Ugly Baby Syndrome

What the writer did well What needs improvement What the next steps are

Although you might think editing and proofreading aren’t necessary since you were fairly careful when you were writing, the truth is that even the brightest people and best writers make mistakes when they write

TEAR,

“On one occasion, another EMT and I were held at gunpoint.” Consider a more precise example: “Twenty-first century emergency-services personnel face an ever-increasing number of security challenges compared to those working fifty to a hundred years ago.”

Topic sentence: summarizes the main idea of the paragraph; presents a claim that supports your thesis. Supporting sentences: examples, details, and explanations that support the topic sentence (and claim). Concluding sentence: gives the paragraph closure by relating the claim back to the topic sentence and thesis statement.

raphic illustrating the concept of support in arguments.

Chronological order → best for describing events Spatial order → best for describing places Order of importance →  best for describing objects and people

Chronological To tell a story or relate an experience To explain the history of an event or a topic To introduce the steps in a process Spatial To help readers visualize something as you want them to see it To create a main impression using the senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound) Order of Importance To persuade or convince To rank items by their importance, benefit, or significance

For example, when telling a story, it may be important to first describe the backstory.

Full of anxiety,

after/afterward as soon as currently during next now finally later until when/whenever at last before eventually meanwhile since soon still them while first, second, third

mother’s favorite color is red and you know when you were first learning to read that she had a red dress she wore often. It’s perfectly okay to say that your mother was wearing that red dress

But what if I don’t remember all the details?” That’s okay! Chances are that you won’t remember every word you spoke or what the weather was like, but it is important that you tell the emotional truth.

Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

evaluate the author’s point of view by thinking about his/her main idea and support. When you judge the author’s argument,

Freewriting

Prewriting Outlining the structure of ideas

Purpose. The reason the writer composes the paragraph. Tone. The attitude the writer conveys about the paragraph’s subject. Audience. The individual or group whom the writer intends to addres

waiting until the night before the due date, writing until far past her bedtime, getting only three hours of sleep, and turning in the assignment. That is not an effective writing process

ttitude toward a subject or another person. You may pick up a person’s tone of voice fairly easily in conversation. A friend who tells you about her weekend may speak excitedly

social networking site with the awareness of who will digitally follow the post. If you want to brag about a good grade, you may write the post to please family members. If you want to describe a funny moment, you may write with your friends’ senses of humor in mind. Even at work, you send e-mails with an awareness of an unintended receiver who could intercept the message.

(Never skip over a word if you don’t know its meaning. Look it up and jot a brief, understandable definition above your highlight.)

Planning strategies.To help you manage your reading assignments before you begin

a social group that communicates at least in part via written texts and shares common goals