense.

Edit-   Grammar.  Conventions…

Publish-  Publish means perfect.

6- Traits of okay writing.

Voice--- Unique Personality… Yours is yours-  not boring!

Ideas---  What it’s about.  The content.  The stuff….  Needs to be interesting TO OTHERS.  Learn/entertain/experience.

Conventions—grammar…

Organization—plan your work, work your plan.

Sentence Fluency—flow….

Word Choice—Right word, right time.

Topic-    Ideas—what it’s about.

Audience-  who it’s for—a professional audience

Purpose-     Why you’re writing….

Essay-

Introduction

Body paragraphs

Conclusion….

Most Likely Mistakes

Fragment-          I went to the store and I bought something that.

Comma splice-   I went to the store, I bought something.

Run on-               I went to the store I bought something.

Parallelism-        I love to walk, climb, and running.

Verb Tense Agreement-  She love to walk.

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement--  People are who and things are that.  Ex-  Jon is someone that……

Tense shift--    I love to go to the park and walked my dog.